Nikita Khrushchev

the city of Berlin. This lets the audience knows he is serious about the matter and dedicated to the cause. One of the most important contrasts of time and space in Reagan’s speech is when he references Nikita Khrushchev and his failed prediction to rule the West. He says, “In the 1950s, Khrushchev predicted: ‘We will bury you.’ But in the West today, we see a free world that has achieved a…

USSR, had its roots in the early 1900s and has had multiple leaders. Each leader of the USSR had their own policies and legacies, which set themselves apart from one another. One of these leaders was Leonid Brezhnev, who was the successor of Nikita Khrushchev. Brezhnev rule was defined by his domestic policies, stagnation, and relations with the US. Although he brought much power and prestige to the Soviet Union, Leonid Brezhnev’s legacy is mostly remembered by his rule under the era of…

Joseph Stalin was born on December 18,1878, he was born into a poor family and was an only child. His father was a shoemaker, an his mom was a laundress. As a young child he contracted smallpox, which left him with many facial scars.When Stalin was in his teens he got a scholarship to a seminary in a city called Tblisi to study priesthood, in the Georgian Orthodox Church. In his free time there he secretly started reading the Communist Manifesto, by Karl Marx. He shortly got expelled for not…

same operation of the cold war. And this is what I meant when I say that McCarthy’s antics are the best that the Kremlin could have.” As McCarthyism is happening in the United States, Soviet leader Josef Stalin dies of a stroke. His successor, Nikita Khrushchev begins thinking of ways to scare the United States with the fear of Communism, he states that “"We will take America without firing a shot…….We will BURY YOU! We can’t expect the American People to jump from Capitalism to Communism, but…

were in a harsh war. The Soviet Premier Nikita was trying to order the hit on Kennedy. The Soviets and the U.S. were involved in a bitter cold war. Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev was mortified by having to back down after the Cuban Missile Crisis he ordered the hit on Kennedy. Lee Harvey Oswald’s linking to the USSR (Union of Soviet Socialist Republics) was…

After WWII tensions between the East and West would intensify following US concerns over Soviet plans for expansion and global influence, along with Russia’s attitude towards the West, which had put a strain on 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 goals of communist Russia. The creation of government agencies such as the CIA, MI6, and the KGB had been formed…

perceived five years before the start of Cold War. Gaddis also inspects some of the famous and important people who helped to resolve the war that had changed. Gaddis focuses on the Cuban errors of Nikita Khrushchev which resorted in President Kennedy misinterpreting and almost went to war. Khrushchev slipped rocket-fired weapons into Cuba, mostly as an effort to spread revolution throughout Latin America. Gaddis focuses on the early-1980s when Reagan 's was re-supplying with guns, missiles,…

After World War II, the United States and its allies, and the Soviet Union began a decades-long fight for superiority. This fight is known as the Cold War. Although the Soviet Union and the United States did not engage in physical combat or directly battle during the Cold War, they continually antagonized each other through political and economic clashes. One of the biggest and most memorable confrontations of the Cold War was the Cuban Missile Crisis. The Cuban Missile Crisis was the closest…

In a haunting prediction of his future, John Fitzgerald Kennedy perfectly described his legacy when he said “a man may die, nations may rise and fall, but an idea lives on”. The most distinctive feature that relates to John F. Kennedy is the phrase ‘a man may die’ due to his assassination, but his ideas and his presence still live in America. From every event that Kennedy endured in his presidency to the moment he was murdered, his life is preserved in the minds of those he influenced through…

the United States, Russia, and Cuba; it was an event that would have been felt around the world. Nuclear war would have been inevitable had neither side decided to back down. But due to the humility and cooperation of both John F. Kennedy and Nikita Khrushchev, a nuclear war, and undoubtedly a third world war, were averted. Without looking at the decisions made by John F. Kennedy and his staff in hindsight, I will explain why they made the right ones while also taking a closer look at the Cuban…