(Perez, 15), a small island like Cuba had one revolution and effectively terrified and traumatized the US government and American people, especially since this all occurred during the Cold War era where a nuclear war with USSR was very real. ... The aftershocks of the revolution are still being felt today (mostly), as the revolution and Cold War era hysteria dictated the US's foreign policy with Cuba and the embargo is still in effect today. ...

• Word Count: 950
• Approx Pages: 4
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

As the most treacherous incident in the history of the Cold War, the Cuban missile crisis has inescapably enticed the observation of numerous diplomatic historians. With the dual superpowers wavering on the edge of nuclear war, the dispute of how to eliminate Russian arsenals from Cuba in October 1962, while conserving the harmony, epitomized the utmost trial of John F. ... The Cuban Missile Crisis was an undeviating and treacherous opposition amongst the United States and the Soviet Union in the course of the Cold War. It was the period of time when the two superpowers of the whole world were...

• Word Count: 2157
• Approx Pages: 9
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

America and the Soviet Union have always been at particular rivalry, but have been directly at war with one another. They faced a different type of war; the Cold War, which was a battle between nuclear arms and lasted until the fall of the Soviet Union in 1990. ... After World War II, America was with out a doubt the leading super power. ... Khrushchev declined the offer, but did firmly agree that in any case a nuclear war would be a disaster for both parties and that the reward would be unprofitable. ... The missiles placed on Cuban territory were what Khrushchev claimed "not to start a wa...

• Word Count: 1988
• Approx Pages: 8
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

At home he was impressed by the Spanish Civil War refugees and by the long series of squalid political crises in Argentina which culminated in the 'Left Fascist' dictatorship of Juan Peron, to whom the Guevara de la Sernas were opposed. ... The war games at the farm attracted police attention, all the Cubans and Che were arrested, but released a month later (June 1956). ... He was the most aggressive, clever and successful of the guerrilla officers, and the most earnest in giving his men a Lenist education: he was also a ruthless disciplinarian who unhesitatingly shot defectors, as l...

• Word Count: 3519
• Approx Pages: 14
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate