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Missiles In Cuba Bases In Cuba
1,299 words
John F. Kennedy's greatest triumph as President of
the United States came in 1962, as the world's two
largest superpowers, the Soviet Union and the
United States, edged closer and closer to nuclear
war. The Soviet premier of Russia was caught
arming Fidel Castro with nuclear weapons. The
confrontation left the world in fear for thirteen
long days, with the life of the world on the line.
In 1962, Nikita Khrushchev, Premier of the Soviet
Union, employed a daring gambit. He secretly
ordered the pla...
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Foster Dulles Cold War
1,256 words
H. W. Brands claims that, " the burden of
responsibility for the cold war rested on the
United States, the more powerful of the two
countries, and the one with less to fear from the
other. " (The Devil We Knew: Americans and the
Cold War, 1993) This statement stems from the idea
that America had no evidential basis for a foreign
policy that called for a containment of Soviet
expansion. Brands is claiming that the US had less
to fear because an aggressive foreign force did
not surround them. Howe...
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38 Th Parallel End The War
1,459 words
... ous Manchurian region. The Chinese troops lay
coiled like a viper, and as the UN. pushed
forward, they encountered Human Waves of Chinese
troops. Combined with poor equipment and the
brutal North Korean winter, the UN. forces had no
choice but to retreat. The allies retreated back
130 miles to the North Korean border. Along with
the UN. retreat, followed millions of North Korean
refugees trying to escape Chinas assault. The
situation was described by one G. I. , There were
literally millions...
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Cuban Missile Crisis At The Brink Of Abyss
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The Cuban Missile Crisis was a major confrontation
between the United States of America (U. S. A) and
the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (U. S. S.
R). This major confrontation was in 1962 over the
issue of Soviet supplied missile installations in
Cuba. Regarded as the worlds closest approach to a
nuclear war, the Cuban Missile Crisis was a brief
encounter during the Cold War in which the United
States, Cuba, and the Soviet Union were engaged in
a potentially dangerous confrontation that cou...
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Second World War First World War
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Adolf Hitler, aka 'Der Fhrer' ('The Leader'). Was
born in Germany. He was directly responsible for
the deaths of 66 million world wide, during the
second World War. Following the First World War,
the Treaty of Versailles penalizes the defeated
Germany, annexing land, imposing large war
reparations, limiting the size of the army and
blaming Germany and Austria-Hungary for starting
the conflict. The new German government, a
coalition of left-leaning and centrist parties,
attempts to rebuild the co...
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Kim Il Sung 38 Th Parallel
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The Korean War For hundreds of years Korea was
dominated by the Chinese empire. After Japan was
defeated by the allies in WW II. , Korea became
occupied by the Russians in the North and the
Americans in the South. Both the U. S. and the
Soviets realized that Korea was a strategic
country. It was important to occupy because it lay
between China, Japan, and the Soviet Union. North
and South Korea were divided by the 38 th
parallel, it split the country into two regions.
Russia and America became p...
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Truman Doctrine Cold War
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The second part of the 20 th century was marked by
the unprecedented confrontation of two
superpowers, the USA and the USSR known as the
Cold War. The entire world was involved into that
confrontation balancing between the global
military conflict and the fragile peace. The
consequences of the erroneous concept enemies of
my strategic enemy are my friends have been
observed now from the terrorist acts in Moscow up
to the 9 / 11 tragedy in the USA. If it is assumed
that the politics is the concen...
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Russian Civil War U S S R
1,220 words
Sources of Bolshevik Victory in the Revolution and
the Civil War While speaking about the political
history of the U. S. S. R. it is necessary to say
about economic, social, or cultural concerns. They
help to understand the impact of Party-State
decisions. Richard Sakwa in his work "The Rise and
Fall of the Soviet Union: 1917 - 1991 " says that
the history of the Soviet Union was the history of
a struggle of the Party leadership about the
accommodation of Leninist theories; the problems
of multi...
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Running Head Cold War Submarines
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Running Head: Cold War - Submarines Cold War -
Submarines (Authors Name) (Institution Name) Cold
War Submarines The period between 1945 and until
the breaking down and collapsing of the Soviet
Union in 1991 is considered as a heated
competition between the Soviet Union and with
specificity with the United States. This period of
competition is known as the Cold War because both
the countries were in the continuous process of
preparing for war with each other. However,
luckily for the world and as...
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Running Head Global Explorer
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Running Head: Global Explorer Global Explorer
(Authors Name) (Institution Name) Global Explorer
MAD was the very apt abbreviation for the words
mutual assured destruction doctrine during the
cold war in which the opposing sides of the United
States and Russia would effectively annihilate
each other. This doctrine was based on the theory
and military strategy through which the full range
of nuclear weapons of both sides would be used
against each other and this worked as a deterrence
for the prev...
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The Cold War And New World Order
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The Cold War and the New World Order (1) It would
not be an exaggeration to say that Gold War served
as metaphysical foundation, upon which
international relations were based, from the time
of Churchill's famous Fulton speech in 1946, to
1991, when Soviet Union has painlessly ceased to
exist. One month prior to committing suicide in
his bunker, Hitler had prophesied: With the defeat
of the Reich and pending the emergence of the
Asiatic, the African and, perhaps, the South
American nationalisms, ...
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For The Countries Of Former Eastern Block Past
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For the countries of the former Eastern block the
past is very much the present. But how do the
citizens of the post soviet countries deal with
their monstrous past? Do they try to rewrite their
history into something more presentable? Or do
they confess their mistakes and try learning on
them? Tina Rosenberg, being a freelance
journalist, has traveled through three former
Soviet countries of the Eastern Europe, namely
former Czechoslovakia, Poland and former Eastern
Germany, in order to study t...
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Five Year Plans First World War
2,305 words
Bolshevik revolution The Bolshevik revolution
occurred in November of 1917, its aim was to
create a workers paradise and a dictatorship of
the proletariat. By 1930, the Bolsheviks had
imposed a totalitarian rule over Russia. This
period can be divided into two distinct eras.
Firstly, there was the period from 1917 - 1924,
which included the decision to seize power, the
civil war and a consolidation of power under the
new economic policy. The second period occurred
after Lenin's death, where oppo...
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World War Ii Gross National Product
1,230 words
Cold War paper The role of America at the end of
World War II was where the origins of policing the
world originate. America had been engaged in a
very costly war in terms of dollars as well as
lives. But, despite the expense the United States
came out of World War II better than any other
nation that was involved. The Second World War was
a battle between the Allied and Axis Powers. The
Allied Powers consisted of the United States,
Great Britain, the Soviet Union, China, and
France. This war wa...
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Foster Dulles Cold War
1,257 words
Hist. 5240 james martel H. W. Brands claims that,
the burden of responsibility for the cold war
rested on the United States, the more powerful of
the two countries, and the one with less to fear
from the other. (The Devil We Knew: Americans and
the Cold War, 1993) This statement stems from the
idea that America had no evidential basis for a
foreign policy that called for a containment of
Soviet expansion. Brands is claiming that the US
had less to fear because an aggressive foreign
force did not...
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Eastern European Countries World War Ii
1,586 words
The Cold War was a conflict of values and
ideologies between the United States and the
United Soviet Socialist Republic (USSR). Western
countries wanted the liberated states of Eastern
Europe to be ruled with a democratic government
and a capitalist economy. Joseph Stalin felt
entitled to rule the Eastern European countries it
occupied in World War II. Stalin wanted these
countries to be used as a buffer to protect USSR
boarders. Communist governments in these Eastern
European countries would be...
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Spread Of Communism Soviet Union
1,134 words
Containment Policies America s approach to contain
the threat of communism As it became increasingly
clear that there would be a competition for power
in the new world order, the United States and
Russia formulated foreign polices designed to
limit the expansion of the other. In the case of
the United States the policy was known as
containment. Simply put it was the goal of the US
to contain the spread of Communism. Containment of
the Soviet Union became American policy in the
postwar years. Geo...
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Soviet Union Cuba Military
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The Cuban Missle Crisis The Cuban Missile Crisis,
which Cubans refer to as the Caribbean Crisis, was
the result of the escalating tensions of the
deepening Cold War. The Soviet Union felt severely
threatened by the American deployment of
intermediate-range ballistic missiles on the
Turkish border with the USSR. To the Soviets, the
Bay of Pigs fiasco provided an opening for them to
establish bases at equally close range to the US,
which could then be used as bargaining chips for a
reduction of US...
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U S Soldiers Reign Of Terror
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The Battle of Stalingrad and the Battle of
Normandy were two vital battles in World War II.
Stalingrad was the site of a critical WWII Soviet
victory that terminated Germany? s advance to the
east. Peaceful Normandy took it? s place in
history as the starting point in the triumphant
march across Europe. Both these intense events
were extremely significant in the outcome of the
second world war. After the Germans failed to win
the war totally in 1941, they decided to start a
fresh effort, and hop...
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Major Event Takes Place
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Compare 038; Contrast Of Hiroshima And Red
Compare 038; Contrast Of Hiroshima And Red
Storm Rising There are many obvious differences in
Hiroshima, by John Hersey, and Red Storm Rising,
by Tom Clancy. Many of these differences come
simply because of the different locations. And
still others come because of the different writing
styles. But most of the differences comes as a
result of the situations, or plot, of each book.
The first, and arguably largest, is that Hiroshima
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