Cuban exile

Castro’s concerns were with the people of Latin America. In the interview he not only identified as Cuban but also as Latin American. He sympathized with the people of other Latin nations. He supported their rebellions and wished the same for all people living under repressive Latin American regimes (Castro). As people with a common identity he wanted…

The U-2 Incident 1960 was written during the Cold War. Tensions between the United Staes of America and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics were running high with the possible of threat of a nuclear surprise attack from either side. There had been an attempt to reduce these tensions in the Geneva Summit of 1955 by Dwight D. Eisenhower where he had proposed the open-skies proposal. The proposal intended for the U.S and the U.S.S.R to trade military base maps to allow each other to act on…

During the Cold War, there were a series of moments when the world seemed on the brink of nuclear annihilation. The closest of these moments was the Cuban Missile Crisis in 1962, and it left a lasting feeling of pessimism in the global atmosphere. The United States and the Soviet Union had been actively involved in an arms race and many feared that continued escalation would result in direct conflict between the two superpowers and their respective allies. It was in this atmosphere of…

During the 1960’s there were many advancements in technology shaping the course of the world today. Many of these advances were dictated by events facing the populus of the American people at the time. Vietnam, watergate, the cold war and woodstock all had influences on the technological advancement of the time. From government conspiracies, spies and peace loving hippies: all these factors played a critical roles in the shaping the technological landscape of that era as well as the push for…

October 9th, 1962, the long awaited parade of the Szczecin military was traveling down the street. Little did anyone expect such a tragedy to occur. The year of 1962 in Poland was already a tense and hectic year. With the growing tension of the Cuban Missile Crisis, and the threat of war between the Western and Eater Bloc, ideas for lightening the mood were needed. With this is mind, The Warsaw Pact decided to organize huge military exercises, located in northwest Poland, around the area of…

throughout the cold war. In this paper, you are gonna find out how he used this policy in the events of The Cuban Missile Crisis, The Berlin Wall, and The Peace Corps during the cold war. During his time as president, John F. Kennedy has to handle several huge events that had to do with the Cold War. One of these that he handled very successfully was The Cuban Missile Crisis. The Cuban Missile Crisis took place during October of 1962. It can pretty much be summed up as how America and…

Cuba and the Missile Crisis The Cuban missile crisis can be examined in a 3 different parts. One, the form of communications between the United States and the Soviets, who did both countries go about communicating with one another? Maybe the communications between the two were not as clear or if there were constant communications between the countries the crisis would never have occurred. Second, eventually communications between the two countries stopped and none reached out to begin…

photos of Soviet soldiers setting up missiles in Cuba that were in line with southern Florida. The Soviet’s decision to secretly place nuclear missiles in Cuba pointing toward the U.S initiated a series of events which became known as the Cuban Missile Crisis. The Cuban Missile Crisis was a fourteen day period in October where the world was on the brink of a nuclear war. It also was a conflict between USSR…

John F Kennedy. John F Kennedy was born on May 29th, 1917, in Brookline, Massachusetts to parents Joseph and Rose Kennedy. John, often called Jack, was the second of nine children and was often sick throughout his childhood. John lived a well-rounded life despite his many ailments. While attending Harvard University; he traveled to Europe with his father. He wrote a senior thesis: “Appeasement in Munich” which looked into the failures of the British government during World War II. With the…

The Cuban Missile Crisis is one of the most studied events in world history. The United States never came so close to an all-out nuclear war with the Soviet Union or any other nation than it did during this time. The resulting 13 day political and military standoff beginning in October 1962 over the building of nuclear-armed Soviet missiles in Cuba would shape the way in which the United States conducted their foreign policy for decades to follow. The 1960s was a times of global shift as the…