United States embargo against Cuba

The United States and Russia, once known as the Soviet Union, have tested relations in the past in what is called: the Cold War. The Soviet Union set up nuclear missiles pointed at the U.S. in Cuba, causing Americans declared that any nuclear weapon launched from Cuba would be viewed as an attack by the Soviet Union on the United States and that retaliation would be guaranteed (Winkler 94). The fear that Russia may overtake the U.S. has not subsided. Americans had strived to be the leading…

Barack Obama is the forty-third president of the United States of America. He is the first African-American president. President Obama was born on August 4, 1961 in Honolulu, Hawaii. After high-school Obama attended Occidental College in Los Angeles for two years. Afterwards he transferred to Columbia University in New York City, graduating in 1983 with a political science degree. He worked his way through college with the help of scholarships and student loans, when Obama moved to Chicago he…

The big war that was call the arm race was going on for a long period. In the arm race is bombs fight, revenges, and making superpower weapon. Back in the Arm race war every country was going against each other trying to declare the war. As the war was going on, some country was building bomb, and big weapon. Then the U.S decide to make a bomb to drop on japan to end them off in the war with them. In 1941 the U.S. was on pearl harbor, then Jjapan sent air force strike on the harbor, and kill…

During the late 1880’s to the early 1900’s, the United States began to look overseas to expand their territorial control through imperialism in order to gain economic growth, military strength, political power, and social expansion. Imperialism is the policy in which stronger nations extend their economic, political, or military control over weaker territories and was occurring as a major global trend around this time. There were a multitude of politicians, industrialists, historians, and even…

felt as though there were selfish, imperial intentions. Though described as warring with Hitler as a last resort, Roosevelt felt as though the United States’ interests and security were threatened, and therefore they entered the war. On December 7, 1941 the infamous bombing of Pearl Harbor occurred, shocking the secure, powerful nation of the United States. These historians described the motives behind this attack as Japan’s own imperialist intentions. Japan wanted to expand their empire…

socialist and communist values. The US was afraid of a Latin American communist state emerging so close to US borders (McConnell). Fidel Castro’s regime in Cuba is the quintessential example of US’s fears on Latin American communism. After Fulgencio Batista’s pro-American dictatorship was disposed by Castro, Cuba was declared a communist state upon strengthening economic relations with the USSR when the US imposed an embargo on Cuban trade (McConnell; Pieper). Due to Cuba’s precedent, the US…

Health Care is a Right for All Americans Since the late 1800’s there has been a campaign in the United States for some form of universal health care for all US citizens. In the late 1800’s to the early 1900’s most developed countries have instituted some form of social or national insurance. In Europe, countries began their health care programs by a “compulsory sickness insurance” (Germany 1883), other countries such as Austria, Hungary, Norway, Britain, Russia, and the Netherlands instituted…

humanitarian altruism or imperialism? Introduction The United States decided to apply aggressive and imperialistic policies during the late 19th and early 20th centuries whereby it made significant efforts to expand, extend and protect its economic and political presence worldwide (Oakes & Kia,2004). It was an era that had an impact on many territories around the world. One of the nations that were affected by such policies was Cuba. This essay focuses on a discussion on whether the US…

leader, Fidel Castro, into perspective by allowing me understand how certain events that happened around the world. They help me see the impacted that Castro had on the life of Cubans. I had been exposed to The Cold War and some of the events related to Cuba like the Bay of Pigs and the Cuban Missile Crisis but, that was a while back. So, if I tried to put these two assessments into perspective before having taken this class, it probably would’ve been a little bit difficult for me. Since, all…

The media’s role in foreign policy was first realized in Vietnam. Americans saw the carnage of both sides in Vietnam and began to turn against the war. The same is true with the Iran Hostage crisis where Americans saw the hostages and began to despise Carter. As more media spreads through the internet, print, and television more Americans can see images and read stories that may not always…