...justified. The assassination of JFK was justified because he caused the Cuban Missile Crisis and The Bay of Pigs invasion; however, others believe differently about his actions. Kennedy’s assassination was justified because of the Cuban Missile Crisis. The United States provoked the Soviet Union into what could have been nuclear war. Before JFK placed the nuclear missiles in Turkey, Nikita Khrushchev, a Soviet Premier, placed missiles in...
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...The Bay of Pigs The Bay of Pigs was an invasion of Cuba lead by J.F.K, that involves exiles from Cuba attacking the country. J.F.K originally wanted nothing to do with it but was deceived by the C.I.A. And it did not turn out fine. Something that they could've done would have to be take the risk of sending troops to help and keep your promise. Another thing that would've been better, would've been to trade them better, but you can't change that afterwards. So, to my knowledge, these ideas could've been very useful in 1961. The Space Race The space race was an event between the U.S.A and the Soviet Union. Both of their goals were to put a satellite into orbit which was achieved by the Soviets. Although, after the satellite was launched, things progressed even further. After their satellite, the U.S.A launched their own in 1957. And 4 years later in 1961, the Soviets launched the first man, Yuri Gagarin, into orbit around the earth. Although, this was not the end....
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...conditions of the Cold War. Explanation of specific threat against United States during the Cold War. Third, my preparation to prepare my family for Cuba Missile Crisis in the Cold War. Lastly, the question I was asked about the Cold War. Historical and Political Conditions of the Cold War The Cold War begin in 1945 until 1991. The Cold War starts with conflict between the Communist nation of Soviet Union and United States. Also, what type of government should rule Eastern Europe. Their three historical and political factor in 1960s about the Cold War Bay Of Pig, Vietnam War, and Cuba Missile Crisis. Also, United States and Soviet Union competed with each other through the arm race. The Arm Race to be first to build manufacture atomic and hydrogen bomb. Also, Both developed short and intermediate – range missile that will armed with nuclear warhead and to make a nuclear weapon to battle in war. Next, is the space race the Soviet build Sputnik and United States send man to walk on the moon. According to (Naranjo,May 6,2003) “The longest conflict of the twentieth century, the Cold War affected everything, from political ideology, foreign and domestic policy, to the presidency and the personal lives of Americans. With the collapse of the Iron curtain in Eastern Europe, the unification of Germany, the fragmentation and subsequent dissolution of the Soviet Union have all but eliminated the Cold War. International cooperation during the first Gulf War demonstrated that even...
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...the right to privacy Reynolds v. Sims-1964- Congressional districts must be composed of roughly equal population- rural voters previously had more influence because their Congressional districts were smaller while urban districts were larger Mapp v. Ohio- police could not use evidence unlawfully obtained Gideon v. Wainwright- right to an attorney Miranda v. Arizona- Miranda rights Engel v. Vitale and Abington School District v. Schempp- schools could not mandate or encourage prayer or Bible study Griswold v. Connecticut- states could not ban birth control- restricted right to privacy Cold War 1959- Castro takes over Cuba, turns communist, allied with Soviets- Khruschev Space Race- 1957- Sputnik launched, Yury Gagarin is first man in space-1961 Neil Armstrong- first man on the Moon-1969 Bay of Pigs- failed coup against Castro- Cuban rebels supported by US- complete failure, tension with Cuba-1961 Cuban Missile Crisis-1962- Soviets began installing long-range nuclear missiles in Cuba-capable of reaching US- Kennedy responded with a...
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...The nuclear arms did little to restrain the actions of the USA and the soviet union in the cold war in the years of 1949-63? On the surface, it can be argued to a partial extent that the arms race did restrain the actions of the USA and the USSR due to the fact that both leaders had mutual understanding of the impact that nuclear weapons would have on both nations, therefore, they couldn't condemn their nations to that sort of destruction.The establishment of MAD was an attempt of both nations to restrain the use of arms race. However, the fact that nuclear weapons were been produced at a rapid pace means that there was still underlying fear that one nation would use the weapon against the other which highlights that arms race did little to restrain the arm to a partial extent. On one hand, it can seem that both leaders, Khrushchev and Eisenhower felt that the prospect of nuclear war was too terrifying, thus, we can argue that nuclear weapons played as a deterrence as both nations could not condemn their nations to nuclear annihilation. For example, the USA detonated their first hydrogen bomb on the first of November 1952 on Enwetak and this created a cloud of 100 miles and 25 miles high, killing every species near it, this highlights the destructive force of a weapon. The fact that the USA did not intervene during the Hungary crisis in 1956, even though, it would have been an beneficial for them as they would have had a democratic nation in a soviet sphere of influence...
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...to his assassination, Kennedy never lived to see this act pass (which happened, during the Johnson administration, in 1963). Kennedy strived to develop the nation’s economy in a way that would benefit employers and employees; when Big Steel broke part of an informal bargain (by sharply raising prices), Kennedy called for an investigation and redirected governmental steel purchases to the smaller companies that had not raised prices (Davisson-Gienapp-Heyrman-Lytle-Stoff, 2005). Additionally, President Kennedy created the Peace Corps, initiated the ‘space race’ (which put a man on the moon in 1969), advocated on mental health issues, and worked with Congress on affordable housing, equal pay for women, and a host of other agendas. President Kennedy was in office at the height of the Cold War, and though there was much to do in the United States, there were many conflicts that added foreign agenda. The covert invasion at the Bay of Pigs resulted in a “mismanaged disaster” and the same covert approach taken in Vietnam left the United States in the middle of a “Vietnamese civil war”. In 1962, the Cuban Missile Crisis left the United States in the “peril of nuclear confrontation” when spy planes discovered Soviet offensive missile sites in Cuba. The end of this crisis came when the exchange agreement was reached with Russia to remove the sites in Cuba and the United States would not invade Russia’s ally (Davisson-Gienapp-Heyrman-Lytle-Stoff,...
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...communism in Europe while the Eisenhower Doctrine was focused upon providing both military and economic assistance to nations resisting communism in the Middle East and by increasing the flow of trade from the United States into Latin America. The Kennedy Doctrine was based on these same objectives but was more concerned with the spread of communism and Soviet influence in Latin America following the Cuban revolution that brought Fidel Castro to power under Eisenhower during the 1950s. Some of the most notable events that stemmed from tenets of JFK’s foreign policy initiatives in regard to Latin America and the spread of communism were: The Bay of Pigs Invasion, April 17, 1961, Increase of U.S. involvement in Vietnam War, 1962, Cuban Missile Crisis, October, 1962, and Ratification of Nuclear Test Ban Treaty, July, 1963. The Bay of Pigs Invasion was an unsuccessful action by a CIA-trained force of Cuban exiles to invade southern Cuba, with support and encouragement from the US...
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...The Cuban Missile Crisis The world was at the edge of a third world war. This was the result of a variety of things: the Cuban Revolution, the failure of the Bay of Pigs invasion, US anti-communism, insecurity of the Soviet Union, and Cuba's fear of invasion all made causes for war. However, war was not the result due to great cooperation from both President Kennedy and President Khrushchev and each of the decisions made by the leaders was crucial in the outcome of The Crisis. Kennedy's choice to take action by means of quarantine instead of air-strike and Khrushchev's decision to abide by the quarantines were perhaps the two most significant decisions made by the leaders in order to prevent war. The Cuban Missile Crisis showed the world that compromising and discussion can in-fact prevent war. As Khrushchev said in 1962, "They talk about who won and who lost. Human reason won. Mankind won." 1 The world had almost seen another world war, the effects of which would have been devastating because of the weapons involved. Humanity, indeed, was the prevention of the war. The Cuban Revolution was a background cause to the crisis. On January 1st, 1959 a Marxist regime in Cuba would have seemed unlikely. To the communist party in Cuba, Fidel Castro appeared tempestuous, irresponsible and stubbornly bourgeois. In 1943 President Batista appointed a communist to his Cabinet, as he used communists as leaders of the labor unions. Batista started to fail the Cuban communists and their...
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...On October 4, 1967, s Soviet ballistic missile launched Sputnik, the first artificial man-made satellite to orbit the Earth. Americans were not happy; they viewed space as the next frontier, and as tradition, the wanted to explore space first. They also feared the R-7 ballistic missile that launched sputnik for a nuclear warhead could of just as easily been attached and made it into American air space. In 1958, the U.S. launched its own first satellite and Dwight D. Eisenhower created NASA that same year. Still, the Soviets were one step ahead, launching the first man into space in April 1961. Alan Sheppard quickly made the second man in space, an American. That May, President John F. Kennedy made the bold claim that they would land a man on the moon by the end of the decade. His prediction came true July 20, 1969, when Neil armstrong became the first man to ever set foot on the moon, effectively winning the space race for the...
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...The Cold War Overview * Arms Race * Communism * Glossary and Terms * Space RaceMajor Events * Berlin Airlift * Suez Crisis * Red Scare * Berlin Wall * Bay of Pigs * Cuban Missile Crisis * Collapse of the Soviet UnionWars * Korean War * Vietnam War * Chinese Civil War * Yom Kippur War * Soviet Afghanistan War | People of the Cold War Western Leaders * Harry Truman (US) * Dwight Eisenhower (US) * John F. Kennedy (US) * Lyndon B. Johnson (US) * Richard Nixon (US) * Ronald Reagan (US) * Margaret Thatcher (UK)Communist Leaders * Joseph Stalin (USSR) * Leonid Brezhnev (USSR) * Mikhail Gorbachev (USSR) * Mao Zedong (China) * Fidel Castro (Cuba) | http://www.ducksters.com/history/cold_war/summary.php The Cold War Communism Communism is a type of government and philosophy. Its goal is to form a society where everything is shared equally. All people are treated equally and there is little private ownership. In a communist government, the government owns and controls most everything including property, means of production, education, transportation, and agriculture. History of Communism Karl Marx is considered the Father of Communism. Marx was a German philosopher and economist who wrote about his ideas in a book called the Communist Manifesto in 1848. His communist theories have also become known as Marxism. Marx described ten important aspects of a communist government: * No private property * A single central bank...
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...The Truman Doctrine * Britain could no longer afford its traditional international rule. Greece and Turkey were both facing communist pressures, so G.B. asked the U.S. to fill in. * As the leader of the “free world,” the U.S. must now shoulder the responsibility of supporting “freedom-loving peoples” wherever communism threatened them. * “The Truman Doctrine is the U.S. policy of CONTAINMENT.” * Because of the Truman Doctrine we might find ourselves in an array of fights. The Marshall Plan * Marshall pledged the U.S. to contribute billions of dollars to finance the economic recovery of Europe. * A policy not against any country or doctrine but against hunger, poverty, and chaos – a New Deal for Europe. * The Soviet Union refused to participate – solidifying division. * Indirect way of spreading capitalism. NATO * In that same year, the U.S. Canada, and ten western European nations est. the North Atlantic Treaty Organization pledging mutual defense against Soviet attack. * Western Alliance of Nations * Future Defense Alliance * The Soviets responded with the Warsaw Pact – a formal eastern European alliance. Chairman Mao * Communist led by Mao Zedong emerged victorious in the Chinese civil war. * Blocked from the U.N. The Korean War * Occupied by Japan during WWII, Korea had been divided in 1945. * In June 1950, the North Korean army invaded South Korea, hoping to reunify the country under communism...
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...He had won the elections only due to his status as a war hero, his family connections and wealth. After serving three terms in the House of Representatives, followed on by a term of a Senator, he had noticed that he wasn’t making an impact to the American nation and had decided that it was time for greater change and change was what he got. From January 20, 1961, Kennedy became America’s 35th president- the youngest man elected to the office. John F. Kennedy brought hope and promise into American lives and had led America through the Cold War, World War 2, the Cuban Missile Crisis {1962}, the Bay of Pigs Crisis, Lynching and the Berlin Blockade. Moreover, the 1960’s called for acts of segregation and dispute over civil right however, Kennedy had prosecuted any race riots and had instituted peace policies and equality into everyday life by initiating the Alliance for Progress, the Nuclear Test Ban Treaty and the Peace...
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...The Assassination of J. F. K. Ronald J. Conti Professor: Kathy Hartwell Mountain State University Spring 2012 Abstract This paper is going to tell of mainly the assassination of, President John F. Kennedy. It will give a brief description of his early and later life, his time in the senate, his presidency, and finally his assassination. To get some of the information on the afternoon of the assassination, one can go to youtube.com. They have some really good videos. Some of them are theories and some are actual footage. It truly was a very sad day for his family, and for the rest of the country. There are various conspiracy theories surrounding the assassination, but what is written in this paper may only go along with one of them. The Assassination of J. F. K. John F. “Jack” Kennedy was born on, May 29, 1917, to Joseph Patrick Kennedy Sr., and Rose Elizabeth Fitzgerald Kennedy. As siblings go, John was the second eldest of nine children. John’s father was the first chair of the Securities and Exchange Commission and, later, an ambassador to London. John is the second son of four boys born to Joseph and Rose. Rose is the eldest child to, John "Honey Fitz" Fitzgerald, a prominent Boston political figure, who was the city's mayor, and a three-term member of Congress. During John’s childhood, he had been very ill, and had been given the last rights, five times; the first time, was when he was a newborn. He was born to an Irish-Catholic family, to which had nine children;...
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...will go to their scheduled discussion sections and take the second part of the exam. Format: 3 mini-essay answer; 40-60 multiple-choice questions; 5-10 fill-in-the-blank questions; and 5-10 two-sentence answers. Short-essay answer: concisely answer the following questions. Be prepared to answer all of them. ACTUAL QUESTIONS FOR THE EXAM 1) Consider what you learned in lecture and from the readings by Rohter, Guimarães, Goldstein, Vaughan, and Stout. Discuss how people are racialized in Brazil and Cuba. Be sure to cover the following issues: a. What historical conditions explain the high level of inequality in these countries? Why are socio-economic conditions connected to race? (10 pts) b. Provide one concrete example from the readings that shows how constructions of race in Brazil and Cuba are similar, and one concrete example from the readings to show how they are different (10 pts) c. Discuss why identities are mediated and how media is used as part of the process of racialization (10 pts). Use one example provided in class to explain your argument (10 pts). 2) Considering the movie “Even the Rain” and from the readings by Barron, Thomson, Spronk, and Monasterios discuss the connections between extraction process, natural resources and social movements in Bolivia. a. Explain what the connections are between the extraction process, natural resources and social movements in Bolivia? Use one example from the movie and one example from the readings...
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...Nicholas Brzosko Mr. Dormer Modern U.S 12 March 2015 The United States and Soviet Union Space Race Different ideals discriminated the two super powers. Ideals that are the antithesis of one another created an oscillating spectrum, ranging from inhibiting to creating a pandemic. The launch of the Sputnik by the USSR exacerbated the tension in the U.S. Terrified of the new gauged potential; the Americans entered the space race. The launch of the sputnik was the inception of the space race. The race was hard to adapt to, and fluctuations of power and tactics created obstacles. However progression of the race sparked a desire to develop new technology resulting in monumental events, such as the launch of the Sputnik and Laika the dog. These...
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