August Spies

Operation Rolling Thunder is one of the largest US air force to strike the NVA (the North Vietnamese Army) during the Vietnam War. It was intend to destroy many industrial buildings in NVA's homeland to cripple their supplies, productions, and others. This would help to reduce the NVA's supplies to their army into the South Vietnam. However, it was the worst and ineffective ways because the NVA has a stronghold with mainly an air defense. This shows with more powerful and effective coordination…

Richard Nixon was the 37th President of the United States, he became the only American President to ever resign from office on August 9th, 1974. The factors that led to his resignation cannot be boiled down to a single event, instead his somewhat cruel personality and unorthodox viewpoints led to the end of his political career. The Watergate scandal, a key event in the downfall of Richard Nixon, can be associated to his paranoia and his belief that some of his political rivals were bad people.…

Robert Philip Hanssen, born April 18, 1944 to police officer Bob Hanssen, was one of the most damaging spies in United States history (Deep Inner Conflicts). Raised in Chicago, he would later attend Knox College where he received an AB degree in Chemistry. Next, in 1966, he would attend Northwestern University. Initially studying to become a dentist, he would decide to instead pursue a degree in Accounting and Information Systems. While in college, he would also take classes on the Russian…

first female helicopter mechanic working on the flight line. I had the honor of interviewing Carmon, now Carmon Hepp, the following are her recollections and my interpretations on the impact she has had upon women and the military of today. It’s August of 1973 and the 18 year old Carmon is sitting in a theater surrounded by men. She watches the men line up against the wall as the sergeant prepares…

Before the starting to tell movie we should know that the USA was watching all military movements of the USSR in Cuba before missile crisis. According to movie the plot was; The movie is starting with an aircraft which is taking photos of the USSR’s all military movements in Cuba and they see that the Soviet preparing ballistic missiles. According to analysis, those ballistic missiles be ready maximum in 2 weeks. Later than the president is calling all prime ministers and military commanders to…

Yagoda was the head of the NKVD, but was replaced after he could not find enough evidence to arrest Burkharin. After his removal, Yagoda was later detained and charged with working with Trotsky. He was also incriminated with being a fascist, traitor and spy. His arrest was so important because it was Yagoda who developed the entire system for the show trials. He even managed the first show trial with Kamenev and Zinoviev. Although Yagoda was responsible for many deaths, it did not make the…

August,1914 was not only the start of ww1 but was also unknowingly a new beginning for Canada and would end up being big contributor as to why Canada is the way it is today. As soon as Britain declared war Canada did too, we went it in known as a loyal small former colony of Britain but came out a great nation. This new beginning would not come easy and would come at a cost of many people’s efforts as well as sacrifices. War was not something to fear at the time but was seen as a, romantic,…

The United States entered World War II on December 7, 1941 after the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. After this women began to take a role in helpping the war effort after men enlisted in the military and rushed off to war. Many women started to loose their homemaker image and work outside the home. By 1945 one out of every four married women worked outside of the home. These women changed everyday women 's roles by working in industry, military, and the community around them. World…

When you think about war, what do you think about? Maybe airplanes dropping bombs, fighter jets, people at war fighting, mass destruction? Is there a war that didn’t involve any of these actions, but involved tension between multiple countries that lasted numerous decades? Yes, there is a war like this, it’s known as the Cold War. Even though the Cold War wasn’t a war, it consisted of wars and events that almost lead to world destruction. This event lasted a little more than four decades, from…

How could World War III be different if mind reading was a possibility? This was a possibility that the U.S. had previously experimented with. MK Ultra was an illegal experiment conducted between 1953–1964 by the Central Intelligence Agency. The goal of the MK Ultra experiments was to obtain the ability to control and read people's minds. The CIA used several different methods to control people's minds. MK Ultra was an experiment done on people from different backgrounds, knowingly and…