Since Russia did not own any land or power in the US/Cuban region, Castro offered the Russians a chance to extend their sphere of influence. ... Of course, the American government did not accept this situation readily. ... Once again, he turned to Russia for aid. ... For years now, the US was sending nuclear missiles to friendly countries around Russia in order to halt any Russian expansionism, and the Russians were more than eager to return the favor. ... Just about every organization that supplies or is hired by the government to build weapons. ...

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Within hours the government had arrested their man, Lee Harvey Oswald, and there was no doubt he was guilty; he was convicted immediately in the court of public opinion. ... It has now become clear through further investigation that the FBI, CIA and secret service and other government agencies did not actually kill their president, but were involved in the plot, protected the real assassins and hid their knowledge of the event. ... Nearly the entire staff of the Warren Commission, authors of an official report done by the government displaying the conclusions of the Kennedy Assassination, wa...

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This plan, supported by the US government got a lot of critisism from the russian states and even from western states. The russian prime minister Nikita Chruschtschow now could call JFK and the USA as aggressors and threaten with an intervention on Cuba. ... The U2 discovers russian nuclear missiles. 20.10. ... The russian prime minister did not get an answer of the USA - they ignored this deal. 28.10. ... -In the years 1963 - 1967 the USA first, then the SU, followed later on by France and Great Britain introduced a direct contact between the different governmental au...

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The government's theory is that Lee Harvey Oswald, acting alone, assassinated President John F. ... Oswald was later revived at a Russian hospital. ... Oswald received an apartment in Minsk, which was paid for by the Russian Government. ... While in Russia, Oswald met his first love, Ella Germann. ... When Oswald grew tired of life in Russia, he asked the US embassy for help in allowing him to leave Russia. ...

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Following almost a century of alliance, Americans and Russians disagreement came to the front line when in 1917 the Communists seized power, and established the Soviet Union. ... Relations between the Castro government and the United States began to decline. ... The U.S. backed rebels fighting to overthrow the Marxist Sandinista government of Nicaragua. ... Throughout the Cold War era, many Latin American countries were forced to pursue alternative forms of government to deal with the economic, social, and political problems in their countries. ... When it came to Communism the U.S. has almost...

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Nikita Khrushchev, the leader of Russia who was humiliated by the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis, instigated the assassination. According to the two theories related to Soviet, one proposes that Oswald was directed to kill JFK by Valery Kostikov, a Mexico City Soviet embassy official, and second one proposes that KGB captured Oswald during his stay in Russia and sent him back to USA to kill the president. ... However, Mafia would not have used inexperienced Oswald as an assassin and would not have done the job all by itself; one possibility is that it blackmailed the government, demanding a cover-...

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The Rosenberg's received the death penalty because of the accusation of being spies for Russia. ... The government's paranoia of the Communist party escalated once again during the war of Vietnam. ...

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To help at Scots Run ER would make personal and financial contributions however she quickly realized those individual acts alone could not cure the sickness of poverty, the government must take some responsibility for the needy. ... This characteristic of ER redefined the role of First Lady as well as the role of the American government in general. ... Previous first ladies had been seen, not heard and acted officially only as hostesses, never involving themselves politically in the affairs of the government. ... (Macleish, 1965) When FDR was paralyzed by Polio in 1921, he counted on ER ...

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The government hired 5 first class riflemen to attempt to make the shots that Oswald made, and not one of them could do it... - In 1961, while lee Harvey Oswald was in Russia, a man was using Oswald's name to buy cars in the USA for Democratic Cuba. ... The government would have had their own snipers covering Dealey Plaza, and the minute a window went down, the snipers would have been on it. ... Can somebody tell me why the U.S. government would lock away this information? ... In my opinion this was not the work of a lone shooter, the government, mafia, anti castro cubans, etc. wer...

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He took these actions because when the North Vietnamese offensive threatened the Saigon government, it endangered the results of Nixon's trip to China and his trip to the Soviet Union. ... He addressed the Russian people by television. ...

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