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The Cuban Missile Crisis was a thirteen day military and political standoff between the two superpowers of the 20th century. Starting on the 16th of October 1962, the United States of America (US) discovered nuclear missile launch sites belonging to the Soviet Union in Cuba. For thirteen days the US attempted to remove these missiles, while the world was as close as it ever has been to global nuclear war and fallout. The Cuban Missile Crisis was caused by several different factors, and ended…

in the United States. You could only have an abortion if it was life-threatening to the mother. This means there were not as many abortions. In 1960-1962, there were 292 abortions each year. Just a few years before Roe v. Wade in 1970, there were 193,491 abortions. This number climbed to 586,760 abortions in the year of 1972 (Johnston). In 1960-1962, not many abortions occurred because it was illegal. Numbers would only climb higher. In 1974, the year after Roe v. Wade was passed, there were 898…

On Monday, October 22, 1962, John F. Kennedy announced to the public that nuclear war between the United States and the Soviet Union was an impending possibility. In what would come to be known as one of the most daunting presidential addresses during the Cold War, Kennedy informed the public that there was a series of offensive missile sites on the island of Cuba, which had been placed there by the Soviet Union. Kennedy went on to inform his audience that the Soviet Union had been ordered to…

Political thought has been a distinctive activity of human beings since the ancient period. Thinking about politics is an inevitable activity of the earliest political thinkers. Several of them have sought to explain about the institutions, practices and government that they have found themselves living into (Boucher & Kelly, 2009). The magnitude of the differences among the proposals of these political thinkers could be attributed to the changes in the society occurring at that time. The…

and painter. She has published seven children's books and four poetry collections. When Frieda turned two years old we were blessed with another child who was a boy named Nicholas on January 17, 1962. Nicholas Hughes is a fisheries biologist known as an expert in stream salmonid ecology. August 9th 1962 Ted and I got divorced after the dreadful findings of him having an affair with a women named…

stronger. For every person the French either captured or killed more people, would join its ranks (Evans, 2012). Some Historians however such as Horne have multiple views of torture during the Algerian War. In his book, 'A Savage War of peace:Algeria 1954-1962' Horne states that "torture is a double-edged weapon" meaning that torture may have helped France militarily but it damaged it's international status as a "Peaceful Country" (Branche, 2007). There are even generals that have admitted that …

the couple that led them to become worthy of their title as Righteous Among the Nation. Meizel, Irena. “From the Letter of Irena Meizel to Yad Vashem, November 1962.” Righteous Among the Nations, Yad Vashem Remembrance Authority. Irena Meizel was one of many Jews saved by Jan and Antonina Zabinski during the Holocaust. In November 1962, she wrote a letter to Yad Vashem, testifying before the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany of how the Zabinskis saved her and many other…

Geography of the Cold War: What is Containment? Containment means to stop the spread of communism. America during the Cold War wanted to stop communism from spreading to other places in the world. The Soviet Union however wanted communism to spread throughout the world and they wanted to be the ones to spread it. Stalin and The Soviets believed that communism is better than capitalism and that they would win this war. America had a strategy to stop it. In order to stop the spread of communism…

Born in 1941. Bernie Sanders started out his political career in the early 70’s but wouldn’t come to actually hold a political office until 1981 when he won mayoral race in Burlington, Vermont’s biggest city by a mere 10 votes. Bernie ran as an independent and winning the race was a big shock for many knocking off a six-term local mayor. I chose to do this paper on Bernie Sanders because, over the last 6 years I have become heavily interested in the political state of this country and world. The…

The Cuban Missile Crisis of October 1962 was a dangerous confrontation between the US and the Soviet Union during the Cold War. This is when the US and Soviet Union came the closest to nuclear warfare. The situation was different in a number of ways, featuring confirmations and non supported directions as well as direct communications and miscommunications between both the US and Soviet Union (Office). The overwhelming conflict was also being judged by the fact that it was basically played out…