of Investigation This study will seek to answer the question of how Fidel Castro affected the relations between the US and the USSR during the Cuban Missile Crisis. I chose this question because I’ve always had a passion for learning about the Cold War, especially the Cuban perspective of the whole situation. With this in mind, this is why I found the topic relevant, as the whole incident has been a standing point in time representing the effects of unstable relations in times of nuclear crisis
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Germans were in disbelief when the announcement came. Many citizens grew up with a divided Berlin, so they had not known anything different. With the signing of the Treaty on the Final Settlement (the Two-Plus-Four Treaty) on September 12, 1990, the Cold War officially ended. This treaty unified East and West Germany. After this,
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since 1776 when they declared their independence. As World War II approached the United States was ending their economic depression allowing them to remain powerful yet neutral during the second world war. The fight had began in 1939 when Hitler, Germany's fascist leader, invaded Poland after signing the treaty of Versailles and then later invading the Soviet Union. Britain and France responded after many days or avoiding them and World War II had officially started. December 7, 1941 a day which will
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key to answering how our military has expanded. The military industrial complex can be described from one angle as, “Any set of relationships between military policy and industrial production” (Ball, “What is the Military-Industrial Complex?”). Major wars in the 20th century produced the need for a large American military force and arms industry, thus a complicated relationship between our military and purchase of weapons began. In Why We Fight, Senator John McCain helps us understand the same concern
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The Vietnam war was one of the most brutal wars in history, leaving thousands dead and even more injured. The war took the lives of millions making its toll as one of the top ten bloodiest wars ever. America fought bravely against foreign powers trying their best to win the war. The politics behind the war are very black leaving people clueless to our initial involvement. However, the fear of communism was the reason America took a stand in the Vietnam war. Ho Chi Minh started Vietnamese nationalist
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The Iran-Contra Affair was a historical event that occurred as early as 1926 and lasted up to 1986. The majority of the affair occurred primarily during the administrations of United States Presidents James Earl “Jimmy” Carter (1977-1981) and Ronald Wilson Reagan (1981-1989). The participants of the affair range from National Security Advisors Robert McFarlane and John Poindexter, to Secretary of Defense Caspar Weinberger. Another prominent member of the affair was National Security Council member
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When considering the Soviet perspective, its leader Joseph Stalin believed that Germany would be busy warring with Britain and France leaving the east out of the picture. However, the French surrender in June, 1940, made Stalin's second guess his previous unconcerned sentiment. Stalin responded by sending Vyacheslav Molotov to the German capital. According to Erickson and Dilks, Molotov was instructed to stall a German invasion of the Soviet Union. Stalin understood that nobody was bold enough to
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U.S under the leadership of President Kennedy was one of the worst news America could ever expect from Cuba. The US released photos of Soviet nuclear missile silos in Cuba - triggering a crisis that took the two superpowers to the brink of nuclear war (Morley & McGillion, 2005). It was subsequently resolved when the USSR agreed to remove the missiles in return for the withdrawal of US nuclear missiles from Turkey (Lopez-Levy, 2016). This followed a series of negotiations
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of the United States as a dominant world power after World War Two it has only ever been challenged on a governmental, militarily, and economical basis once. This grand enemy of the United States was known as the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR or SU for short). For almost fifty years these two great superpowers competed for influence over the resource rich third world, and many a times almost brought the planet to nuclear war. What is rarely addressed as the cause of such conflict however
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only to bring peace between Egypt and Israel but it cause advantages for the US Navy to go across the Suez Canal (Theodoric Meyer). In contrast, there are some other reasons that has been written in the book “The Bases of Empire” that in May 2005, for war the United States descended 100000 troops in Iraq in order to execute “occupation of that oil-nation, and with the confrontations growing over North Korea and Iranian nuclear program”(Catherine Lutz, P: 47). Moreover, Lutz says that although American’s
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