Union blockade

After World War II (WWII), Germany was split into a Western and Eastern half. The Soviet Union took the Eastern half, and the United States, France, and Great Britain took the Western half; they were considered the victors of World War II. Berlin being in the center of the Soviet Union’s territory was also split. Instead of two sides, it was split in to four sections. One side was for each victor to oversee and rebuild, since it was basically destroyed during the war. Because of this, the four…

sparked a nuclear War. The Cuban missile crisis happened in October of 1962 it played out for 13 days, and was the closest time for a nuclear war to erupt on earth. After the failed invasion of the pigs by the United States(USA) the Soviet Union(USSR) felt uneasy leaving Cuba defenseless, so they started shipping defensive missiles to Cuba. Cuba became vary dependent after this for their military power. United States had already nuclear missiles in Turkey directed right at Moscow. At…

physical and metaphorical form of the word. Officially designated the “Anti-Fascist Protection Rampart” by the government of the German Democratic Republic, the wall split the city of Berlin into two segments. One half was controlled by the Soviet Union and the other half of Berlin was administered by an alliance of the three Western allied powers, comprised of the United Kingdom, the United States and France. Claimed by the German Democratic Republic to be a defense against “fascist elements”…

Batista and had many business interests in Cuba.” The U.S. approved of the previous leader, Fulgencio Batista, but disapproved of Fidel Castro. Castro struck up a friendship with the Soviet Union, that made the U.S. even angrier. In the database article “Cuba Signs a Commercial Agreement with the Soviet Union, February 11, 1966” it says, “On…

the Soviet Union that lasted from 1947 to 1991. The Cold War was more about convincing other countries to turn Capitalist or Communist than fighting each other with weapons and items of mass destruction. However, the combat with weapons never really occurred in the United States of America or the Soviet Union during the Cold War. Most of the battles took place in other countries such as China, Cuba, and Afghanistan. Whichever country, either the United States of America or Soviet Union, got more…

Joseph Stalin was a very powerful and murderous dictator of the Soviet Union. He was a member of the Communist Party and became the leader of the Soviet Union from 1929 until his death in 1953. Joseph Stalin ruled the Soviet Union with an “iron fist” by having complete control over his people and leading his country through World War II and the start of the Cold War. When Joseph Stalin became the leader of the Soviet Union, he also became a dictator. A dictator is a ruler with total power or…

-The Soviet Union saw the Marshall Plan as part of the capitalist agenda of the USA to expand its sphere of influence intro Eastern Europe, “Soviet Territory”. -They accused the US of attempting to impose its ideology and beliefs onto otherwise free and independent states -Following the announcing of the Marshall Plan, Moscow announced the Molotov Plan. This led to the linking of Eastern Europe’s economy to that of the USSR. -This aid would prevent Eastern European countries to rely on American…

each person works and is paid according to their abilities and needs. Soon after World War II ended on April 25, 1945, at the the Elbe River, the U.S. soon found themselves in political tensions with the Soviet Union. The Soviet Union and the United States had major differences. The Soviet Union, under Stalin's regime, advocated communism while the United States favored capitalism. This political difference lead to the Cold War, which was an iron curtain between the Soviet-controlled countries…

The end of World War II ushered in an era of new fears. American officials agreed that the best defense against the Soviet Union was to contain them and not allow for expansion of their physical state or ideology. It was President Truman’s that declared in 1947 that it was the United States responsibility to support a body of people attempting to resist suppression. The strategy would be considered containment. An arms race of nuclear force shortly followed. America developed atomic weapons that…

because of an event known as the Cuban Missile Crisis. This event started on October 14,1962 and ended on October 27, 1962. The Kennedy administration had restless nights trying to plead a deal with the Castro regime. It all started when the Soviet Union, that included a man named Nikita Khrushchev decided to place nuclear warheads in Cuba to try to have a war with the United States of America. The United States was scared out of their minds, especially President Kennedy. He wondered what…