Official documents of the United States

To better understand the significance of intelligence provided by Oleg Penkovsky during the Cuban missile crisis, it is of utmost important to examine the climate of the intelligence community in the United States leading up to the crisis. On September 19th, 1962, about a month before the start of the Cuban Missile Crisis, a Special National Intelligence Estimate (SNIE) on “The military Buildup in Cuba” considered the possibility of the Soviet’s deployment of medium and intermediate-range…

Throughout all of American history, no other document has maintained an equally important and ever changing role in our government than the United States Constitution. The Constitution drew the plans for the creation the three branches of government and provided the structure on which the national government would grow. The most famous aspect of the Constitution is the Bill of Rights. Written by James Madison as a response to the States’ demands that individual liberties be provided and…

to tax the american colonists. They passed the acts that taxed the colonists which were the molasses act, which is also known as the sugar act, the revenue act, stamp act among others. For example, the Stamp Act taxed the colonists for any paper documents which varied from newspapers to marriage licenses, to anything that was printed, or publicated which strongly angered the colonists. Without the stamp the colonists papers weren’t verified and they could be fined or often put in jail. For the…

President of the United States (POTUS), George W. Bush, was elected into office. The country was still recovering from the trauma of the dreadful attacks on the World Trade Center and Operation Iraqi Freedom was just beginning. While everyone was focused on National Security and fighting Al Qaida, Tropical Depression Ten was moving over the Bahamas and moving towards a tropical wave resting in the Gulf of Mexico. Catching everyone off guard, these two collided and began to move towards the…

appreciate the limited opportunities for settlement. The Quartering Acts were also enacted at this time, which “required colonial assemblies to provide barracks and supplies for the soldiers” (Goldfield, ed., The American Journey: A History of the United States, 122). The Quartering Acts put colonists in a position of inferiority with regards to Britain and British troops, and this position was…

Philby was successful, and on June 27, 1951, J. Edgar Hoover, former director of the FBI, received a memorandum that read, “Wire dispatches on June 7 1951, state Maclean and Burgess have defected behind the Iron Curtain… Our files reflect a contact between M[a]clean and Alger Hiss on October 19, 1946… Both contacts have related solely to official business.” Burgess and Maclean fled at the seemingly perfect time, leaving their allies and foes to deal with the repercussions of their actions.…

The other more interested and more valuable episode in that film is the today’s Turkish officials, scholars and simply citizens of Turkey denial of that 1915 Armenian genocide. As one of the professor from Turkey denies that genocide and his point was that not only Armenians was killed but also Turks where both sides were involved in civil war…

Communism was created with the intent to eliminate private power. The definition of Communism states, “A system in which goods are owned in common and are available to all as needed” (2017) Retrieved from https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/communism. Some of the countries that still current use Communism include Russia, China, Cuba, and Korea. There are many others, but these are some of the most popular and most discussed today. Though at the time it was created Communism seemed like a…

dictatorship of Saddam Hussein, was in complete chaos; however, with the support of the United States, this middle eastern country was soon able to regain its former glory and establish a thriving democracy.…

Bacteriological Methods of Warfare, otherwise known as the Geneva Protocol. However, the Geneva Protocol is one of the most comprehensive and arguably successful agreements to come from the time period despite being short in comparison to similar documents. The Geneva Protocol aimed to prohibit the use of “of asphyxiating, poisonous or other gases, and of all analogous liquids, materials or devices [in warfare ... as well as] bacteriological…