Berlin Blockade

The nuclear bombs the United States dropped on Japan changed the world forever. They represented the dawn of the Nuclear Age and the end to warfare as we knew it. No longer could two nations with nuclear weapons could go to war with each other with out risking mutually assured destruction. The end of World War II demonstrated the awesome power of these armaments and depicted the United States as the leading world super power. That lasted until the summer of 1949 when the Soviet Union tested…

The end of the Second World War brought an economic and political crisis to the Soviet Union. The Cold War added forty-five years of geopolitical tension between powers in the Eastern Bloc and powers in the Western Bloc. The Soviet Union and the United States of America fought as allies in the Second World War. However, their relationship during the war was simply the result of having Nazi Germany as a mutual enemy. Rivalry between the Soviet Union and the United States of America to become the…

In the Truman Doctrine, President Truman wants to contain the expansion of communism everywhere, especially trying to prevent the USSR from expanding out more. Basically America supported and assisted all democratic countries, which are in any way being threatened by the Soviet Union. Truman believe that if one country fell into control of communism then other countries surrounding it would sooner or later experience the same effects. This was called the Domino Effect, in which one by one each…

1. World War II had four outcomes. What were they? The most important outcome was the emergence of two superpowers United States and the Soviet Union. The second outcome was the differences between these two superpowers in both national interests and ideology. The United States democratic liberalism was based on an economic system that provided opportunities to individuals without government interference: capitalism. However, the Soviet state embraced Marxist ideology, which holds that under…

Wars created a climate in which preventing neutral trade from occurring was a beneficial strategy because regulations were being passed to force the other’s hand, and the war had entered a military deadlock. Initially France passed a law known as the Berlin Decree, which meant that any vessel that was in a French port after visiting a British port could be seized ("French revolutionary and Napoleonic…

started in an intense 13-day political and military fight in October in 1962 over the nuclear-armed Soviet missiles on Cuba. October 22, 1962, President John. F Kennedy notified citizens about the missiles, then explained his decision to make a naval blockade around Cuba and made it clear that the United States was prepared if anything came to the point where they had to start firing. However, the starting of a nuclear war was avoided when the U.S agreed to Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev’s…

As stated by Anderson, S., Peterson, M., & Tops, S., “ Africa is perhaps the least understood continent in the world. Misperceptions about African civilization and peoples have abandoned since European traders, slavers, and imperialists came into greater contact with Africans in the sixteenth century.” Africa located in a very special region, i.e. between Americans Continents, Europe, Asia, and Australia continents. It is bounded by the Atlantic Ocean on the west, the Mediterranean Sea on the…

NO. 1: Introduce the movie by stating that you’ve just seen this movie and would like to give an opinion about it. Mention a couple of details that might help the reader understand what type of movie you are talking about. In October of 1962, the United States and the Soviet Union became embroiled in a confrontation that could easily have escalated into nuclear war. Many of the details of that confrontation, which is known as the Cuban Missile Crisis, are brilliantly dramatized by the…

The Cold War was a rivalry between the United States and Soviet Union, as events swept the nation with their thirst of beating the other. Although this mainly took place between the two, major effects dominated over the rest of the world as their rivalry affected other Nations around them. Many countries had been affected by the Cold War and some had serious consequences. Knowing what was going on during the Cold War will perhaps give an explanation to how this played out for the rest of the…

Factors That Led to Post War Red Scare Tia Brown AMH 2020/2042 June 11, 2017 After World War II, an anti-communist movement emerged in the United States. This period, which was known as the Red Scare, emerged after the war in the mid-1940’s and lasted into the 1950’s. During the Red Scare, the fear of communism was prevalent both within the government and among private citizens. There were a variety of factors, both international and domestic, that led to the post war Red Scare, and…