Ally Carter

Limitation Talks in 1972, the United States and the Soviet Union culminated four years of SALT by signing a treaty limiting the deployment of antiballistic missiles and an agreement to freeze the number of offensive missiles for five years. President Jimmy Carter was faced with the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan and it proved to be disastrous for his…

attempt by any outside force to gain control of the Persian Gulf region will be regarded as an assault on the vital interests of the United States of America, and such an assault will be repelled by any means necessary, including military force.” Jimmy Carter, state of the union address, January 23rd, 1980. (Jones) Any major world news today is likely to cover the tumultuous affairs of the Middle East. The United States has a large presence in this area. It is necessary to understand the…

Addams heard that Wilson’s idea of entering the war to mold world peace by helping our allies. She attempted to push people to create an “international organization to prevent further wars”, but the feedback she got was hostile. Addams gave a speech at Evanston, Illinois Church where, “an old colleague from Addams’s progressive reform days, Illinois Supreme Court Chief Justice Orrin Carter, stood up and criticized her for not supporting her government in a time of war” (Knight, 216). As…

The origins of the Cold War are basically the United Staes against the Soviet Union, capitalism verse communism. The United States and the Soviet Union have ideological differences, they believing in running the government different ways. America believes in a democracy basically a free market government. On the other hand, Russians believe in communism basically a dictatorship. George Kennan is most famously known for the “Long Telegram”, he lives in russia at the time and sends a telegram back…

Annotated Bibliography Carter, R. G. (2005). Contemporary Cases in US Foreign Policy: From Terrorism to Trade. Retrieved from books24x7: http://skillport.books24x7.com/toc.aspx?bkid=18260 Implementing changes in the federal government can be cumbersome. Historic changes to foreign policy develops after the attacks of September 11, 2011. Foreign policy makers, after the attacks, are not only directed by the presidential or top White House administrative officials, it would now involve others…

Bill Nye said, “Climate change is happening, and I think this is perhaps the most serious environmental issue facing us.” Bill Nye is a mechanical engineer, who is most known for being the face of the educational program, Bill Nye the Science Guy. He has become one of the most popular figures in the science community. In his quote, Nye is talking about climate change, which is a change in global or regional climate patterns such as a change in temperature of a region. Climate change is one of…

and Children’s program.This goes to show how the government went to any lengths to ensure the Black Panther Party was seen as a militant group who were nothing but criminals and dangerous. In 1968 the L.A. Chapter was formed by Alprentice “ Bunchy” Carter he was the leader of Slauson street gang in Los Angeles. Due to disagreements within the Black Panther Party some wanting to be apart of local government and social services and the other wanting to continue the constant conflict with the…

loved Reagan, when in reality he was not “universally loved” as this interviewee stated (Maureen Donohue: Libyan Bombings 1986). Reagan, as the other interviewee said Reagan “ had a message the country need to hear at the time, after Watergate, Jimmy Carter being a weak president, and the Iranian hostage situation” (Rob…

Everyone remembers or has seen the historical video of the first time Americans landed on the moon. When we first hear Neil Armstrong’s famous words, “One small step for man, one giant leap for mankind.” People remember this day as when we made world history. But today, we do not hear about the space program anymore. The world that was once connected by the same dream has disappeared. Americans need the excitement that was there that day. Where generations of people come together and once again…

in Africa to the Civil Rights Movement, he highlights that the movement is part of a larger black freedom struggle. Gaines explains how the movement was impacted by the Cold War. America’s reluctance was a red flag for newly independent nations to ally with the US against the USSR. This reading was quite interesting because it made me think about how the ideology and the direction of the Civil Rights Movement were influenced by global events.…