Cold War leaders

Prior to Ronald Reagan taking office in 1981, the Cold War impasse felt like a victory for the American people. However, Ronald Reagan did not see victory, he saw this stalemate as weak and un-American. Reagan’s new take on dealing with the Soviet Union can be summarized in two words: God and Freedom. With these two guiding principles, Reagan ditched dètente and got fellow world leaders like Margaret Thatcher and Pope John Paul II to join with him against the “evil empire.” With the “renewal of…

to take in order to eliminate the crisis in Cuba. John F. Kennedy responded to the citizens of Cuba, the Soviet Union, and the United States with the goal of encouraging Cuba to be a part of a "free world" , as opposed to a "communist world" ("The Cold"). The speech was established to encourage the Cubans to remove the idea of communism, in favor of capitalism, to go against The Soviet Union. His speech was directly about the findings of the missiles that Khrushchev and Castro have placed in…

nuclear conflict arising in the midst of the Cold War, shaping the history and leadership roles of the Americans, Soviets, and Cubans for several decades to come. This conflict gave rise to a renewed stance on international negotiations and diplomacy with these nations and their political leaders under the global spotlight for the entire process. The Cuban Missile Crisis in essence was a tense political and militaristic standoff between Soviet and American leaders triggered by the installation…

The reading from this class have helped me put those two assessments of the life of the Cuban leader, Fidel Castro, into perspective by allowing me understand how certain events that happened around the world. They help me see the impacted that Castro had on the life of Cubans. I had been exposed to The Cold War and some of the events related to Cuba like the Bay of Pigs and the Cuban Missile Crisis but, that was a while back. So, if I tried to put these two assessments into perspective before…

Throughout the Cold War the U.S passed series of plans to stop the spread of communism. The United States used the policy of containment to prevent the spread of communism abroad. After World War two, the U.S and the Soviet Union were the two undisputable world powers, and so each nation wanted world influence. After World War Two the world became bipolar, the two most powerful nations were the Soviet Union and the United States. They were the two countries with any power left after the…

After spending your entire childhood growing up in an underground shelter, you wake up one day to find your father has abandoned your home, which is forbidden by your society’s leader. After a not so friendly encounter your leader and the security force you manage to escape your home, looking back it was a more of a prison. You open a battered door outside of the cave that the massive entrance to the shelter is located in and you get hit with the warmth of sunlight for the first time in 18…

challenged and banned because of these conflicting views but are more easily broken into four main topics: Religious, Social, Sexual, and Political. The book Animal Farm by George Orwell, explores the social and political challenges emerging prior to the Cold War. Animal Farm was published in 1945 by Harcourt,Inc. and has been challenged by many such as teachers, cities, states, and even entire continents. To fully understand why this book has been challenged, readers must know that the book…

very powerful and murderous dictator of the Soviet Union. He was a member of the Communist Party and became the leader of the Soviet Union from 1929 until his death in 1953. Joseph Stalin ruled the Soviet Union with an “iron fist” by having complete control over his people and leading his country through World War II and the start of the Cold War. When Joseph Stalin became the leader of the Soviet Union, he also became a dictator. A dictator is a ruler with total power or is someone who rules…

creation of a strategic defense system as powerful as SDI had an incredible impact on the course of the Cold War, rendering Mutually Assured Destruction Doctrine (MAD) inconsequential. MAD signified a promise that if one country used nuclear weapons or other WMD’s on another country, the country at fault would face an immediate counterattack. The doctrine came into play after years of Cold War technology allowed the USA and the USSR to attack each other, but had no way of defending home soil…

of the Cold War happened in the late 1980s and was made of serendipity, if not outright luck. The unlikely combination of United States President Ronald Reagan and USSR Head of State Mikhail Gorbachev, two devoted nationalist respectively, created the perfect storm for easing of tensions between the longtime enemies. By addresses each leaders individual personalities, early encounters, and collaborations, we can see the major impact Reagan and Gorbachev’s relationship had on the Cold War and…