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played by John Kennedy and Nikita Khrushchev in October 1962”. The Cuban Missile Crisis was a 13 day tense standoff between the United States and the Soviet Union. It was the closest that either of the two countries came to using nuclear weapons against each other. The problem began when United States intelligence learned that the Soviet Union had missiles in Cuba. Many accuse President Kennedy of handling the conflict badly and accuse him of putting the country in serious danger, but Frankel…

nuclear war, but thanks to one man the horror never happened. The crisis was known as the Cuban Missile Crisis, when the Soviet Union sent four nuclear submarines armed with torpedoes into the seas around Cuba. The future of the world was in doubt. Naturally, the US did not like the dangerous Soviets so close to the US, so President Kennedy decided to set up a blockade around Cuba. He did this by deploying the US Navy, the world’s largest navy. He sent out destroyers and aircraft carriers, and…

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put a naval blockade in Cuba and they wanted to remove all of the nuclear warfare from the area and prevent further creation of these missiles. But a secret meeting between Fidel Castro and Nikita Khrushchev led to an idea of placing multiple missile launch bases along the coast of Cuba, just 90 miles from U.S controlled Florida. When U.S air force planes had spotted these missile bases. While President Kennedy was working on negotiations with Khrushchev, the U.S set up a naval blockade around…

Berlin Wall. This blockade was built by the Soviet Union and East Berlin soldiers in order to cease the flow of emigrants into the West. The formulation of the Berlin Wall led to a separation of the people, a fight for freedom in government, a struggle for survival, and a political battle between World War II allies. After World War II, the victors agreed to separate Germany into 4 zones. These zones would be occupied by the United States, Britain, France, and the Soviet Union. Germany’s…

of America and the Soviet Union have been direct competition and rival for longer than 15 years. The Cold War period reflects the intense military and political tension between the two world superpowers, significant conflicts such as the Berlin Blockade in 1948, the “fall” of China to communism due to the Chinese Civil War, the Korean War in the 1950s, and also Berlin Crisis in 1961, increased the tension between the anti-communist America and the communist Soviet Union. Unlike some other…

Containment Policy (1945)- Containment was part of the US policy to stop Communism from spreading. During this time, the Soviet Union had gained control over multiple Eastern European countries. The Soviet Union was also planning to take over Greece and Turkey; however, President Truman supplied military and economic help until this threat went away. George Kennan, from the State Department, then called for the Containment Policy to prevent the spread of Communism. In order to also prevent the…

the United States. It is important that we define, rather explain, what the Cuban Missile Crisis was. The Cuban missile crisis was a so called “pivotal” moment in the cold war. The two great superpowers at the time (The United States and the Soviet Union) were at the brink of war. The cold war seemed to be tilting toward a nuclear war. The crisis was nothing more than a direct and dangerous confrontation. The entire world ran danger. Two great superpowers racing for superiority in every sense of…

being built so close to the shores of the United States, war was on the border of nuclear war. According to Smith (2003), “[on] September 4, President Kennedy revealed the presence of ground-to-air antiaircraft missiles in Cuba and warned the Soviet Union not to install offensive weapons in Cuba,” in which the Soviets did not listen too (266). The Kennedy administration went into a state of crisis management that took them in many different directions. Most of the administration was torn between…

into four administrative sectors, one for each of the three victorious combatants, the United States, the Soviet Union, Britain, and by special dispensation the French. Berlin, as a capital city, was divided similarly into four subdivisions. As a result of being situated entirely within the Soviet Sector, Berlin provided an ongoing inferno in the developing enmity between the Soviet Union and the West. However, by 1948, tensions began to develop as the Western Allies united their occupation…