To prove the accuracy of this definition this paper will define power, examine the natural state of man, and draw on the cold war to further demonstrate the validity of this theory. ... While the preceding paragraphs outline the definition of power and examine the nature of man, further confirmation may be established by looking at the Cold War, explicitly the Cuban Missile Crisis of 1962. The events leading up to the cold war were several shifts in power resulting from WWI and WWII. ... The 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis was the most dangerous passage of the Cold War it was problematic not only be...

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To support my claim, lets take a look at the general history of the US and how it became the hegemony it is today, beginning with the inception of the US and the revolutionary war. ... Other examples include: carrying out the manifest destiny, admitting Texas into the union in 1845, the war of 1812, and the US-Mexican war; all for the aim of continental expansion and a rapid expansion of industrial and regional power. ... Using WWI as an example of when the US tried to implement strictly liberalist tendencies and how it failed: when idealist, Woodrow Wilson claimed that the war was good for de...

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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...

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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...

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