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realized the true implications of nuclear wars. This changed the course of the Cold War. To begin with, Fidel Castro, a Communist revolutionary and politician, seized power in Cuba during a violent revolution in 1959 and aligned with the Soviet Union. Cuba was extremely dependent on military and economic aid from the Soviets. Although the US believed that Cuba did not like Castro, most Cubans actually supported his socialist regime, and believed it benefited their country. The US had already

Cuban Missle Crisis Many agree that the Cuban Missile Crisis was the closest the world ever came to nuclear war; but exactly how close did it come? The Crisis was ultimately a showdown between the United States and the Soviet Union from October 16 to October 28, 1962. During those thirteen stressful days, the world’s two biggest superpowers stood on the brink of a nuclear catastrophe. The Crisis started as a result of both the Soviet Union’s fear of losing the arms race, and Cuba’s fear of US

The Cuban Missile Crisis, a standoff between the Soviet Union and U.S. Could have possibly lead to an outbreak of a nuclear war. The dangerous outcome of the Cold War, John Fitzgerald Kennedy, 35th President of the United States, took things into his own hands. The events during the crisis left Americans scared. How Kennedy accomplished everything may have been the best way to prevent an all out World War III. Coming out of the Cold War, the taut relationship that proceeded into the crisis and continued

because they were trapped by the Soviet Union. At the end of World War ll, the allies divided Germany into two parts. The west part of Germany was under the control of the United States, United Kingdom, and France. The eastern part of Germany was controlled by the Soviet Union. The capital city of Germany, Berlin, was also divided. The western section of Berlin was controlled by the British, the US, and France. The eastern section of the city was the Soviet Union. In June of 1948, Stalin

the Soviet Union wanted to convert Germany to a planned communist economy. Because the London conference went against the regulations as laid out during the Potsdam Agreement, the Soviet Union’s protest was quick and they withdrew from the Allied Control Council (ACC). In June of 1948, the Western allies introduced a new currency to the American, British, and French zones called the Deutsche mark without consulting the Soviets. This is considered the last straw, and the Soviet Union announces their

down their military strength, it was split into two halves, East Germany and West Germany. “The Soviet Union was granted control over East Germany, while the United States, Great Britain, and eventually France were given control of West Germany.” (“Soviets Blockade West Berlin”) Right around the middle of East Germany was the city of Berlin, which was at the time being controlled by the Soviet Union. Another measure was taken to cripple the military of Germany and that was to even further

on the other The Warsaw Pact, a collection of communistic states led by the Soviet Union. After the fall of Nazi led Germany in World War II, Germany was divided into two different zones, West Germany and East Germany, with West Germany being divided into three different sectors being administrated by The United States, The United Kingdom and France, while East Germany being administrated solely by The Soviet Union. Berlin the capital of both East and West Germany was further divided into two zones

after World War II between the worldwide superpowers the United States and the Soviet Union. The cold war lasted from the end of World War II until the period of the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991. Although it was a global conflict between capitalism and communism, the war was non-violent and it took a form of an arms race. For this, was the cold war inevitable? In 1945, the United States and the Soviet Union were allies that have mutually succeeded in World War II, which ended with the victory

wanted to. John F. Kennedy saw this and the next day he immediately went to talk to the leader of the Soviet Union. The leader of the Soviet Union was named Nikita Khrushchev and it was very hard for John F. Kennedy to make a deal with him so that he would put his nuclear missiles away. The deal was that if John F. Kennedy would remove his nuclear missiles from Turkey and Italy then The Soviet Union would have to remove their nuclear missiles from Cuba. John F. Kennedy also had to make an agreement that

years after World War II ended. After World War II, Nazi Germany was broken into four different parts. The Eastern parts were given the the Soviet Union. The Western parts went to the United States and their allies. Harry S. Truman, the President when this was going on, took a hard line against Communism, which was the economic policy of the Soviet union. He did not want the Soviets to expand their territories any more than they already had. His stance was called the “Truman Doctrine” and pitted