Soviet Union

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)…

the Soviets wanted to be more powerful, and both counties did not agree how to help other counties. This war went on for forty years and it cost a lot of problems in the counties. The cold war had a lot of things going on at the time. The Soviets wanted to share things and the united states did not want to share anything. Comunism was a big deal because most of the counties did not want to do it. Immediately after world war two they wanted to stop communism. Russia became known as the Soviet…

The light rain that fell early in the morning of November 22, 1963 in Dallas, Texas had stopped, and thousands of people lined a ten mile route that would take President John F. Kennedy from the Dallas airport to the Trade Mart where he was scheduled to speak. At approximately 12:30 pm, the Presidential motorcade turned off Main Street and entered Dealey Plaza. As the limousine passed the Texas School Book Depository, shots rang out in the plaza. President Kennedy was hit in the head and neck…

States and the Soviet Union had apparent differences that led to competition and conflict. But this particular battle wasn’t fought with giant missiles or enclosed deals to overcome and win against the other side. But whomever was responsible to spark the match and light the flame of the candle? The Soviets or Team USA? The Soviet Union should be blamed for the cause of The Cold War because due to their communist power they gained…

place between the Soviet Union, the United States, and the majority of the European countries to the west of Russia, primarily Britain and France. The United States, a nation striving to grow in trade and capitalism, was not inclined to allow the Soviet Union to bring their communism and suppressive ideals…

The containment policy was a United States foreign policy or doctrine aimed at bringing communism to a stop and preventing the expansion of the Soviet Union through various strategies as military, economic and diplomatic. It was enacted in the year 1946 and conceived by a diplomat George Kennan immediately after the World War II. The World war resulted in critical changes to the government policies abroad. This was under the influence of three assertive diplomats George Marshall, Dean Acheson,…

as the “Resistance War against America”, motivated by the United States’ doctrine of containment of communism, represents a remarkable turning point in this doctrine’s implementation. The doctrine of containment had the goal of “[preventing] the Soviet Union from […] reshaping the postwar international order”, a prospect as dangerous to the West as Germany’s or Japan’s attempt (Gaddis 4). World War II, and more precisely Pearl Harbour, had also “ended [the United States’] isolationism for any…

military power, and that Germany didn’t need to view the Soviet Union as a serious military or economic threat. Between 1937 and 1938 around seven million Soviet citizens were arrested, one million were executed, two million died in camps, and another one million were imprisoned. Taking the Purge and the Great Terror as a whole, roughly eight million people were in camps by the end of 1938. Stalin’s paranoia led him to set the Soviet Union on fire and as a result the Red Army fared poorly in…

“Let us not be deceived we are today in the midst of a cold war,” said Bernard Baruch on April 16th, 1947. Baruch coined the term “cold war” which would be used to describe the rest of the ongoing conflict between the United States and the Soviet Union. These competing power never had direct military campaigns but for around 45 years were competing for influence throughout the world. The ideological differences between the two states lead to increased tension that still continues today. However…

the Soviet Union to end the feud. His words were bold and unexpected. It brought harmony between East and West Germany. The wall separated the Soviets and the Western Alliance from the control of Germany. The Berlin Wall separated all of Europe from West Germany. Regan took a brave stance to fight for freedom in Germany. Freedom without the separation of the country. Regan says in the speech “Es gibt nur ein Berlin.”, Eastern Europe could not become free as long as they were under the Soviet…