Nikita Khrushchev

his administration knew of the illegal missiles and delivered an ultimatum insisting on the removal, announcing an American “quarantine” of Cuba to force compliance with his demands. (Schwarz, 2013). In Soviet’s defense, the Soviet’s premier, Nikita Khrushchev decided stationing Soviet missiles in Cuba would help compensate for the imbalance between Soviet and American ICBMs (intercontinental ballistic missiles), gain leverage for Soviet policy goals in Europe and deter United States from…

This investigation responds to the question: why did the Polish destalinization riots succeed and the Hungarian rebellion fail during the Cold War? The scope of this investigation is Hungary and Poland in 1956. Two sources that help answer this question are a memorandum of a meeting from the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (the CPSU Politburo) and an article authored by Johanna Granville named “1956 Reconsidered: Why Hungary and Not Poland?”. Both encompass the two cases of Hungary and…

In 1959, the Cuban Missile Crisis began with the Bay of Pigs, when a guerilla warlord named Fidel Castro overthrew the current dictator of Cuba, General Fulgencio Batista. Originally, Castro promised the people of Cuba democracy, instead he instituted a socialist dictatorship. Over 100,000 Cubans fled their home with many coming to America in order to seek shelter from Castro’s regime. In April 1961, the CIA (Central Intelligence Agency) had a plan to invade Cuba using exiles as a trained Army…

After WWII tension between the East and West would intensify following the defeat of Hitler’s Germany as a new struggle for political influence would begin between the US and U.S.S.R. US concerns over Soviet plans for expansion and global influence, along with Russia’s attitude towards the West had raised concerns over any peaceful co-existence that the US may have envisioned. Similar to US concerns, Russian kremlin Joseph Stalin had also viewed the Western world as a threat to the long term…

By the end of World War II, only the Soviet Union and the United States were in a superior position. The Soviets only could boast of the Soviet army, which conquered Eastern Europe and militarily kept power. However, the United States not only became a superpower militarily, with a powerful army, navy, and air force, they were the only nation with nuclear weapons. Due to events at the time, the 3 presidents (Truman, Eisenhower, and Kennedy) all perceived the threat of the spread of Communism…

the post-Stalin Nikita Khrushchev’s leadership. In spite of Khrushchev’s downfall in 1965, the Chinese rejected any possibility of accommodation with the Soviet Union, meanwhile domestically pursuing a reversal of professionalization of the People’s Liberation Army to support its politicization doctrine. The major connection of these two policies exists in the ideological fissures derived from the late 1950s between the Chinese chairman Mao Zedong and the Soviet leader Khrushchev. A series of…

be made on the United States. However the fear of a close range attack was also shared by the Soviets, as the United States had long since made an agreement with Turkey and Italy to keep nuclear missiles pointed towards Moscow. Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev saw the deployment of missiles in Cuba as a strategic advantage and giving America “a taste of their own medicine.” Kennedy and his administration knew this was an offensive move by the Soviets, and decided to, after much careful…

into four occupation zones. The eastern part of the country went to the Soviet Union, while the western part went to the United States, Great Britain and eventually, France. To prevent the migration phenomenon and to control the eastern part, Nikita Khrushchev, Stalin's successor at the helm of the USSR, proposed and applied a fateful solution for this so-called "problem" –building the Berlin Wall. It commenced on August 13, 1961. The wall was stretching for about 103 mile, with 300…

James Turner Mr. Cadwallader Trident Government November 29, 2016 Cuban Missile Crisis During the 1960’s the United States came too close to comfort with nuclear war between both Cuba and The USSR. To give a quick overview of this situation The USSR placed nuclear missiles in Cuba which was only 90 miles from the coast of the United States. Once the United States got word of this we took immediate action by sending a naval blockade to prevent anymore missiles from entering into Cuba. This…

NO. 1: Introduce the movie by stating that you’ve just seen this movie and would like to give an opinion about it. Mention a couple of details that might help the reader understand what type of movie you are talking about. In October of 1962, the United States and the Soviet Union became embroiled in a confrontation that could easily have escalated into nuclear war. Many of the details of that confrontation, which is known as the Cuban Missile Crisis, are brilliantly dramatized by the…