Union blockade

The Korean War was an armed conflict spanning from June 1950 – July 1953 and involved two opposing sides, North Korea and South Korea. Each side was backed up by the Soviet Union and United States, respectively, and was part of the larger, long-term Cold War. The stage was set for a South Korean-U.S. victory with the allied forces pushing back the communists north of the 38th parallel and to the Yalu River in North Korea. However, victory could not be seized as the South Korean troops were met…

On this essay, I will be responding my thesis about the Cuban Missile Crisis. Since the Cuban revolution happened in 1959, problematic situations and tensions increased mainly between the United States, Cuba and the USSR. Before Castro’s revolution, the United States had heavy political and economical influence on the Cuban island, due to 1895, where the Americans helped the Cubans fight against the Spanish. Fidel Castro, belonged to the Communist party. When he got to power in 1959, he…

between the United States and the Soviet Union. The Two Super Powers continually antagonized each other with political actions involving espionage, arms build up, and economic aid. This war began soon after World War 2 and lasted almost a decade. "The Cold War." - John F. Kennedy Presidential Library & Museum. N.p., n.d. Web. 21 Nov. 2015. Summary: Through espionage, propaganda, arms build up, political movements, and economic aid to those effected the Soviet Union and The United States…

most critical event in history. The stakes were nuclear war, which could have obliterated much of the life on earth from nuclear fallout. In a nutshell, after World War II, the two superpowers in the world were, the United States of America and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republic. Without telling the US, the USSR moved weapons of mass destruction to Cuba and to the US coast. After the US found out what the USSR was up to, the US recognizes the act as a intent of war. As the missiles had the…

1941 was fought on geopolitical tension after world war 2. There was two powers the Eastern Bloc which was the Soviet Union and its satellite states and the Western Bloc which was the United States and its NATO allies. The Eastern Bloc was supporting communism. The western bloc would be supporting capitalism. The Eastern Bloc would contain the countries such as Vietnam, Soviet Union, Korea, Cuba, Hungary, Bulgaria, Lao, and China. The Eastern Bloc was more communism this was advocating class war…

the United States who saved the entire world from destruction, while thermonuclear war was imminent during the Cuban Missile Crisis. This anti-communist, anti-Soviet president led the United States through a period of superiority against the Soviet Union after the president influenced Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev to remove Soviet nuclear missiles situated on the island of Cuba located merely 90 miles off the coast of Florida. For generations, President Kennedy was hailed as a hero. However,…

Adolf Hitler of Germany and Joseph Stalin of the Soviet Union were authoritarian leaders who had a major impact on the economic state of their respective countries in the early to mid 20th century. Their respective economic policies mainly focused on the industrialisation and modernisation of their countries as both countries had a relatively weak economy in comparison to the rest of the Western world at the time. Furthermore, both countries practiced autarky and rearmament as a means of…

Cuba. Noticing that they both shared a common enemy, a relationship was sparked between the two. Castro felt threatened that the United States would make another, more forceful attempt to attack Cuba and sought help from the major power, the Soviet Union. The Soviet Premier took initiatives to help protect Cuba which were offering Cuba sophisticated weapons and sending Soviet officers and technicians to teach the Cuban soldiers the tactics of modern warfare. Reasons for why the U.S.S.R. helped…

Rights Movement, and winning the Space Race. During Kennedy’s Presidency, the Cold War between Russia and the United States was at it’s peak. The first dilemma occurred when Fidel Castro overthrew the Cuban Empire and established ties with the Soviet Union. At the time, President Eisenhower was in office and he authorized the…

Kennedy was a man who strongly believed in peace, and living in a peaceful world. In Kennedy’s third State of the Union address he briefly speaks about Cuba and the fact that although a war had been completed and that at the moment there was no imminent danger, peace was not yet fully achieved. In an address to the nation on nuclear testing and disbarment President…