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Cuban Missile Crisis U S S R
2,004 words... R. was putting down unrest in its Eastern European satellites, trouble was stirring in the Middle East. The United States feared Communist expansion in that area. Both the U. S. S. R. and the West sought Egypt's support by offering aid for its development plans. Each side offered to help build the Aswan High Dam. After Egypt courted Communist aid for the dam and bought Communist arms, the United States and the United Kingdom canceled offers to help with the project. President Gamal Abdel Nas...
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U S S R Cold War Tensions
1,923 words... in 1965. China threatened India and aided Pakistan. Khrushchev fell from power in October 1964. The new Soviet leaders tried to heal the split with China. But Premier Aleksei N. Kosygin and General Secretary Leonid I. Brezhnev were unable to reunite the Communist bloc. In 1966, China launched a "cultural revolution. " One aim of this revolution was to eliminate all Soviet influence from China. The Chinese accused the Soviet Union of betraying world Communism and being secret allies of the Un...
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Cold War Tensions House Un American Activities Committee
2,073 wordsThe Cold War influenced nearly all aspects of American political and cultural life from 1946 -- when Winston Churchill announced the descent of an Iron Curtain separating the Soviet Union and her Eastern European satellite states from the non-communist West -- to the disintegration of the Soviet Union in 1991. The influence on the American film industry was deep and long-lasting. Hollywood became a highly visible target of the House Un-American Activities Committee during the late 1940 s and 195...
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Cold War Tensions National Security Council
2,444 wordsI do Eisenhower Eisenhower I do not want to be president of the United States, and I want no political office or political connection of any kind, said General Dwight David Eisenhower to a stream of prominent visitors to Supreme Headquarters Allied Powers, Europe, near Paris during the last half of 1951. Despite Eisenhower's often-repeated declaration against holding political office, American business leaders and politicians continued to urge him to run for the White House. They told him that t...
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Lee Harvey Oswald Nuclear Test Ban Treaty
3,169 wordsJohn Fitzgerald Kennedy, (1917 - 1963), 35 th PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES The youngest ever elected to the presidency and the first of the Roman Catholic faith, John F. Kennedy won the ELECTION of November 1960 by a razor-thin margin, but after taking office he received the support of most Americans. They admired his winning personality, his lively family, his intelligence, and his tireless energy, and they respected his courage in time of decision. During his relatively brief term of office ...
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