Nikita Khrushchev

When you think about war, what do you think about? Maybe airplanes dropping bombs, fighter jets, people at war fighting, mass destruction? Is there a war that didn’t involve any of these actions, but involved tension between multiple countries that lasted numerous decades? Yes, there is a war like this, it’s known as the Cold War. Even though the Cold War wasn’t a war, it consisted of wars and events that almost lead to world destruction. This event lasted a little more than four decades, from…

It is hard to say if there was ever a perfect time in America. In every decade since the birth of the “greatest” nation ever established, there has been some sort of fear apparent in our society. From wars at home to wars on foreign grounds and economic, social or cultural problems there does not seem to be a time in America when all Americans felt secure. A campaign for the 2016 American presidency utilizes the slogan “Make America Great Again,” this time of apparent greatness the candidate…

Atomic weapons are quickly turning into a tremendous threat to the whole world. While they may have been a route for the bigger nations to keep the peace on the planet at a certain point, the littler more radical nations are beginning to get them now and it 's representing a genuine danger to the world as we probably am aware it. Particularly with the two superpowers of the world inconsistent with one another and both having the most atomic weapons on the planet, as expressed by Robert S. Norris…

Fidel Castro is revered as one of the most prominent communist leaders of the last century. On August 13, 1926 Fidel Castro was born in Birán, Cuba to his parents Angel Castro y Agrgiz and Lina Ruz Gonzalez. Fidel had six siblings consisting of four sisters and two brothers. His brothers were Raul and Ramon Castro, and his sisters went by the names of Juanita, Angelita, Enma, and Augustina Castro. His dad was a Spanish immigrant who made a fortune constructing railroad systems with the means of…

Missile Crisis.3 The Cuban missile crisis is arguably the most dangerous confrontation of the Cold War and is the closest the U.S. came to having a full fledged nuclear battle.3 In October of 1962 an agreement was made by Fidel Castro of Cuba and Nikita Khrushchev of the USSR. It placed nuclear missiles in Cuba as a defense tactic to prevent a future invasion of the country. The conflict was able to come to a resolution when the Soviet Union finally agreed to take missiles out of Cuba, and this…

a U2 spy plane snapped a series of photos that showed evidence of Soviet mid-range nuclear ballistic missiles. The U.S responded with a blockade of ships termed a “quarantine”. Even though tensions came to an end with a secret deal made with Nikita Khrushchev, this showed the world how…

The First of its Kind Clouds of something that appeared to be smoke reached the line of soldiers waiting to fight. Immediately, the soldiers began to cough, gag and choke. Their eyes started stinging and watering, and they fell backwards into the trenches. The soldiers tried to duck and avoid the smoke in their dugouts, but it soon followed. Those who did not fall ran trying to abandon the clouds of smoke, but this was no regular smoke (Kennedy 53). It was chlorine gas that German forces used to…

Looking back in history, the 1950’s and the 1960’s are a time of tense foreign relations with the Soviet Union and domestic social conformity. The Federal Government, along with corporate entities, peddled a narrative of anti-communist propaganda by pushing for the ideals of a nuclear family and consumerism. Anti-Communist propaganda shaped the social and political lifestyle for Americans across the country. Because the Federal Government shaped the social norms of this era, Americans were…

the most notable example of communism is that of the government of the Soviet Union which was established on December 30th, 1922 and dissolved on December 26th, 1991. Notable leaders of the Soviet Union include Vladimir Lenin, Joseph Stalin, Nikita Khrushchev, and Mikhail…

SYNOPSIS The anatomy of President John Fitzgerald Kennedy’s assassination has fuelled an increasing diversity of historical views, each theorizing different groups or individuals as conspirators in the plot to murder Kennedy, in accordance with their viable motives. Disputing what was deduced by the Warren Commission asserting that Harvey Lee Oswald, ex-U.S. and defector to the Soviet Union, as the lone assassin, prominent theories that have been devised include those which purport the C.I.A,…