Nikita Khrushchev

people the way they did. The Great Purge finally came to a point where Stalin and his circle realized that the purges had gone too far but this didn 't mean he was going to stop. The arrest and executions continued until Stalin 's death in 1953. Nikita Khrushchev took over the powerful position and stopped all arrests, he agreed the purges had gone too far. Even though Stalin 's tactics were gone, millions of people were still separated from Children and loved…

The United States has had many successful and adored presidents that have made a difference in the country. One of the many successful presidents was John F. Kennedy. He was born in Brookline, Massachusetts into one of America’s wealthiest families on May 29, 1917. In 1960, at the age of 43, John F. Kennedy was elected the 35th president of the United States. John F. Kennedy was the one responsible for the Bay of Pigs failure, but he delivered one of his most famous speeches to West Berlin…

After the victory of World War 2 with the bombing of Nagasaki and Hiroshima, America lived in constant fear, especially children in schools. A film was shown to all students demonstrating survival techniques on a nuclear attack, and the image of little johnny showed how a nuclear attack can occur at any moment, thus giving them nightmares.(Cnn Duck and Cover).Living daily life with the fear of nuclear attacks isn’t a “happy” life since fear is a negative connotation. Happy days falls on the…

Although the United States did not enter the war on a much larger scale until 1965, the build up to war began many years beforehand. In fact, the United States had involvement in Vietnam dating all the way back to World War II when they had sought to end Japanese occupation in Southeastern Asia, including Vietnam. By aiding the Vietnamese guerilla fighters, also known as the “Viet-Minh”, the United States was able to assist the communist regime within Vietnam. The “Viet-Minh” were led by Ho Chi…

“My fellow Americans: ask not what your country can do for you--ask what you can do for your country” (Kennedy). The country of the United States is a symbol for freedom, strength, and perseverance. In the United States, the people always strive for the better, until the wars had ceased the advancements of the nation. World War II was a large weight for the citizens of the United States because they could no longer focus on internal matters in the country but of the world. So, when WWII ended,…

One of the most important conflicts in the history of the United States, was actually one that involved no fighting. For the second half of the twentieth century, the United States and Russia were in a race to develop the most nuclear weapons and to spread their political beliefs around the world. This conflict is know as the Cold War. It could have been one of the deadliest and most world involved wars know to man, but thankfully there was no fighting between the two nations. However, there was…

On August 13th of 1961, the infamous Berlin Wall was built. The barbed wire and concrete separated Berlin into two different zones; East and West Berlin. This wall stood as an iconic symbol of the Cold War. This wall created pain, sorrow, and suffering for all Germans. Over a long 28 years of the standing Berlin Wall, the concrete that divided Europe stood through the rigorous tensions of political and physical war. After WWII, Germany was split up into 4 different zones ruled by different…

govern the Kennedy administration in the President’s Inaugural speech. But in October of 1962, the Kennedy Administration found itself up against its most serious or major foreign policy crises yet. The leader of the Russians, Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev wanted to strengthen his relationship between the Soviet Union and Cuba (under leadership of Fidel…

At the Second Congress of the Russian Democratic Labor Party, it was agreed upon that Russia was in need of a revolution as the workers and peasants of the country were becoming dissatisfied with the Czar and the government. The end goal of the revolution was to be socialism. However, Congress split into two parties: the Bolsheviks (the majority) and the Mensheviks (the minority). The main disagreements revolved around party membership, with the Mensheviks arguing for a broad-based membership…

Throughout all the many president the United States has received to represent their country as the Commander in chief and have the power over wars we get involved in and also nuclear bombs, there are only a certain amount of presidents that i can actually say were the best. Barack Obama , John F Kennedy, Franklin D Roosevelt and Bill Clinton. I feel as if these are the best 4 presidents that the united states has had because they all played a huge role in helping the black community and also…