Premier of the Soviet Union

One significant Cold War event of the 1960s included the Cuban Missile Crisis. Broadly, this crisis was a thirteen day conflict in 1962 involving the United States and the Soviet Union regarding the installment of Soviet airstrike missiles in Cuba. This situation was globally televised and was the nearest the Cold War had ever come to a nuclear war. Tension between superpowers, Fidel Castro, and the Bay of Pigs Invasion led this event to unfold as it did and the event took the Western bloc in an…

In Armando Iannucci's The Death of Stalin, Russian dignitaries attempt to come together to determine the direction of the Soviet Union following the death of Soviet Premier Joseph Stalin in 1953. Under dictatorial rule for more than three decades, a power pull breaks out among Nikita Khrushchev of Moscow, Lavrentiy Baria, the head of NKVD - Russian Internal Affairs, and Stalin's General Secretary, Georgy Malenkov, as well as with other members of a hastily assembled Central Committee. That may…

former allied countries, the United States and the Soviet Union, over territory. After World War II, Germany split into two separate divisions; East Germany which fell under the authority of the Soviet Union and West Germany which was ruled predominantly by the United States. Many forms of conflicts aroused from this division between the two very diverse administrating countries. One well known effect sprouting from the war between the Soviet Union and the United States was the production of the…

Russian Secret Police From 1954 to its downfall in 1991, the Russian Police, or KGB was both an intelligence agency and a primary source security agency. Working for the Soviet Union it was later named the "secret police." George Orwell used the facts and force of this agency to tie it into a book he wrote known as ,Animal Farm, In this book Orwell portrays many people and events that happened in history around this time and put it into the perspective of animals. Using the KGB as a force of…

One of the most defining moments in the relations between the United States and the Soviets in the course of the Cold War was the Cuban Missile Crisis that took place in 1962. It marked a time when the two nations were nearly involved in a war with the possibility of using nuclear weapons, and after it had passed, the two superpowers started pursuing ways of adjusting to one another, especially, aiming at preventing the use of nuclear weapons. The United States intelligence community (IC)…

necessary to stop Soviet advance. With both nations making grounds in nuclear technology, the threat of a nuclear holocaust was ever looming. Neither nation felt secure enough to stand down, out of fear of Nuclear attack. The policy of brinkmanship left the world in a constant state of fear, waiting for moment when the cold war would turn hot. The idea of brinksmanship was followed with MAD (mutual insured destruction), which lead both the Untied States and the Soviet Union to take risk that…

sign of life ever existing again, dead trees, burnt grass, the extinction of all humans, and wildlife ceasing to exit. Every edible crop, or source of drinking water would be completely contaminated. This would have been the results of our Earth if Premier Kruschchev, and President Kennedy did not come into an agreement. The Cuban missile crisis is an event that would have led to possible human extinction, due to high tension between the U.S., and Russia and is important to us today because it …

On October 4, 1957, the Soviet Union launched the first satellite, Sputnik into orbit. From that point on, the United States and the USSR were thrown into a race to see who could get further into space and develop the technology to do so. This became known as the Space Race. In response, to the Sputnik satellite the United States launched Explorer 1 on January 31, 1958 just four months after the Soviets. Soon, both the Soviets and the Americans were launching larger spacecrafts, with animals and…

The most influential person in European history was a man who only ruled his country for eleven years. Nikita Khrushchev, the leader of the Soviet Union from 1953 to 1964, accomplished more in these eleven years than many men had in their entire lives. Khrushchev had a huge impact on history during the Cold War era, and many things might be different today if he had never been in a leadership role. The innovations that were made in the USSR under his command, were innovations that would send the…

because the country participated in WWII, but because of all the changes that came around because of the war. New organizations were formed, laws were passed, the country got a new president, and the United States almost engaged in war with the Soviet Union. The changes that occurred in this decade were the start of a new era. The domestic and foreign policies of the United States in the 1940’s helped to shape the world into what it is today, by forming organizations like the United Nations,…