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The Necessity of Containment In the Cold War, the American military is believed to have spent over $8 trillion. The cold War was a conflict between the US and the Soviet Union. The Soviet Union was trying to popularize the use of communism all over the world. The Americans were trying to stop communism from spreading by containing it. Containing is to keep something in a certain area, and in this case America was doing that with communism. The differences between democracy and communism is astounding

wall were world war II which had both economic and political events, the cold war (political), the berlin blockade (economic), the berlin crisis (political), John F. Kennedys speech (social) and the four-power agreement (political). World war two was a political event because it was between countries and it was an economic event because it left Germany destroyed. Germany was allies with Soviet Union and they were against the United States of America, France and Great Britain during World War II from

with one another. Many country has been on war with one another but they have got anything out of it, except millions of people deaths. Whenever “war” start it’s always happened because of two nations disagreement with one another. In 1948 Berlin Blockade, The USSR attempt to break the connection between the Western and Eastern parts of Berlin, in the result of this early days of Cold war started. As long as I know the history there is only one person who said violence, weapons is not way for solution

Crisis Imagine that you are John F. Kennedy in 1962, and you find out that your ally, Cuba, has your enemy, Soviet Union, has ICBMS (intermediate- range ballistic missiles) & Ilyushin Il-28 light bombers, that could reach the United States and aimed toward the United States. The Cuban Missile Crisis was a thirteen-day confrontation between the United States, Cuba, and the Soviet Union. Cuba had the missiles there for like three months before one of the U.S had a spy plane that figured out that Cuba

legacy into the 21st century. A critical event in the Cold War was the Cuban Missile Crisis of 1962. It presented a situation where both the United States and Soviet Union wielded the power of nuclear weapons, with the potential to descend the world into its first nuclear war. The Cuban Missile Crisis was initiated by the Soviet Union leader Nikita Khrushchev, provoking U.S president John Kennedy by imprudently placing nuclear missiles in Cuba. Khrushchev’s superficial proposals of a missile exchange

The Failure of One, the Fall of Many: Featuring the US and the Soviet Union The Cold War in 1947 through 1991 was a result of the uneasy alliances developed during World War II between the US and the Soviet Union, and the US and Great Britain that gradually began to deteriorate. Soon the Soviet Union began to rise above the others and in 1948 had established governments within Eastern Europe with the help of the Red Army. This worried both the US and Great Britain for they feared Soviet-influenced

Kennedy took the position after Dwight D. Eisenhower with a narrow victory over Richard Nixon. Though the Soviet Union was causing trouble at the time, Kennedy focused on Cuba. The foreign policy of Flexible Response played a large role in dealing with the Soviet Union and Cuba. Cuba had a rising communist leader named Fidel Castro but as soon as Cuba became friends with the Soviet Union, President Eisenhower broke ties with the country. To eliminate the threat of the rising leader, President Eisenhower

Cuban Missile Crisis were one of the most dangerous and terrifying days in history. The Cuban Missile Crisis was a political and military standoff between the Soviet Union and the United States and is considered the closest moment the Cold War came to escalating into a fatal nuclear war. (1) During the incident, the leader of the Soviet Union, Nikita Khrushchev and the president of the U.S., John F Kennedy had the power to destroy half of the countries in the world. (5) The crisis resulted from the huge

America and the Soviet Union had serious differences, being that they believed in different ideas and systems. America’s being containment and Capitalism, while the Soviet Union’s being expansion and Communism. They both had strong opinions on what was wrong or right. On April 25, 1945, at the Elbe River in Germany, The United States and the Soviet Union armies met and celebrated their division of Hitler’s Germany and the ending of World War II. But the two powerful nations had serious differences

invasion, which was led by the CIA and exiles from Cuba. Even with this, they were still unable to overthrow Fidel Castro. The failure and the tensions the Soviet Union had in 1961 about the Berlin Crisis, set the early events of the Cuban Missile Crisis of 1962. Nikita Khrushchev was on the other hand the first Communist Secretary of the Soviet Union in 1953. He later served as the Premier from 1958 to 1964 after the power struggle following Stalin’s death.