Cuban Revolution

It’s the Cuban Missile Crisis, October 1962, as history is concerned the crisis was averted but what if it wasn’t.The U.S. would receive nuclear missiles first decimating Florida’s inland. Next, the U.S would deploy countermeasures to Cuba’s missile silos and firing ranges. More than likely using ballistic missiles (given the moral values of the U.S.). However, this would not work because Cuba and the U.S.S.R are not stupid and would have fired all missiles at once. The U.S. would fire all of…

One of the most intense parts of the Cold War was the Cuban Missile Crisis. The conflict of the Cuban Missile Crisis happened when Fidel Castro overthrew the previous leader, Fulgencio Batista. The book “John F. Kennedy Vs. Nikita Khrushchev” by Ellis Roxburgh states, "In 1959, Fidel Castro led a rebellion on the island to overthrow the corrupt dictator Fulgencio Batista. The United States had supported Batista and had many business interests in Cuba.” The U.S. approved of the previous leader,…

I agree with the previous writer in terms of the risk Khrushchev took by placing nuclear missiles on Cuba. However, the risk lay largely in the fact that the Soviet deployment was done in secret rather than an in the open deployment of these weapons itself. I would even speculate that a skillful public announcement of the Soviet intentions, perhaps through the United Nations, in which the Khrushchev explained that US nuclear missiles in Europe pointing at the Soviet Union is comparable for the…

of eradicating the regime of Fidel Castro, the embargo has oppressed the Cuban people and has disclosed a more substantial communist dominance on Cuba. As evident, the embargo has weakened Cuba's economy and has made Cuban citizens more vulnerable and increased the likelihood to follow and obey Castro, as they see the U.S as the true cause of their problems. An example displayed in the article "How The Embargo Hurts Cubans And Helps Castro" states, “Although Castro clamors for an end to it, I…

sets up a platform for equal trade between the countries. The author of the article “President Obama takes a controversial step removing Cuba from terror list” wrote," Since Obama and Castro announced they would move toward normalization, high-level Cuban and U.S. officials have held three…

“Thirteen Days” is a movie portraying the story of President Kennedy’s (and everyone who works for and with him) struggle, of the long, agonizing 13 days of the Cuban Missile Crisis in October of 1962. Overall, I thought it was a really good movie. It showed the struggle and all of the worries that everyone had to overcome during this chaotic time. The main issue of this movie was that the Soviet Union had missiles down in Cuba and the United States was worried they could attack. The movie…

was the job of the man. (D#1). In document 5, which is a picture of Mexican ladies holding guns because they are soldiers, the notion that women should stay at home is undermined. Having woman be soldiers and fight for a side during the Mexican revolution is revolutionary because most men back then agreed woman should stay out of the job affairs of men but now women challenge that notion with them doing a job that is considered a job done by men because it’s the duty of men to protect. (D#5).…

J. K. Rowling, in Harry Potter and the Prizoner of Azkaban, states that “...the world isn’t split into good people and Death Eaters. We've all got both light and dark inside us.” Jack Merridew, an innocent twelve year old at the start of the novel, Lord of the Flies, and Ralph, also an innocent school boy in the beginning , portray the very thing Rowling talks about. All people have both light and dark in them. By the conclusion of Lord of the Flies, both innocent schoolboys have turned into…

The author Salman Rushdie asks a very compelling question which is, are the Sandinistas the young girl or the jaguar? Rushdie visited Nicaragua as an impartial observer, he was invited by the Sandinista Cultural Workers Assn., and he is being escorted all around the country to meet with the top commanders. After three weeks on constant interviews with the commanders and several encounters with folk people in cities such as Matagalpa and Bluefield’s. He is soon becomes a believer to “las causa”,…

The 19th and 20th centuries were full of movements, reform, and factors that shaped the identity of America. Some examples were the Progressive and Imperialist Movements, America’s involvement in WWI, and Overseas Expansion. These events created both positive and negative outcomes for the US, and we eventually emerged as a world power as a result of social, political, and economic factors. America made choices that would act in their own interest as a nation, which follows the idea of…