Thirteen Days I watched the movie Thirteen Days, for the first time, in class almost two weeks ago. It takes place in the 60's, mostly in Washington D.C. and is all about the Cuban Missile Crisis. The Cuban Missile crisis was the probably the most intense thirteen days in an October in 1962 th...
The world held its breath as these events unfolded before their eyes; If any decision had have been different, it might have led to WW III. ... In Smoke's opinion, they were willing to risk WW III in order to obtain first strike capability. ...
Question To what extent was the late nineteenth-century and early twentieth-century United States expansionism a continuation of past United States expansionism and to what extent was it a departure? Response The period from the late nineteenth-century to the early twentieth-century was a period of...
Defense Commands of NATO: The NATO comprises of the following three defense commands which are entrusted with the tasks of defending their particular zones: (i) The European Command (ii) The Atlantic Command (iii) The Regional Command (i) The European Command: The European Command is responsible for the defense of Britain France, Belgium and the Netherlands. ... (iii) The Regional Command: The Regional Command is entrusted with the task of defending Canada and US NATO after the disintegration of USSR: The collapse of socialism in the late eighties and the disintegration of USSR in Decemb...
When we look at music that was written before the height of Vietnam War we can see that some people are already opposed to war. The best example of this anti-war anti-government music is that of Bob Dylan. Bob Dylan's blues/folk music was far from the main stream, but people slowly came to realize t...
Topic: Overpopulation II. History With over 6 billion people on earth, we must acknowledge and respect the problem of overpopulation. Moreover, we must recognize the consequences both from an environmental standpoint and through the loss of human life. It is a problem that is not as clear as w...
President John F. Kennedy and his advisors, who had the responsibility to formulate a policy, implement that policy & bring the crisis to a favorable conclusion, made the best possible choices by using diplomacy & naval action. The choices that he, his cabinet, and his advisors made during that ti...
THE KOREAN WAR" WHY DID WE FIGHT IN KOREA? "WHY DID WE FIGHT IN KOREA?" The Korean War took place between the years of 1950 and 1953. The cause of the war was that Korea was under Japanese rule ever since the end of the Chinese-Japanese war in 1895. After World War II, in 1945, Korea was freed from ...
The Korean War A cry rang out, June 24, 1950, from a small country half way around the world and America listened. Korea was engaged in a civil war as an attempt to keep North Korea from thrusting its influence on South Korea. Communist Russia and China were strong supporters of the North, an...
Stalin and Stalinism Stalinism is an everyday term for the political and economic system implemented by Joseph Stalin in the Soviet Union. This system is an extreme case of totalitarianism. The foundations of Stalin's theory were: socialism in one country, and aggravation of the class struggle al...
YAF as a Reflection of Protest Culture Young Americans for Freedom (YAF) is an organization of college students who are on the conservative Right of the Republican party. Their organization was created in the early 1960's, and continues to be active on many college campuses today. When most pe...
I. Background The year is 1962. The US and Soviets are in middle of a heated cold war that will decide whether communism and the USSR will become the lead power in the international community, or whether US hegemony will remain. President John F. Kennedy is the current president. Cuba, new...
A. Nuclear Weapons History. In 1914 H.G. Wells wrote in his book, The World Set Free, that atomic bombs were used in a war between the alliance of England, France and the U.S. against an alliance of Germany and Austria. All of the major cities of the world were destroyed by atomic bombs in this ch...
If one were to discuss life after the Second World War, if they were not a historian would perhaps not talk much about Harry S. Truman as a major factor. Truman is ranked seventh among forty one presidents ranging from Washington to Clinton . Truman succeeded Roosevelt, after his death, and the da...
In today's modern society we have very many things to fear from, like getting hit by a car, or just getting up out of bed in the morning is sometimes scary enough, because you just never quite know what is going to happen. So we have all these little annoying things to worry about, and now we have ...
Background and During the Cooling of Relations The Second World War drastically changed the political map of the world, and especially the European continent. The basic premises of the new alignment of the world developed in the final stages of the war. The anti-Hitler coalition, the main role which played the great powers - the US, the USSR, England, and at the last stage of the war France - increasingly reflect the new balance of power in the world. Neither Britain nor France, nor even, defeated Germany could not play in the post-war period of the previous role of the guarantor of balance a...
