Gary Powers Failure

There are many events in American history that are very important, but there are few that have an

Many great people and many great things shape history to what it is today. An example would be Adolf Hitler. Hitler was a great man but that does not mean what he did was essentially a great thing. Hitler helped in shaping the world’s history by causing World War 2. He was trying to shape the future as well because he wanted Germans to be the superior race. However there are good people who did good things to shape history. One specific person that comes to mind is Lester Bowles Pearson. He did not shape the world’s history but he did shape Canada’s history; he made Canada to what it is today, he introduced Universal Medicare to all Canadians, and he created the United Nations peacekeeping force.

After the ravages of World War II, the United States experienced a long period of economic boom, thanks to industrial weapons work and to the low price of oil. At the same time, under this nationwide economic prosperity, Americans felt increasing fear in the looming shadow of the communist Soviet Union. The US seemed to be in a spiral. Sputnik’s successful launch increased tensions that had been building since the aftermath of World War II; while President Eisenhower and his administration instituted numerous measures to calm down the hysteria that pervaded the US, these attempts had no real effect on de-escalating tensions felt between both sides.

One event triggered the next, and the next, and so forth. Though the magnitude and impact for each event varies, the fact that most every event had an impact does not. However, I believe that the five most significant event in early American history were the signing of the Declaration of Independence and Constitution, the Delaware Crossing, the Secession, Fort Sumter, and the fight for abolition in the Civil War. a. There is a reason that we celebrate with fireworks on the Fourth of July. The signing of the Declaration of Independence, and later the Constitution, was a pivotal, foundational moment not only for our own country, but also for the world.

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The USSR “perceived this as a serious threat” (Brezhkov), in comparison, Stalin's actions were viewed as threats to the West. With increased tensions between the two nations, the Cold War was soon to break out. Moving forward, in the year of 1952, the United States had successfully exploded a new hydrogen bomb “The detonation destroyed the island and sent up a three-mile-wide mushroom cloud” (Glider-Lehrman). Seeing the successful testing of a new bomb, that was supposedly stronger than an atomic one, would put any nation in a defensive state. Amidst the Cold War, the hydrogen bomb test of 1952 would result in the Soviets being constantly aware of the major threat the US has now imposed for many years to come.

There were many events that changed history forever. First, the Beatles break up. Changing music forever. Then M.A.S.H. Was introduced. making on of, if not the most popular tv shows ever. And finally, Bigfoot, the first monster truck was built. This brought about a culture of destroying cars, and big races. There are many events that shaped culture, these of which are a few of.

For example, because the US refused to believe that Stalin was holding to the agreements at Yalta (Larson, 151), Truman missed a key opportunity to befriend the great power and continue with Roosevelt's Grand Design. In the case of September 11, cognitive dissonance resulted in intelligence failure. There were several warnings within the US intelligence system, but the government ignored them because the new information did not fit the old paradigm of terrorism, and because the government discredited the warnings, the greatest tragedy on US soil ever occurred.

History repeats itself but there are moments that shaped American History. Many events occurred over the years that have created the views and principles for American citizens. Looking back here a few instances of things that have made a lasting impact on our culture and lifestyle of today. This is a peek in on the beginning of some of the things we take for granted every day.

and still is a pivotal event that has gone down in the history books as the occasions that are

He fell victim of a Cerebral Hemorrhage. After his death a man by the name of Nikita Khrushchev would take his place as Leader of Russia. After Stalin’s death, the tension between Russia and the United States eased up. Khrushchev went to visit the United States and tried to create a peaceful coexistence with us. Even though Khrushchev was still a firm believer of Communism, the tensions lowered between the two superpowers. Until a US U-2 spy plane was shot down by the USSR and also Khrushchev approved the proposition of the rebuilding of the Berlin Wall. The US guards were down when all of the plans of Khrushchev was released. Khrushchev was believed to have putten nuclear missiles in Cuba, which was too close for the United States liking. This, again, would cause an uproar in the United States, it was another calling for war. In response to the Cuban missile crisis, President John F. Kennedy would come up with the idea of the Bay of Pigs. Kennedy would call for Cuban Exiles to train in order to invade Cuba and overtake the missile crisis, but this plan was thought out clearly enough, it would backfire in Kennedy's face. After the failure of the Bay of Pigs, Kennedy had chosen not to attack Cuba for obvious reasons and also take the nuclear missiles out of turkey to make an agreement with the USSR. Still Khrushchev’s opinion on the US was the same as Stalin’s, he did not favor the idea of the support of the United States. “Support

The United States response began as a total cover-up and progressed through many versions of the facts. After the plane was shot down, the United States’ first announcement was that an “unarmed weather research plane based at Adana, Turkey, and piloted by a civilian American” was missing. First the government stated that the pilot was a civilian employee of the Lockheed corporation flying a U-2 plane chartered by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration. On May 7 the State Department announced that the plane was an unarmed civilian U-2 collecting intelligence and blamed the Soviet Union’s “excessive secrecy” for our need to spy on them. In a news conference statement by President Eisenhower on May 11, he lists four points: (1) intelligence-gathering activities are needed; (2) intelligence

After the ravages of World War II, the United States experienced a long period of economic boom, thanks to the increased production of weapons during the war and to the low price of oil. However, despite the nationwide economic prosperity, Americans felt increasing fear in the looming shadow of the communist Soviet Union. Sputnik’s successful launch increased tensions that had been building since the aftermath of World War II; as a result, President Eisenhower and his administration instituted numerous measures to calm down the hysteria that pervaded the US, but these attempts had no real effect on reducing tensions felt by both sides.

With the growing hysteria of an impending nuclear conflict with the Soviet Union (along with John Dulles’s call for “massive retaliation”) and with the end to the Korean War, Eisenhower aimed to make ends with Khrushchev, who denounced Stalin for his actions in a 1954 speech, though conflict arose when the US was accused of espionage from a U-2 Spy Plane in Russian territory. With tensions rising and in the midst of “Third World” countries coming up along with decolonization of some territories owned by Britain and Portugal, the Eisenhower Doctrine (1957) was proposed, in which the U.S. would oversee the affairs of and protect the Middle

Khrushchev fervently believed in communism and the prospects of the Soviet Union as a world power. He was much older and more experienced than Kennedy, but in global relations, the United States held the upper hand. Khrushchev was well aware of the Soviet Union as the weaker power and used intimidation to create a sense of apprehension within the United States. The threat of nuclear war for Khrushchev was not to reach a boiling point with Kennedy, but to give “the Americans a taste of their own medicine” (Dobbs 37). Therefore, the American and Soviet people felt unremitting trepidation because of possible nuclear war.