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several countries. This war went on from 1948-1991, affecting citizens all over the world. On June 15th, 1948, Soviet authorities stated that the Autobahn highway would be closed indefinitely for repairs. They then proceeded to put up a blockade, thus trapping people in the city of Berlin. The Americans, French, and British were trapped on the west side of the city. After being encased in the city for days with many people, no outside trade, and a big, dangerous wall keeping you from leaving

Research this week was fruitful and my bibliography grew substantially. A large part of the reason for this growth was the mining of the bibliography of other sources. One of the most fruitful was, The Cold War in a Cold Land: Fighting Communism on the Northern Plains. The book provided me with a variety of both primary and secondary sources. The list of sources includes, books, articles, and government reports. A second book that provided more sources was, How We Forgot the Cold War. The bibliography

What if The Cold War Turned Hot? The Cold War was a time of political and military tension primarily between the United States and the Soviet Union. Historians believe that these tensions lasted from 1947 to 1991. The Cold War had many different components, but one part that could have turned the war hot was the Cuban Missile Crisis. The Cuban Missile Crisis started on October 14th when a pilot of a U-2 spy plane made a high altitude flight over Cuba saw and photographed a Soviet SS-4 medium

During 1962, the United States and the Soviet Union were in conflict due to the Soviet Union placing missiles in Cuba, known today as the Cuban missile crisis. In attempt to avoid nuclear conflict and force the removal of the missiles, Kennedy was faced with three options; to bomb the missile sites and/or conduct both sea and airborne landings, or blockade the island and reassure the removal of the missiles. Kennedy decided to blockade Cuba as it was the only option that would result in the removal

after World War II, the United States followed the policy of containment, the Truman Doctrine, and the Marshall Plan. The Americans wanted to bring democracy to nations abroad, while the Soviet Union wanted communism to spread throughout the world. The primary goal of this policy was to keep Soviet Union-based communism isolated and to prevent the spread of it to neighboring countries. The United States was successful at meeting the goals of containment because there are only three big communist

States, Great Britain, and the Soviet Union divided Germany into two sectors, East and West Germany after their meeting at the Yalta Conference. The Soviet Union occupied and was developing a communist state in the East while the remaining Allies were established and developing a capitalist democracy in the West. Further complications were imposed when the city of Berlin was also divided into eastern and western sectors. Stalin’s response was to institute a blockade with intentions to limit French, British

fall of 1962, the world sat on edge for thirteen days as the prospect of a nuclear war between the United States and The Soviet Union became more and more legitimate. In October of 1962, an American spy plane discovered nuclear missile launch sites being built by the Soviet Union in Cuba, which rests only ninety miles south of Florida. The US went on to impose a naval blockade of Cuba, making sure that no more nuclear weapons were imported into Havana (Lebow 2000). President John F. Kennedy was tasked

“The Soviet Union must be that of a long-term, patient but vigilant containment of Russian expansive tendencies.” -X. The Cold War was after World War II. The United States and the Soviet Union were the world's strongest nations. They were called superpowers. They had different ideas about economics and government. The United States was capitalist and the Soviet Union was communist. Joseph Stalin wanted to expand the Soviet empire and spread communism throughout the rest of the world. The United

American soldiers in Berlin, could quite possibly be called the proudest decision of his political career (McCollough 630). The original conflict that led to the Berlin blockade arose after World War II. As early as 1947, growing problems between western democracy (United States, Britain et al.) and communism (the Soviet Union), started to take definite shape as the

amount of time. The Union was faced with trying to defeat a secession without destroying the Confederate States with the ultimate goal of returning the states to the Union. One suggestion was made by the standing General-in Chief of the U.S. Army, Winfield Scott, to President Lincoln and later deemed the “Anaconda Plan”. The plan would not be put in action until 1862 and would contribute to the degrading of the Confederacy’s ability to wage war and ultimate surrender to the Union. In 1861, Winfield