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    Journey To The Cold War

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    On the contrary, East Berlin was still struggling due to the Soviet Union taking their resources. Joseph Stalin went into action when he realized the huge contrast between West Berlin and East Berlin. Stalin wanted the western allies to leave West Berlin. On April 1,1948, the Soviet military government in Berlin landed a blockade of the allied areas of the city. For ten months over two million tons of supplies were airlifted to the blockaded city…

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    world superpowers, the Soviet Union and the United States of America, who had allied with each other to fight this tough battle. Unfortunately, this ecstasy and harmony between the two countries was ephemeral. The many differences between the two countries were the roots of the Cold War, and the dissimilarities created hostility and aversion between each other. The greatest contrast between the two was the arrangement of their societies (Background Essay). The Soviet Union was governed by a…

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    up with a foreign policy to prevent and stop the spread of communism throughout the other nations, by the use of diplomacy and foreign aid. The U.S would do anything necessary to stop communism from spreading by the Soviet Union. The two allied nations after WWII, Soviet Union and the U.S, quickly had different ideas on how to run their nations. The Soviets wanted to spread communism and the U.S wanted to spread democracy. So to prevent it the U.S took action such as; the Marshall Plan, the…

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    Essay On The Cuban Crisis

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    In October 1962, the United States and the Soviet Union came to the brink of nuclear war over the placement of Soviet missiles in Cuba. It was a direct and dangerous confrontation that placed the two superpowers closest to a nuclear conflict. During the crisis, a fragile peace hung by only a thread for 13 days as the United States instituted a naval blockade of Cuba to turn back Soviet ships, and work to turn back the armament of Cuba with offensive nuclear, and tactical weapons within the…

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    Third, Kennedy stated if any missiles were launched against the United States or any other country, the Soviet Union would be held responsible and America would be forced to retaliate. Fourth, Kennedy set out a message to the UN about the Soviet missiles in Cuba and that an emergency meeting should be held to force the Soviets to immediately remove the missiles.…

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    The Cuban missile occurrence has to do with it relationship btw the parties, the United States and it neighbouring state Cuban and its link with Soviet Union in 15th to 28th October 1962 which lasted for 13 days. Diplomacy is the management of relationship of state through the process of negotiation to resolve any situation at a given time. This essay will discuss how diplomacy was related to the issue that led to the crisis and how it was used to figure out the solution. On the second section…

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    The Soviet Union agreed to Cuba’s request to ship nuclear missiles to them when the US started placing missiles in Turkey and Italy. Cuba requested the missiles because the Bay of Pigs incident, which was an American invasion in Cuba. Cuba was worried that there would be another attack. By May 1962, Cuba and the Soviet Union had agreed to secretly build missile installations and transport missiles to Cuba. The Americans…

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    at the time: the U.S. and the Soviet Union. The U.S. wanted to contain communism while the Soviet Union wanted to spread it, causing conflict. The cold war lasted from “Roughly from the end of World War II in 1945 to 1991” (Cubanmisslecrisis.org). The Cuban missile crisis began when Fidel Castro began a revolution to overthrow the Cuban government. Eventually he was successful and now he had a choice; he could side with America or the Soviet Union. Castro began nationalizing U.S.…

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    in the world. The Soviet Union however wanted communism to spread throughout the world and they wanted to be the ones to spread it. Stalin and The Soviets believed that communism is better than capitalism and that they would win this war. America had a strategy to stop it. In order to stop the spread of communism America had to, keep West Berlin, South Korea and Cuba from becoming communist. In 1948, West Berlin was surrounded by communist territory. Stalin made a blockade to stop any shipments…

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    plane secretly flew over Cuba and took photos of nuclear missile sites being built by the Soviet Union in Cuba. President Kennedy did not want the Soviet Union and Cuba to know that he had discovered the missiles so he kept the knowledge of this intelligence between very few people. After a lot of meetings, Kennedy decided to place a naval blockade, which is a ring of ships, around Cuba. The blockade was to prevent the Soviets from bringing in more military supplies. He then set up a way to…

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