The Hunt for Red October(1990)
A. Summary
REd October is a hypothetical movie about a soviet defector named Marko Ramius. It was based on a Tom Clacy novel. Ramius was a Lithuanian submarine commander for the soviets. The red october is an expiramental nuclear typhoon submarien equipped win an expiramental propulsion device that is almost undetectable by sonar, and when detected it sounds like an anomoly.Red October follows agent Jack Ryan as he trys to prove that Marko Ramius is in fact defecting instead of trying to nuke america. The Captain lost his wife a year before because of a soviet officer who went unpunished due to political connections. He defected because of her death and the fear of the new technology. When the soviets
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6. The US strategy for the Cold War was based on Mutually Assured Destruction, meaning if the Soviets launched their missiles, we would launch ours and wipe them out. Our strategy was MAD.
7. The third leg of Mutually Assured Destruction was submarines, which could dive into the ocean for weeks at a time and had nuclear warheads attached to them.
8. The Russians had failsafes so that an AWOL officer couldn’t go and blow up the world. They had two keys to access the nuclear warheads held by different people on the ship.
9. The Americans had vastly superior submarines over the Russians. While the russian submarines were noisy, ours could go undetected.
D. Happenings in 1984
Politically:
Ghandi was assassinated
The Soviets boycott the Los Angleles Olympics
Economically:
Average cost of a house was $86,730
A gallon of gas was $1.10
Socially/culturally:
Ghostbusters was popular
Prince Harry was born
E.Happenings in 1990
Politically:
Saddam Hussein ordered Iraq invasion of Kuwait
Nelson Mandela was released from prison
Economically:
Saturn is launched by GM
A formal ban on the trade of ivory was introduced
Socially/culturally:
Bon Jovi and Red Hot Chili Peppers were popular
The Simpsons television show was launched
F.How might things happening when movie was made have influenced tone of movie?
In 1990, the Cold War was still fresh on the
The Cuban Missile Crisis was perhaps the closest that humankind had ever become to experiencing a thermonuclear war. In October 1962, the world watched perilously, as U.S. president John F. Kennedy warned his people of the amalgamation of Soviet arms in Cuba. John F. Kennedy refused to accept “offensive” Soviet artillery in such close proximity to the U.S., but Soviet chairman Nikita Khrushchev had already planned a stealthily
In a nutshell, these arguments surround the notion that Truman had taken over Roosevelt’s policies. These policies were driven by the determination to end the war with minimal U.S. casualties. However, dropping the atomic bombs would also in a sense serve as a “diplomatic bonus” where the Soviets were concerned. Moreover, Bernstein attempts to explain the reasons for why alternative methods hadn’t been seriously considered and whether or not these methods could have been successful at the time (Major Problems in the History of World War II, pg.
It was a focal point during the cold war, when the Soviet Union tried to positon nuclear weapons in Cuba, as a response to the American one in Turkey.
A. sank the entire Spanish fleet in Manila without a single American loss of life
Democratic localism was also enforced to keep the government at bay, allowing people to make their own economic decisions. Capitalism was renewed due to growth. Americans were enjoying various freedoms in politics, religion and travel. Nixon stated in one of his speeches that the United States had “come closest to the idea of prosperity for all in a classless society (166).”
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Offner, Arnold, "Provincialism and Confrontation: Truman’s Responsibility" in Major Problems in American Foreign Relations, Volume II.
The Soviet Union first learned of the American atomic bomb how? *through the use of espionage*
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78) As World War II came to a closure, two new superpowers emerged: the United States and the Soviet Union. The United States obviously felt that if they could prove to the world that they had superior weaponry, that it would be held in the highest regard by all nations of the world. Hiroshima and Nagasaki gave them the power to do just that. It is apparent that because of the troubled relations with Russia, and the confidence that the United States had in the atomic bomb, that they did, in fact, use it to intimidate Russia and not to force a closure to the war with Japan.
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First two American submarines find, report coordinates and attack the IJN Center Force. This allows the US Fleet to set up the air attacks for the battle of the Sibuyan Sea but does not prevent the center force from sailing down to Samar.