The cold war was a long and tense time in American and European history. ... We were also tested in many ways: the Korean and Vietnam wars, the bloody wars for independence in countries such as Indonesia and Angola, and my current topic, the Cuban missile crisis. Of all the situations during the cold war, none of them ranks as high as the missile crisis, in its intensity and proximity. It's quite honestly the closest we got to an actual war in the cold war, and it tested the lines drawn by the two colliding superpowers of the world at that time, the United States and the Soviet Union. ......

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The fear of Communism crept in continuously throughout the Cold War. ... The fear and paranoia of Communism did not destruct after the Cold War. ... Former Vietnam veterans even supported to end the war. ... This war was not traditional fighting. ... This war was guerrilla war. ...

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Although not technically a declared war, it was the longest conflict in the United States history. ... It was the first war televised, making people more aware of what was happening overseas. ... Never in history has so much power been used so ineffectively as in the war in Vietnam. ... With the Cold War, the United States had promised to keep communism from spreading. ... The bigger issue was the Cold War. ...

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The war traced its origins to before the Cold War and even before World War II. ... Eisenhower's advisors after calculating the forces necessary to win the war were perceptive enough to convince him to keep the U.S. out of the Indochina war. ... A war of guerillas and insurgents, a war fought in ambushes not traditional combat. ... The Vietnam War was not a very popular war with the American people and due to the prolonged United States involvement the number of people against it grew. ... The Vietnam War was the first war in the history of the United States to be fought on foreign and d...

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At the peak of the Cold War, the war in Vietnam was a catalyst to the strong emergence of counterculture. ... Many thought it was a "morally ambiguous conflict from the start, ostensibly a war against communism yet also a war to suppress nationalist self-determination." This war was also the first to be televised. Even though Americans at home could see the war from a new perspective, they were poorly informed due to the biased media that reported not only events, but their opposition towards the war. ... Since the start of the Vietnam War, a new form of counterculture had been bre...

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As the book progresses, so does the war. ... A Rumor of War was written not long after Caputo's experience in this tragic war. ... No one spoke and I felt it come back again, that old, familiar, cold, cramping fear Goddamn this war, he said, Goddamn this war," (248). ... These things all display how war can affect man; war truly is a nightmare. ... A Rumor of War is one ...

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Introduction During the 1960s, the cold war tension was at its zenith. The Soviet Union and United State's space race was at its pinnacle; one of the most significant wars during the Cold War, the Korean War was finally reached its end; both nations were equipped with devastating atomic bombs. ... Nixon was predominated by the rising tension of the Cold War. ... The Cold War The Space Race As the tension of Cold War started to amplify, since in the late 1950s, space became one of the most prominent subjects of the two nations' competition. ... Finally, in 1959, the Soviet Union launc...

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The Nature of War War is part of God's world-order. ... The Cold War was in full force and the American government felt it needed to stop the spreading Communism in South East Asia. ... War is part of God's world-order, in war all man's evil desires are unleashed upon the enemy. War is an evil act, and can change any man. All forms of war should be stopped. ...

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JFK's pragmatic approach in dealing with the USSR led to the outcome of events related to the Cold War in the early 1960's. ... The culture of paranoia during the Cold War should have been enough to at least suggest to the administration that this scenario was possible. ... In fairness to both sides, the Cold War was full of deceptions and misjudgments on both sides. ... The Cold War was essentially a game of "chicken-. ... If the Cold War was a game of "chicken- then JFK was correct to think that the Russians would blockade Berlin in response to the naval blockade. ...

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The Vietnam War was also another event that shaped the way Americans viewed war and how they viewed the rest of the world. ... During the cold war the Cuban missile crisis was one of the most important events happening in the news at that time. ... America was fighting a war over in Vietnam during the 70's against communism. ... Many anti-war demonstrations were being held everywhere in the United States. ... From the Vietnam War being the first televised war, to the United States spy plane being *censored* down over China, the media is a big influence on how we view the world. ...

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The Soviet Union would come to declared war on the capitalist nations of the West. ... This cold war rivalry, would soon emerge into a contest to obtain allies. ... The U.S. would come to pay attention to Latin America, that it was supposed to at the beginning of the cold war, and take action to stop the spread of communism. ... 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. ... In my understanding of the cold war situation the U.S. used all means poss...

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The purpose of the blockade was so the Communist powers could take over in thought that the allies would retreat and the Communists could win the Cold War. ... Kennedy delivered his "Ich bin ein Berliner" speech in Berlin in response to the attempted spread of Communism around the world by the Communist party during the cold war. ... It could be say the allied forces fighting for the Communist part to stay out of Berlin was negative in the Cold War and that if the Soviets won the Cold war it would have been better than if the allies did. ... Kennedys speech "Ich bin ein Berliner" it...

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With Cuba under new rule the United States has yet another conflict adding to the cause of the cold war.  With Fidel Castro in charge of Cuba, the United States could possible face a closer enemy then before. ... The change of the Cuban Government has yet to play a major part in the cold war. ...

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It nearly initiated a global nuclear war, the likes of which the world may not have recovered from. ... Seeing as the Cold War was essentially a nuclear arms race, there was hardly any other choice for the Soviets than to make a similar tactical move and place missiles into a location of equal distance. ... All of these factors combined were enough to convince President Khrushchev that action had to be taken in order to not lose public support at home and decline in power in regards to the Cold War. ... This was a key decision in preventing a possible war. ... [Significance] In relation to the...

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The Cuba Crisis (1962) The developement of the Cold War until the Cuba Crisis (1945 - 1962) After the unconditional (bedingungslos) capitulation of Germany on may 8th 1945 the Cold War between the two power blocks USA and UdSSR started. ... The SU countered warning that every aggression against Cuba would lead to a common war. ... Definitions The Cold War: Name used for the dispute between the East and West block; ideological and propagandist attacks, armament race, avoiding of military conflicts The EX -COMM: Made of 12 advisors which head was the ...

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In the 1960's the Cold War was obviously a topic on everyone's' mind. ... This was an underlying objective for the Peace Corps, to fight the cold war. ... Now, even though the Cold War has ended, the Peace Corps is still in existence. This is because fighting the Cold War was not the only reason for the Peace Corps. ...

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The league was based on a new concept: collective security against the "criminal" threat of war. ... In 1918, as one of his Fourteen Points summarizing Allied aims in World War I, United States president Woodrow Wilson presented a plan for a general association of nations. ... The covenant was formulated as part of the Treaty of Versailles, which ended World War I, in 1919. ... Cold War: The cold war is the post-1945 struggle between the United States and its allies and the group of nations led by the Soviet Union. ... The two countries fought against Germany during World War II, but this a...

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Kennedy came from a wealthy well-known family and was a democratic, navy war-hero from Massachusetts. ... On January 12 Eisenhower and his advisers discussed reports on U.S. limited war, reaching the conclusion that "U.S. capabilities to conduct limited war are substantial and will show a further improvement on the basis of the 1962 budget as submitted." ... Another thing that JFK wanted to do was to avoid war in Vietnam and solve it peacefully, but he ended up sending soldiers to Vietnam which started a war. Also during his presidency there was a nuclear cold war between the U.S. and the Sovi...

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When John Kennedy was born, the United States had just entered World War I, after the war was over, his father started investing on buying and selling movie companies. ... Navy from 1941 - 1945.World War II broke out despite the practice of appeasement, and America entered the war after Japan bombed Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941. ... During the six year term That he served, the U.S. and the Soviet Union where having the Cold War. The Cold War was the struggle, at the end of World War II, between the Soviet Union and the United States for world supremacy. ... In 1953 after the war, h...

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Kennedy (JFK) the president of the United States which occurred on the 22nd of November 1963 in Dallas, Texas during the Cold War. ... Kennedy had many worries and one of them was about the possibility of a nuclear war between the United States and the Soviet Union, and if there was a war millions of lives would be lost. ... Taking place during the Cold War, it was at first unclear whether the shooting might be part of a larger attack upon the U.S, many of the citizens were unsure whether if they should seek refuge or fight back. ...

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After the end of World War II, the United States and the Soviet Union were engaged in a fierce war, one without fighting, however. Called the Cold War, this war was fought on the political stage instead of the battlefield. ... However, after the war ended, the Soviet Union and the United States became bitter enemies again, much like they were before the war. This "cold war," as it was called, lasted until the 1990's when the Soviet Union finally fell. At the climax of the Cold War was the Cuban Missile Crisis, which occurred during thirteen days in 1962. ...

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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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The Cuban missile crisis was the closest the world ever came to nuclear war. ... Kennedy and Premier Nikita Khrushchev, who were brave enough to prevent the war. ... The crisis almost became World War 3 and the 1st nuclear War. ... The main object of the Soviet Union was to modified and balance the atomic weapons displayed in the war, till then inconvenient for the Russ. ... Conclusion The end of the crisis established an advance to the end of the Cold War. ...

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During World War II, he commanded a PT (torpedo) boat in the Pacific. ... After the war, Kennedy worked for several months in 1945 as a reporter for the Hearst newspapers, covering a conference in San Francisco that established the United Nations. ... Kennedy's economic programs launched the country on its longest sustained expansion since World War II. ... In the height of the Cold War period, Kennedy displayed moderation and a firm hand in foreign policy. ... At the risk of all-out nuclear war, Kennedy engaged in a showdown with the Soviet Union over its missile installations in Cuba, w...

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CUBAN MISSILE CRISIS Soviet Union was very much behind the United States in the arms race or the Cold War. ... President Kennedy was able to maintain peace and keep the world from entering into what could possibly have been the very first nuclear war. ...

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