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Jp DeBarber US History Pollock 14 April 2017 Unit 8 Essay Both JFK and Johnson were highly famous, yet controversial presidents. Elected in 1960 as the 35th president of the US, 43-year-old John F. Kennedy was the youngest man to run in office. As president, Kennedy endured to tense Cold War strains in Cuba, Vietnam and elsewhere. He additionally drove a reestablished drive for an open administration and in the long run gave government support to the developing social equality development. On

Prime Minister of that time, Nikita Khrushchev). President Kennedy’s name is associated with the invasion of the Bay of Pigs, the Cuban Missile Crisis, the building of the Berlin Wall. Also, initiating the Project Apollo, establishment of the Peace Corps, the Nuclear Test Ban Treaty, and of course he was successful in preventing the Nuclear War during the Cuban Missile Crisis. From my point of view, although the 35th President of the US made many mistakes, he was successful in this position and left

Stalin and events such as the creation of missiles and bombs and the cuban missile crisis played a significant role in the Cold War. Joseph Stalin was a powerful and aggressive soviet leader. "Stalin focused on creating a model communist state. I 'm doing so, he made both agricultural and industrial growth the prime economic goals of the soviet union...By 1937, the Soviet Union had become the worlds

Thirteen Days is an account of the Cuban Missile Crisis between the United States and Soviet Union. These thirteen days were considered by historians to be one of the most intense period of negotiation and conflict where the fate of the world was in jeopardy. During the thirteen days, President John F. Kennedy faced immense pressure to make sure that the missiles placed in Cuba by the Soviets did not become operational. The president faced three different options: an airstrike, blockade or “quarantine”

have today through building up our military that is the best in the world, and with a defense system and deterrent through the build-up of a nuclear arsenal that would deter America’s aggressors. “He announced plans to build thousands of nuclear missiles, known as Minutemen, capable of hitting targets on the other side of the world” (Carnes and Garraty 647). President Kennedy also, “Expanded the space program, vowing that an American would land on the moon within ten years” (Carnes and Garraty 647)

The Cuban revolution was the spark that ignited the flame of communism in Cuba. The developing nation gained independence only as recently as 1898, and was already filled with an atmosphere of distrust and resentment towards the United States. In July of 1953, a revolution began in Cuba between the United States backed President Batista and Fidel Castro. Fidel and his brother Raul Castro lead a series of guerilla warfare battles against the forces of President Batista. “I am Fidel Castro and we have

“One of our greatest assets is that all men aspire to be equal and free. This fact haunts the rulers of the Kremlin today for they cannot change the law of nature and they know it.” stated Allen Dulles, the fifth director of the Central Intelligence Agency. The Bay of Pigs Invasion was an encounter that occurred on April 17, 1961, between Cuban exiles, armed and trained by the American Central Intelligence Agency and the military forces of Fidel Castro. With the failure of the Bay of Pigs invasion

“One of our greatest assets is that all men aspire to be equal and free. This fact haunts the rulers of the Kremlin today for they cannot change the law of nature and they know it.” stated Allen Dulles, the fifth director of the Central Intelligence Agency. The Bay of Pigs Invasion was an encounter that occurred on April 17, 1961, between Cuban exiles, armed and trained by the American Central Intelligence Agency and the military forces of Fidel Castro. With the failure of the Bay of Pigs invasion

greatest hockey team in the world. The Soviet Union and the United States were very distant during three decades of a nuclear arms race. Even though the two nations never directly had a battle, the Cuban Missile Crisis, amongst other things, was a result of the tension. The missile crisis began in October of 1962, when an American spy plane secretly photographed nuclear

impact caused him to drop to a lower altitude where second missile made a direct hit. The pilot was able to parachute safely but once on the ground, he was surrounded by Soviet forces. Powers was convicted of spying and sentenced to three years in prison and seven years of hard labor but was later “traded” for a captured Soviet spy. Another well-known example of the tense relations between the U.S. and the U.S.S.R. is the Cuban Missile Crisis. During the Cuban Missle Crisis, leaders of the U.S