Missile crisis

Naval vessels or the United States’ superior air platforms. Iran achieving a nuclear weapons capability would not likely significantly impact the United States immediately, at least not in the continental United States, because of Iran’s lack of missile systems that a long range capability, but it would

Americans to put a man on the moon by the end of the decade. His enthusiasm spread across the country. Kennedy’s first foreign policy crisis surfaced just months after he took office, when Soviet premier Nikita Khrushchev threatened to sign a treaty with East Germany that would cut off the city of Berlin from the United States and Western Europe. Although the Soviet Union never signed

Boer War: The Boer war began in 1899 and ended in 1902. It took place in South Africa and was initially a conflict between the British army and the Dutch settlers however, the Canadian government also agreed to send some of their troops to help support the British (the English Canadians were eager to join the French Canadians were not.). This event was significant for Canada because, it was the first time they had fought in a big battle that counted, even if it was under the control of Britain,

Castro’s troops. By 1962, the U.S. placed an embargo on Cuba and all trade, travel, and business with Cuba was cut off. In the same year, Castro allowed Russia to put missile sites in Cuba. Castro did this so he can threaten the U.S. The United States surrounded Cuba to block off any deliveries from Russia. This led to the Cuban Missile Crisis. Over years, Cuban people suffered from food shortages and no personal freedoms. No country wanted to trade with Cuba because of the bad blood between them and the

Cold War Era Movie Assignment The movie/TV clips that we watched in class were all made between the years 1954 and 1964. World War II and The Cold War between The Soviet Union and the United States became the subject of many TV shows and movies of the time period. The paranoia and fear of communism and nuclear war was very real in the 1950’s/1960’s and it shaped the cultures of both the United States and the Soviet Union. You will be asked questions not only about the clips you will view but how

sides formed an alliance. While, there was disagreement of communism between the two superpowers the USSR and the U.S caused tension beginning the Cold War. In Asia, the proxy wars were fought in Vietnam and Korea. In Latin America, the Cuban missile crisis brought the world to the brink of nuclear war. The Cold War between the United States and the Soviet Union affected Europe because communism was spreading. For example, in the "Iron Curtain" speech Winston Churchill states, "All these famous

After World War II, the practices of Communism, a political ideology, quickly spread from the Soviet Union to other countries in the Eastern Hemisphere. The United States, a country that practices democracy, avidly made it known to other nations that it opposed communist practices. In response to the rapid number of nations that were beginning to practice it, the United States set a goal to limit the amount of nations that practiced it. A poorly planned invasion by the United States on Cuba and

“We have learned that the threat of massive destruction may deter an enemy only if there is a corresponding implicit promise of nondestruction in the event he complies, so that we must consider whether too great a capacity to strike him by surprise may induce him to strike first to avoid being disarmed by a first strike from us.” – Thomas Schelling The words of Thomas Schelling were extremely relevant during the time period of intense conflict that was the Cold War. His fantastic analysis of

1983 - The Most Dangerous Year of the Cold War Recent disclosures of secret documents from the U.S. and from Soviet archives shed light on an extremely dangerous crisis that took place in the year 1983, and in which the U.S. and the Soviet Union were on the brink of nuclear war, the closest they ever were (History News Network ,2016). Several reasons lead to that conviction, but first I’ll begin with a short introduction. During world war II the Soviet Union and the U.S. combined forces against

to war-torn and third world countries, showing his use of military aid. Though he tried his hardest to stay away from war, there was a very notable time in our history where he was forced to. This was known as the Cuban Missile Crisis. America had discovered Soviet missiles in communist Cuba pointed at the U.S. Kennedy ordered that the Soviets must remove their nuclear warheads. The Soviets refused, saying that Kennedy must remove the American nukes in Turkey. Kennedy refused and ordered a