Congress of Soviets

moon. However, many explanations for the attempt to go to the moon are very compelling. One explanation was that America had to keep up with and surpass Soviet advances in outer space because of the Cold War. After the USSR launched Sputnik in 1957, fear erupted across America, both inside the government and throughout the population, that the Soviets could be watching their every move. This fear started the space race. The end goal of that space race had to be something that would prove one…

Charley Du Charley Du Charley Du Charley Du In the same vein, Allison’s definitions of Rational Policy, Organizational Process and Bureaucratic Politics Models are not convincingly distinct. He states that a government consists of several organizations which create a loose alliance in the Organizational Process Model and that the leaders of such organizations have their own distinct will as well in the Bureaucratic Politics Model. His best attempt at explaining the different models and…

intelligence (OSINT) and other collection methods were used to monitor one another. A major player in the Cold War, among others, was the former Soviet Union, which is what the world knows today as Russia. Like many nations, the Russian Intelligence Community is made up of multiple agencies which operate in different capacities. Though…

Americans to address the nation on the events taking place. Kennedy informed the nation of the Soviet nuclear missiles on the island of Cuba. The fourteen- day phenomenon sent the United States government into a scramble to decide what they were to do, and how to go about doing so. The President took immediate action calling upon the CIA and Secretary of Defense, Communicating directly with the Soviet leader, Nikita Khrushchev, Kennedy’s own view on peace, and eventually an official trade…

globalization is a free market capitalism. Today we are in a state where networks of interdependence allow for an easy flow of trade, ideas, people, and more increasingly environmental impacts. Democracy and capitalism spread after the fall of the Soviet Union and the end of the Cold War. Although forms of Globalism have existed throughout history such as during “the age of imperialism,” the impact has never been as great as today. Starting in 1990’s in particular a surge in technologies have…

left only two countries standing, the superpowers of the Soviet Union and the United States. These countries had very different ideologies, the Soviet Union was communist and the United States was capitalist. The Soviet Union was a totalitarian regime and the US was democratic. Both countries wanted the world to take on their ideology and a struggle began between them to expand their ideology globally. Although the Stalin and the Soviet Union had promised that they would allow Eastern Europe…

east. In a speech Churchill remarked, “An iron curtain has descended across the Continent.” Thus the strategy of the United States developed to ensure that arch of Soviet influence remained contained within those established lines. Not long after, communism breached those lines, as Stalin attempted to strong-arm Iran and Turkey under Soviet Control, and the first signs of containment conflicts between communism and democracy appeared in Greece, with their civil war. US President Harry Truman…

This was the start of WWII. Over 45 million people killed with over 6 million Jews included were casualties of this war, the Jews were murdered as a part of Hitlers “Final Solution” plan, now known as the Holocaust. - BlitzKrieg – By September 17, soviet troops joined in the invasion of Poland…

The issue of containment has long been one that permeated the cold war. The idea behind the Truman Doctrine was to provide assistance to countries who were at risk of being taken by communism. It offered a new wave of American Foreign policy. In previous years we had only become involved in conflict when it directly impacted us as a country. But this changed with the Truman Doctrine. The Truman Doctrine essentially gave countries that had internal or external pressure to join the communist…

U.S Foreign Policy After World War II, America and the Soviet Union were the two major powers who competed for markets and resources. At the same time, communism was taking over in the Soviet Union, China and Eastern Europe. This communist takeover led to the Red Scare and shocked the American public with fear that communism would spread all throughout the world. Due to United States’ desire to contain communism and secure foreign markets and resources, confusing foreign policy decisions were…