Cold Turkey

JFK’s Responses and their Consequences The two aforementioned men set up this crisis. However, President John F. Kennedy had the world’s fate in his hands. Every decision that he made would be vital in the way that the crisis played out, and if he had made just a couple more mistakes, then a nuclear war might’ve started. But what the American citizens did not know at the time was that his decisions were based more off of his personal experiences rather than off the information from his…

War has always been a controversial issue in the United States. For a war to get public approval, the government has to successfully justify the war and lay out a clear plan for its quick and honorable end. Most wars have been justified as being for the defense of the United States or its interests. Prior to and including World War II, if the President decided that war was needed, he would ask Congress for an official declaration of war. This process is enumerated in Article 1, Section 8 of the…

let alone on actual people. Finally, any positive diplomatic effects the bomb might have brought about were either nonexistent or overshadowed by the cost of the moral high-ground the US enjoyed before its use: tensions with the Soviets worsened, the Cold War became inevitable, and millions of people were affected. Thus the use of the atomic bomb was a diplomatic blunder to say the…

While the United States and the Soviet Union were already in Korea, the United Nations should not have let them attempt to create the government there. The United States and the Soviet Union may have agreed to peacefully set up the government, however the United Nations should have been able to sense that there would still be problems. The United States and the Soviet Union have clashing ideologies and governments. The Soviet Union has a communist government and the United States has a democracy…

Ronald Reagan has always been known as one of the greatest speakers of all time. His words influences the mass of people and in this speech, he does the same as always. This Speech was the best speech of President Reagan’s era of presidency because it has a large amount of substance, addresses: pathos, logos, and ethos, and a strong organization pattern. He speaks to the American people one last time for his goodbye address. I was literally amazed by this speech by him as I have never really…

In the beginning, it was established that Japan that was in control of Korea from the annexation they made in 1910. April 1945 the Yalta Conference agreed to make a four power trusteeship for Korea near the end of World War two. Korea was split into two pieces, North and South Korea. The United States had control of the southern part of Korea below the 38th parallel, and the Soviet Union occupying the northern area. Later on in that year it was settled that the country would be reconnected and…

Communist countries resulted in nearly 50 years of conflict. After World War I, the first Red Scare spread throughout the country. Following World War II, a second Red Scare occurred. A second Red Scare occurred due to problems that started during the Cold War. The years following World War I, filled with strong patriotic feelings among Americans, gave many people sense of pride never discovered before. These feelings added to the following problems. The first Red Scare occurred during the last…

for control of the world. This city becomes a symbol of the split between two very different worlds. That is what the city of Berlin, Germany was during the Cold War, a competition between the Capitalist United States of America and the Communist Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, or the Soviet Union. Berlin became a symbol of what the Cold War was doing to the world. Husbands and wives, brothers and sisters, entire families were severed apart by the two superpowers struggling to spread their…

The transition from liberal to conservative ideas was caused by the Civil Rights Movement, American involvement in Vietnam, and the mistrust of the government. The general population was ready to move past the civil rights movement in which the democrats in office were so invested. The Vietnam War was deepened solely by democratic presidents. The corruption within the Democratic Party pushed them out of office. Though each factor allowed for the transition, the end of the democratic rule started…

and stones.” While he died during the earlier years of the Cold War, a decades-long conflict that never led to any combat but did cause intense strain, competition, and espionage between the two global superpowers of the United States and the Soviet Union, his statement proved to be remarkably prescient. David Hoffman structures his whole book on the horrifically powerful and destructive weapons produced during the arms race of the Cold War that are still here in the present day that have the…