Cuban American

The American professor Robert H. Goddard had worked on developing solid-fuel rockets since 1914, and demonstrated a light battlefield rocket to the US Army Signal Corps only five days before the signing of the armistice that ended World War I. He also started developing liquid-fueled rockets in 1921; yet he had not been taken seriously by the public.[19] Von Braun and his team were sent to the United States Army's White Sands Proving Ground, located in New Mexico, in 1945.[20] They set about…

There were many similarities and differences in the Foreign policies of the U.S. and U.S.S.R. during the Cold War. For example, they were the only two nuclear powers at the time, which made them the other as their enemy that they want to see fall. Nuclear realities made forced them to live with each other. They avoided directly attacking each other. Second, both nations used developing countries for proxy fighting. Both nations gave military weapons and training, as well as money to advance…

This film covers the thirteen day period in October of 1962 where John F. Kennedy fought to keep the Cuba Missile Crisis from leading to the third world war. The movie follows the life of Kenny O’Donnell, Special Assistant to President, and his involvement with this situation. The event began when U-2 fighter jets flew over Cuba while taking photographs of the land below, reveling nuclear missles brought there by the Soviets. President Kennedy was left with a very hard decision. The options…

Because of John F. Kennedy’s contributions to society, we avoided nuclear war with the Soviet Union, by building a military blockade to prevent any future missiles from entering Cuba and because of Kennedy’s several negotiations with Nikita Khrushchev. This major crisis in October of 1962 was a major problem in the during the Cold War between the U.S. and the Soviet Union. It was a thirteen day-long dispute over Soviet missiles positioned in Cuba, only about 90 miles away from Florida.…

I chose to watch the movie 13 Days about the Cuban Missile Crisis in October of 1962. There was so much tension in the world at the time with the two world superpowers being the USA and the USSR. Something was bound to happen. Mid October, the President of the United States of America, John F. Kennedy was told that there were 32 Mid Range Ballistic Missiles in Cuba that were being assembled by Soviets. Eventually this escalated to around 40 Intercontinental Ballistic Missiles. This was a really…

Davis & Co. The Cold War. Have you ever wondered how the two strongest nations battled and how it ended? have you wondered how it affected them? Before we start you need to know a little about the Cold war and how the tension affected the world by having the main superpowers threaten each other which affected their economics. “The cold war started when two nations fought for influence, and power”. (Green) The cold war started in 1946, lasted forty five years, and ended in 1996. The two…

On October the 27th of 1962, a Soviet missile shot down a U-2 reconnaissance plane over Cuba. Appropriate action must be taken to help avoid a third world war. The decision to not go to war and make another attempt at peace must prevail. It must prevail for the sake of saving millions of civilian lives whom need not be subjected to another war, a war on a much larger and more destructive scale. Beyond that, how would the United States look on a global scale where we would be seen as declaring…

His speech was around a period when the Soviet Union had just gained power. Americans were fearful due to that reason. The main purpose of his speech was to get Americans to unite. He was calling for peace for all of mankind. Kennedy’s main goal was to promote democracy and peace. Kennedy was informing about the new tactics that he would use to solve issues; he was also promoting patriotism for the country. He wanted Americans to look at his victory in the election for “celebration of…

“Harrison Bergeron” is a fictitious story written by Kurt Vonnegut in October of 1961. During the time period in which it was published, the Soviet Union (USSR) was still in power. The Soviet Union was a communist society that used force from “secret police”, whose main objective was to censor the people. The story “Harrison Bergeron” has a similar approach set in a dystopian society in the year 2081. In this society “Everybody was finally equal....Nobody was smarter than anybody else. Nobody…

From my point of view, our team process was a journey, and in some ways, it felt like a marathon instead of what I thought would be an easy sprint. Early on in class when we were all introduced to this Leadership in Movies Project I thought it would be a fun way to work in close collaboration with classmates with classmates whom I had never known before. The task of finding a movie was the beginning of how our group started to bond. In hindsight, this assignment could be considered our…