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  • Soviet Missiles Under Construction In Cuba
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    Cuban Missile Crisis Research Paper Overview The Cuban Missile Crisis was the closest the world ever came to nuclear war. The United States armed forces were at their highest state of readiness ever, and Soviet field commanders in Cuba were prepared to use battlefield nuclear weapons to defend the island if it was invaded. In 1962, the Soviet Union was desperately behind the United States in the arms race. Soviet missiles were only powerful enough to be launched against Europe but U.S. missiles ...
  • 1959 Eisenhower And Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev
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    On May 1, 1960, two weeks prior to the United States-Soviet Summit in Paris, a U-2 high altitude reconnaissance airplane was shot down while flying a spy mission over the Soviet Union. The Eisenhower administration was forced to own up to the mission, and Khrushchev canceled the Paris Summit. As a result, The Cold War between the United States and the Soviet Union continued for over 30 years. Shortly after the end of World War II, United State sand the Soviet Union emerged as the two superpowers...
  • Stalin And The Soviet Union
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    It is not difficult to lay blame to either the United States or the Soviet Union for the causes of the Cold War; the blame is to be put on the Soviet Union. Joseph Stalin was not looking to do what was best for the economy or the people. His ideas of being a dictator became bigger soon after the end of World War II. He immediately looked to take control over Eastern Europe. His reasons for doing so were not for economic gain but for becoming a major world dictator. There were many differences be...
  • Tense Cold War With The Soviet Union
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    Less than a year after the end of World War II, the great wartime leader of Britain, Winston Churchill gave a speech at Westminster College, in Fulton, Missouri. After receiving an honorary degree and being introduced by President Harry Truman, he delivered a historic speech. Churchill said, It is my duty to place before you certain facts about the present position in Europe. From Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Adriatic an Iron Curtain has descended across the Continent. Behind that lin...
  • Soviet Missiles In Cuba
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    On October 22nd, 1962, John Fitzgerald Kennedy, 35th President of the United States of America, addressed the nation on television. In his seven-point speech, he informed his audience that long-range nuclear missiles, capable of "striking most of the major cities in the Western Hemisphere, ranging as far north as Hudson Bay, Canada, and as far south as Lima, Peru" (JFK library p. 3) were being installed in Cuba by the Soviet Union. President Kennedy discussed the United States' response, which i...
  • Freedom In The Soviet Union
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    THESIS STATEMENT Three equally powerful and great forces eroded at the Soviet Union and created a sense of desperation that eventually brought the country to the knees of capitalism. The economic dire straits that plagued the country for so may years, the innate failure of Communism as a political idea for the twentieth century and a weak central government, amalgamated to create an atmosphere of nervousness and uncertainty which eventually led to the fall of Communism. ARGUMENTS ECONOMIC By the...
  • Soviet Union
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    Dear President Bush, I would like to advise you on the causes, course and effects of the Cold War in hopes that you this will help you in shaping your current foreign policy. The Cold War is a term used to describe the intense rivalry and strained relations between the two superpowers that had arose after World War II, the United States and the Soviet Union. This period of hostility mainly resulted from ideological differences, and mutual distrust between the two blocks. Following World War II, ...
  • Truman Doctrine After The Soviet Union
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    1. Name of President- Harry S. Truman 2. Dates in Office- 1945-19523. Political Party- Democrat 4. Presidential Cold War Philosophy President Truman's philosophy was to come to the defense of those countries in danger of Soviet takeover, but the US would not start a war with the Soviet Union. He also made alliances with Europe through NATO, which was a contrast to the past because from the time of Washington's Farewell Address, Americans have strongly favored avoiding all foreign entanglements. ...
  • Soviet Union With Nuclear Missiles
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    Introduction: Khrushchev must not be certain that, where its vital interests are threatened, the US will never strike first. As Kennedy says, "In some circumstances we might have to take the initiative.! " These words, readily published in 1962, became the verification to both Khrushchev and Kennedy that the Soviet Union and the United States would be preparing for a nuclear war. One could simply take Kennedy's threat at face value. The United States in 1962 was a growing empire whose military c...
  • Soviet Union
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    The Cold War The Cold War is the shifting struggle for power and prestige between the Western powers and the Communist bloc from the end of World War II until 1989. The Cold War was a fight between democracy and communism. There had always been mutual suspicion between the West and the USSR. This suspicion could be seen in the alliances these two powers had made during World War II. Even after the war, the West felt threatened by the continued expansion policy of the Soviet Union. Soviet Union a...
  • 1962 The Soviet Missiles
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    Cuban Missile Crisis When given the opportunity to write a research paper on any conflict or battle during recent American History, one has a number of options: World War Two, the War in Vietnam, and the Korean conflict to name but a few. However, I have chosen a brief period of two weeks during which the very existence of the United States was seriously threatened. To most of my generation the Cuban missile crisis is nonexistent. No one tends to look at non-physical actions as ones of any impor...
  • Former Soviet Union
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    When on December 21, 1991, the Soviet Union ceased to exist and broke into a fragmented group of independent countries (Byrnes), the world breathed a sigh of relief. Another horrible communist country had finally seen the light and given way to the western beliefs of capitalism and democratic government. But was this really the best thing to happen to an already unstable country Some say yes, because the socialist beliefs and oppression are finally gone. Others say no, because even though capita...
  • Domestic Reforms To The Soviet Union
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    WHY DID THE SOVIET UNION COLLAPSE The end of the Cold War and the collapse of the USSR are probably the most significant events of our lifetime so far. The causes for the collapse of the Soviet Union consist of a combination of internal and external factors. Briefly, the external factors consist of the rivalry and eventual arms race between the United States and the USSR, which almost led to nuclear war. The Cold War triggered conflicts in different parts of the world; in other words the rivalry...
  • Soviet Union
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    In this paper I will discuss what actions and thoughts added up to cause the cold war. The cold war lasted from September 1, 1945 to about December 25, 1991. That is about forty-five years, which is an extremely long time. The cold war was a global competition basically between two sides, the Free World, which was led by the United States of America, and the Communist World led by the Soviet Union. The struggle took place through indirect military conflict, and direct competition in the areas of...
  • President Of Free Democratic Russia
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    United States and Russian Relations have always been up and down. For fifty years the United States was locked in a cold war struggle with Communist nation of the Soviet Union. The American people feared Communism. The U.S. government responded by spending trillions of dollars on weapons specifically for fighting a war with the Soviet Union, but of course this never happened. There where many times that tensions rose and the two nations hit the brink of war, but political solutions where always ...
  • U.S. The Soviet Union And China
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    Cold War History: Red Scare & The Arms Race - The '50's Korean War, Arms Race, Red Scare, The Soviet Master, Sputnik Communist power and influence became world threatening by 1950. The Russians exploded their first atomic weapon in August 1949. In China, a bitter civil war was brought to an end with the Chinese Communists under Mao Zedong driving the Nationalist forces under Chiang Kai-Shek off the mainland to set up a U.S. backed government on the island of Taiwan. More than 500 million people ...
  • End Of Soviet Domination Over Eastern Europe
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    1. Describe and analyze three reasons for the end of soviet domination over Eastern Europe. On New Year's Eve, 1991, the Union of Soviet Socialists Republics was dissolved, sixty-nine years after its founding. By the end of October 1990, all fifteen Soviet republics had already declared their sovereignty. The fall of communism can ironically be described as the "domino theory". Starting with Mikhail Gorbachev's effort to transform soviet society, non-communist governments spread from Poland and ...
  • National Security And Cooperation Against Terrorism
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    The result of the end of the Cold War has left its impact and continuing effect on us today and will continue to in decades to come. The Cold War was a bipolar balance of power between two super powers: the United States and the Soviet Union (democracy vs. communism). National Security dominated foreign policies, which were the domain of the elite, making economics secondary. Although the super powers never engaged in direct conflict, each used poor underdeveloped Third World nations in their ba...
  • Their Missiles Near The Soviet Union
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    The rivalry between the superpowers of the day, United States of America, and the Soviet Union, lasted from 1945 to 1991. An intense rivalry built up between the powers, the Soviet Union wishing to spread their communist ideals throughout the world, while America severely opposed. During this rivalry, both sides built up considerable weaponry and the threat of nuclear war was imminent. The peak of this threat was seen at the Cuban Missile Crisis in 1962. Soviet Union and USA also backed opposing...
  • West Germany And The Soviet Union
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    Cold War is the term used to describe the intense rivalry that developed after World War II between groups of Communist and non-Communist nations. On one side were the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (U.S.S.R.) and its Communist allies, often referred to as the Eastern bloc. On the other side were the United States and its democratic allies, usually referred to as the Western bloc. The struggle was called the Cold War because it did not actually lead to fighting, or "hot" war, on a wide scal...

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