Nikita Khrushchev

Joseph Stalin’s Industrialization of the Country, 1928, represents his all-encompassing sweeping push to reform The Soviet Union into a country that would have the technological and industrial capabilities to play a large role in the international affairs of the world. As it occurred through some periods of Russia’s history, starting with Peter the Great’s push for urbanization, Stalin desired to transform the USSR from a “backwater” nation into a force that could be on-par with some of the most…

The reading from this class have helped me put those two assessments of the life of the Cuban leader, Fidel Castro, into perspective by allowing me understand how certain events that happened around the world. They help me see the impacted that Castro had on the life of Cubans. I had been exposed to The Cold War and some of the events related to Cuba like the Bay of Pigs and the Cuban Missile Crisis but, that was a while back. So, if I tried to put these two assessments into perspective before…

After the failed attempt to overthrow the Castro regime by the US, the Cubans became wary of the Americans and the Soviet Union decided to use this wariness to their advantage. This led to the Khrushchev installing nuclear missiles in Cuba, his reason being “to balance the missile gap between the USA and the USSR, and to prevent any further America invasion on Cuba.” He believed that the only way to prevent Cuba from further USA invasion was to install missiles in Cuba claiming it would protect…

for the United States, but the whole world. If the Cuban Missile Crisis hadn't been handled by John F. Kennedy, the consequences could have been detrimental. JFK thought through the situation thoroughly and came up with a plan. He cooperated with Nikita Kruschev, and together, they agreed on an outcome that made it so that no missiles were fired. Also, JFK showed his true leadership skills by creating the Peace Corps. The Peace Corps have helped countless people all around the world for many…

The Strategic Arms Limitation Talks, which are more well known under common parlance as the S.A.L.T, were conferences between the U.S.A and the former Soviet Union that were used to create a detente between nations and a decrease of nuclear missile counts and a halt to nuclear weapons production. This essay will show the people and places that took part in the conferences, how the conferences were caused by multiple problems and created multiple solutions, and answer the question of what…

In October of 1962 the Cuban Missile Crisis took place. After the US recovered from the Bay of pigs invasion, and started work on a new operation the Soviet Union met with Fidel Castro and came to a secret agreement. An agreement that placed Soviet nuclear missiles inside of Cuba. Eventually the US started to notice the arms buildup in Cuba and gave Cuba a warning to stop the missile site construction. However the warning was disregarded and construction continued. President Kennedy them…

Sometimes, people attribute the collapse of the Soviet Union to Khrushchev’s destalinization after Stalin’s death in 1953. Many also regard the USSR victory in the Great Patriotic War as the most brilliant success of the Soviet system. However, Juliane Furst demonstrates that the Soviet actually achieved a Pyrrhic victory, and the turning point of the history of the Soviet Union is years earlier than Khrushchev’s rise to power. She finds that the youths in the late Stalin era are the main force…

text. How does the verbal exchange between Nixon and Khrushchev reflect the dynamic and ideological differences of the Cold War? Give specific examples. There were many differences between the United States and the Soviet Union over ideologies. For instance, communism was the ideology followed by the Soviet Union. This meant that everything should be owned by the government and then divided up equally among the people…

compared to Khrushchev. Khrushchev was born deep or son of a coal miner. He had to work his way up through the Soviet hierarchy. He had survived the purges of the paranoid Stalin and even helped stall and carry out the purges in Ukraine. After Stalin 's death, he made it to the top of the cutthroat Soviet political machine by having the head of the Secret Police, Laventria Beria assassinated. In physical appearance, Khrushchev could also not have been further from Kennedy. Khrushchev was…

alludes to achieving foreign policy goals, and although both succeeded in the short term, Khrushchev was the ultimate victor in the long run. While Khrushchev may have exaggerated his statement in calling the Cuban Missile Crisis a ‘victory’ as he had backed down and removed…