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    Soviet Union during the Cold War. U.S discovered missile plants when a spy plane spotted the site. This caused a for an intense 13 day feud, the Soviet Union and the United States were both anxiously waiting to see which of the two would make the first move. The cold war was the closet we ever came to another World War, a nuclear world war at that. The dispute between the two all started when a U.S spy plane capture a photo that cause outbreak in both the United States and the Soviet Union.…

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    Berlin Wall. Over the course of two years, countries were declaring independence and by December 1991, Ukraine Byelorussia, and Russia itself, declared independence and the Soviet Union was disbanded. In the end, the United States spent trillions of dollars aiming themselves for a direct confrontation with the Soviet Union that fortunately never happened. ("The End of the Cold…

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    examination of the application of the Yalta declaration on liberated Europe” (Moradiellos 81). The problem with this list was that the agenda and the proposals were based on the problems that were created by the political and military hegemony of the Soviet Union in Eastern Europe. The Soviets proposed the following issues: “the discussion on Germany but specified as vital questions the issues of war reparations and the division of the German navy […] the future of the Italian colonies in Africa…

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    At school the children were only taught about what the government wanted them to learn. Stalin had the kids tell the ss if there mom and and of even teacher were not following his rules.Outside of school, children were expected to join youth organisations.Women had less freedom with Stalin then with Lenin. Stalin put emphasis on family make any child born out of marriage homeless.The state paid families a child allowance if their were a married couple. It became a lot harder to get a divorce and…

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    assassinated on November 22, 1963. The first impact that John F kennedy made was leading the United States Of America through the cuban missile crisis. The first thing he did was warn the people of the United States. He told the military to put a naval blockade around Cuba. He also made it clear to put U.S. military forces if necessary. He successfully led the United States out of the Cuban missile Crisis. The next impact John F Kennedy made was the bay of pigs invasion. He made Fidel Castro…

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    Fidel Castro Cuban Revolution Embargo Soviet Union Eisenhower Cuban Exiles JFK Bay of Pigs Air support Khrushchev Blockade Turkey Cuban Missile Crisis Agreements In 1959, Fidel Castro led a revolution in Cuba, Cuban Revolution. As a result of Castro taking over many of the American companies, America instituted an embargo against Cuba. However, Fidel castro began to accept help from the Soviet Union, both economic and military aid. Later on, in 1960, President Eisenhower agreed to let the CIA…

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    The blame for the development of the Cold War rests most heavily on the United States’ shoulders; however, the origins of the war overall stemmed from a back and forth struggle between the United States and the Soviet Union for spheres of influence. The United States was overly aggressive and preemptive in its policy to expand it’s sphere of influence and contain the Soviets’. In all fairness, these preemptive actions were not without justification; however, these justifications lay less…

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    Soviet Union. The war was mostly about political conflicts that lead to the Containment policy, The Truman Doctrine and Eisenhower’s policies. Those three policies lead to bigger events such as the Korean War and the Cold War at home. The Cold War Origins began in 1947 and ending in 1991. It all started 2 years after WWII when the U.S used the containment policy against the soviets. The containment policy was issued to prevent the spread of communism, which was mostly for the Soviet Union in…

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    The Cold War, a war between the Soviet Union and the United States, was aimed towards preventing the others influence towards mankind. To begin with, the relationship with the Soviet Union and the United States didn’t go so well. They both were super powers of the world and aimed to increase its worldwide influences. Between the years 1945 and 1950, the two competitors broke out into war. Both sides were fighting for what they believed in thus resulting into this major conflict. Not only were…

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    After World War Two, the United States and Soviet Union emerged as the two Superpowers because they were the most powerful countries in the world at that time. The Cold War was a conflict between these Superpowers in political, conceptual, and economic values. Competition between the two Superpowers had a large impact on many European countries. The Superpowers greatly affected many European countries including Germany, Czechoslovakia, and France through their conflict with one another.…

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