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remembered for a few great accomplishments during his term as well as a couple major failures. The main accomplishments of JFK’s presidency include the enacting of the Peace Corps, the Space Program, the 24th Amendment, Cold War management, and the Cuban Missile Crisis. The failures of the presidency were seen mainly in the Bay of Pigs invasion and the inability for JFK to pass any legislation regarding civil rights. The positive aspects of Kennedy’s presidency highlight his ability to…

atomic bomb in 1949. This made USA feel threatened hence they moved on to developing hydrogen bombs to have an upper hand over ussr again, but in 1953 ussr was able to catch up once more. Hence the we moved towards building a number of long range missiles including Atlas, ICBMs, jupiter, IRBMs and SLBMs. Thus USA did have a technological edge over the USSR, but USSR kept challenging that not just by their nuclear weapons but even by their space satellites as in 1957 Sputnik 1 was launched by the…

Conspiracy Theory On September 11, 2001 a catastrophic event occurred in New York. The twin towers were struck by two aircrafts and they collapsed in just minutes. This horrific event ended in about 3,000 people killed or severely injured. After this there was a lot of controversy about the event and many scientists and authors started putting out conspiracy theories about the event. Some of these conspiracy theories are completely irrelevant and some are believable, which caused me to go into…

The end of the Second World War brought an economic and political crisis to the Soviet Union. The Cold War added forty-five years of geopolitical tension between powers in the Eastern Bloc and powers in the Western Bloc. The Soviet Union and the United States of America fought as allies in the Second World War. However, their relationship during the war was simply the result of having Nazi Germany as a mutual enemy. Rivalry between the Soviet Union and the United States of America to become the…

during warfare. The word 'catapult' comes from the Latin 'catapulta'. Castles and fortified walled cities were common during this period – and catapults were used as a key siege weapon against them. As well as attempting to breach the walls,flammable missiles could be thrown inside—or early biological warfare attempted with diseased carcasses or rotten garbage catapulted over the walls. The Medieval Catapults history dates back to ancient times. Various types of Medieval Catapults were used by…

In the past months, rising tension between North Korea and the United States have raised some eyebrows and caused some to have growing concerns in terms of how the issue may pan out. The tension between the United States and North Korea will most likely not escalate enough to a nuclear war, according to former defense secretary, William J. Perry, who states that “North Korea is incredibly unlikely to launch an unprovoked nuclear attack.” This may ease some fears on the growing concerns of war…

war was never really fought nobody attacked each other. Each country "fighting" this pacifistic war possessed weapons of mass destruction. Nuclear weapons, such as the sodium-twenty two gravity bomb and the ASMP stand-off attack missile, Pluto and Hades ballistic missiles were used to threaten each country. The second thing that this essay will talk about is what weapons did the united states and the soviet union use during the cold war. The united states and the soviet union made mostly…

crew were all eventually saved thanks to his hard work, perseverance, and leadership qualities. His intelligence was also shown when he dealt with the Cuban Missile Crisis. The Cuban Missile Crisis was between the United States, the Soviet Union, and Cuba. It started when the threat of Fidel Castro allowing the Soviet Union to have nuclear missiles on the island of Cuba arose. Cuba, which was only ninety miles off the coast of Florida, was Communist and held a huge threat to the United States,…

speed of the asteroid, then calculating it time. After that we do a time dilation to determine the time we have left in our reference frame. After that we can determine its location and how long we will have to create a missile to destroy it, however I suggest creating a generic missile framework now.” This initially stupid idea now seemed like the divine intervention the world would need. Immediately the scientist began to work. Soon a rover was retrieved and prep for launch. In the essence of…

1962 an American spy plane photographed nuclear missile sites being built by the soviet union on an island of Cuba. Kennedy did not want the Soviet Union to know that he had discovered the missiles. He then meet with secret advisors to discuss the problem. After many long meeting President Kennedy had come up with a solution. America place a naval blockade around cuba, Kennedy demanded that they remove the missile and that they destroy the missile sites. Nikita Khrushchev, leader of the Soviet…