Berlin Blockade

implemented the continental system. Designed to blockade trade against Britain, the Continental System prevented the allies or neutral countries of Europe from trading with Britain, or they would face consequences from Napoleon himself. However, the effects of…

This also led to the fall of the Berlin Wall and the shredding of the Iron Curtain; these were signs of the end of the Cold War. The unraveling of the Soviet Bloc began in Poland in June of 1989, in which they elected a noncommunist opposition government. Eastern Europe Communist dictatorships fell one by one and by the autumn of 1989 East and West Germans were tearing down the Berlin Wall. Over the course of two years, countries were declaring independence…

killing more lives with communism than America could save with capitalism. So Truman and Stalin joined forces to try and save lives. Three ways America portrayed containment are the Berlin Airlift, Korean War, and Cuban Missile Crisis. The Berlin Airlift was an example of containment because America sent recourses to West Berlin, kept them from surrendering to Stalin and won the silent battle and freed them from communism. America sent everything food, clothing, coal, even…

West and the East of Germany were fighting for power, centering around Berlin, the allied victors split Germany into 4 zones. This quickly turned into a controversy, Russia governed East Berlin and the allied governed West Berlin. In 1948, the Western powers wanted to rebuild western Germany and block out Russia…

The Cold War: A New History is about the Cold War, which occurred after the Second World War. The book explains when it “started”, when it ended, and the events that occurred between 1947 – 1991. This war had no clear indication of when it began, for there no treaties being broken, no declaration of battle or of a war. But this time period was of a tension of political and military, for the leaders of Western bloc and Eastern bloc were on the edge of the Second World War. The Cold War was a war…

1. What major ideological conflicts, security interests, and events brought about the Cold War? The United States and the Soviet Union were destined to face conflict, for they were “Born of a common foe rather than common long-term interest, values, or history…” (Foner 887). One of the main influences of this conflict was the differences in ideologies, for both the Soviet Union and the United States “…claimed to be promoting freedom and social justice…and each offered its social system as a…

The Cold War was a time of extremely high tensions primarily between the United States and the Soviet Union, with the involvement of their respective allies. This time of heightened tension in history was very long and lasted from 1947 until 1991. At this time the United States and its allies wanted to stop the spread of communism while the Soviet Union and the other members of the Warsaw Pact wanted to spread it. During this time the threat of nuclear weapons weighed over all the countries…

territories were split between Western and Soviet territories. The US looked for ways to prevent Communism from spreading into its territories and installed the Marshall Plan to help Europe recover. The Soviet Union then prevented ground access to Berlin causing the US and Britain to drop supplies via airplane. At this point, Western Europe and the US signed the North Atlantic Treaty which agreed that if one country, that was part of the treaty, was attacked, it would be considered an attack on…

Cuban Missile Crisis "Nuclear catastrophe was hanging by a thread ... and we weren 't counting days or hours, but minutes. “Soviet General and Army Chief of Operations, Anatoly Gribkov. The Cuban Missile Crisis was the most dangerous event in human history. The Cuban Missile Crisis was a thirteen-day confrontation between the United States and the Soviet Union. In October 1962, it was the first time the United States came close to a nuclear war after Americans thought it was almost inevitable…

president and the first to be a Catholic one. Little did he know when he began his presidency that he would have a numerous amount of impacts in his lifetime such as helping out with the Cuban Missile Crisis, the Peace Corps, the Bay of Pigs, and the Berlin Wall. John F. Kennedy had eight other siblings and was born into a wealthy family. As he grew up he became very successful and attended many prestigious schools such as Harvard. In 1941 J.F.K joined the navy and in 1943 he was sent into…