Intercontinental ballistic missile

emergency broadcast comes to informing him that North Korea has launched nuclear warheads that are to land in several big cities. That is what many people imagine when they hear “North Korea” and “Nuclear Strike”. When North Korea first launched its missile in February the rest of the world went on red alert, many people now believe they are a serious threat to the United States, because of how quickly they are advancing their military technology, the U.N should continue to tighten sanctions as…

exiles landed on the Cuba Bay of Pigs and they were killed or captured. But President Kennedy took full responsibility for this. The Cuban missile crisis had also happened during the cold war. It was when Russia was building missiles to attack on Cuba or in other terms to test them out on them. But JFK had built a naval blockade near Cuba lines where the missiles would interact with them. At the end of this crisis it did leave a little tension between U.S and Soviet…

began its orbit, Americans feared that the Soviets had the capabilities to drop intercontinental ballistic missiles that could deliver nuclear payloads with the potential ability to destroy large cities and financial centers within The United States. At the time, policy leaders at the Pentagon encouraged The United States government to allocate more funding and time towards space exploration in order to close the “missile gap,” between American and Soviet technology. This sparked incentives of…

The Cold War was a state of tension between the United States of America and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, better known as the USSR, lasting almost forty five years from 1947 to 1991. There are an abundance of reasons as to why The Cold War broke out after World War II including the fear of communism, and the competition of nuclear weapons. The Cold War also heavily impacted the United States of America politically, socially, and economically. One of the causes of The Cold War was…

race and an arms race. Because of the pressure to be first, America and the Soviet Union had a heap of new discoveries and achievements. Some of which include the first satellite in space, first man on the moon, the laser, rocket ship, Intercontinental Ballistic Missiles, and many more inventions. In turn,…

The Cold War started in 1941 was fought on geopolitical tension after world war 2. There was two powers the Eastern Bloc which was the Soviet Union and its satellite states and the Western Bloc which was the United States and its NATO allies. The Eastern Bloc was supporting communism. The western bloc would be supporting capitalism. The Eastern Bloc would contain the countries such as Vietnam, Soviet Union, Korea, Cuba, Hungary, Bulgaria, Lao, and China. The Eastern Bloc was more communism this…

In A Separate Peace by John Knowles, the main character states, “I could never agree with either of them. It would have been comfortable, but I could not believe it. Because it seemed clear that wars were not made by generations and their special stupidities, but that wars were made instead by something ignorant in the human heart” (201). Here, the ignorance rooted in the human heart is that towards good and truth. When a person is blinded by his own selfishness, he breaks away from the…

Liars and those who doublespeak are in our daily lives, but how are they different from each other? In “The Ways We Lie” by Stephanie Ericsson and “The World of Doublespeak” by William Lutz, they portray doublespeak and lies as being similar with very few differences. Similarities between those that doublespeak and lie are how both mislead and deceive others. The results of such can be harmful. First of all, liars and double-speakers within “The Ways We Lie” and “The World of Doublespeak” have…

Ask Not... Every president-elect has the job of giving an inaugural address. These addresses are meant to unite the nation behind our new president, and give a little insight into how he will run the White House. JFK’s inaugural address on January 21, 1960, set the stage for one of the greatest presidencies this country has ever known.. His address is extremely charismatic and brings together the people of this country through several ways of persuasion. He uses narration, comparison,…

The Cold War began during World War II when Stalin’s distrust of the United States and Britain kept growing as they refused to invade Europe. After World War II, the USSR and the United States continued to antagonize each other through propaganda, economic aid, and proxy wars between other nations. From the beginning, the United States had the advantage because they had more money and power, and could provide Europe protection while they rebuilt. This was a war fought without engaging in full…