The reasons why the Cuban Missile Crisis occurred was ultimately the reaction of Soviet Union's attempt to balance power between Communism and Democracy and the fact that America had missiles place in Turkey aiming at Moscow. ... The U.S saw this a threat to their domination over countries to which Democracy was to be introduced. ... In agreement the Soviets placed missiles in Cuba, to help Cuba in case America wanted to attack, due to the conflicts between Cuba and America regarding trade issues of denying export of sugar to America. ... Fidel Castro, since his taking to Communism, ha...

• Word Count: 1988
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By the end of the war 1.3 million South Koreans, 1 million Chinese, 500,000 Northern Korean's, 54,000 Americans were dead (Rees 4). ... That battle ended in 4,280 Americans dead. ... America did however; claim this to be their first defeat in a major battle (Berkeley. 1 edu.). ... South Korea is now a stable democracy with a "vibrant" economy. ...

• Word Count: 1955
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Latin America After world War II until the 1980's, many Latin American leaders installed reforms to deal with new demanding issues in their country. ... The concentration of aid to Europe was a immense concern to the countries of Latin America. Latin America countries wanted the U.S. to stress economic development in the post war era. ... This was due to the lack of attention, financially and politically the U.S. displayed to Latin America. ... In my understanding of the cold war situation the U.S. used all means possible to defend democracy, and had they not taken the steps that they h...

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Democracy had been spreading throughout the world for the preceding two decades, but with a very important difference. ... Preuss notes that when the constitutional state gained favor in North America, it was founded on the principle of the unitary state; it was not designed to address the lack of national identity which is found throughout Europe - and which is counter to the concept of the constitutional state (48). ... According to theories of modernization, the higher the levels of socioeconomic achievement, the greater the pressure for open competition and, ultimately, dem...

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Comparisons of the revolutions in Czechoslovakia and in America enable us to look in some detail at their attempts to vanquish two of the strictest regimes in Eastern Europe and in Northern America . ... Not all of the first American settlers were loyal to the British crown. ... With France removed from North America, the vast interior of the continent lay open for the Americans to colonize. ... It can be demonstrated also in the case of situation in Northern America. ... They sent British troops to "protect Americans" they said. ...

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Comparisons of the revolutions in Czechoslovakia and in America enable us to look in some detail at their attempts to vanquish two of the strictest regimes in Eastern Europe and in Northern America . ... Not all of the first American settlers were loyal to the British crown. ... With France removed from North America, the vast interior of the continent lay open for the Americans to colonize. ... It can be demonstrated also in the case of situation in Northern America. ... They sent British troops to "protect Americans" they said. ...

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Others supported the revisionist view and would claim that it was not an aggression but a self - defence policy and that the American involvement in the South America and therefore its Imperialism resulted in the Cold War. ... However, I should mention that the US government could not simply accept the fact that a country could exist with economic and political principles so critically opposed to democracy and industrial capitalism. ... An angry Khrushchev said in Los Angeles in 1959: "Never have any of our soldiers been on American soil, but your soldiers were on Russian soil." ... Consider...

• Word Count: 1778
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His period of leadership was important for Cuba and with his leadership Cubans were encouraged that a new era of democracy was coming. ... On March 10, 1952, Fugencio Batista overthrew the Prior presidency and declared himself president and ended democracy in Cuba. ... Once he took power, "Castro seized property owned by Americans and other foreigners as well as Cubans. ... The newly elected American President, John F. ... After the failure of the Bay of Pigs invasion, Castro became more and more anti-American. ...

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The four allies decided to rebuild Germany to a Democracy. When World War II ended a post war Europe was divided between Western Democracies and Soviet army occupied nations of Eastern Europe. ... In 1947 the British and American zones were united. ...

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The cold war was a long and tense time in American and European history. ... Afterward, Castro assured the Cuban people that he would stop relying on the American economy. Castro then began to seize American investings and landholdings in his country, and America retaliated by imposing a trade embargo (942). ... Meanwhile, in America, fear over the "Red Menace" continued, with the McCarthy scare just out of the way. And while Castro was at first regarded as a "progressive leader favorably disposed to democracy," as Palmer so ironically puts it (955), people soon learned, with Cuba's incr...

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It has discussed several factors that led to America involvement in World War II. ... It resulted in many European countries to grow anti-American feeling among them. ... It is where the war began, and America wanted to avoid this war. ... America also entered the war to stop fascism and prove to them that democracy was still superior to their form of leadership, America however, imprisoned those were against the war by that time. ... America also wanted to help in shaping the peace of the post-war world. ...

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The central theme in much of traditionalist historiography was an ideological one: the United States, confronted by an implacably hostile foe for which no amount of Western conciliation would satisfy its global ambitions, came to the defense of freedom and democracy, saving the world from the spread of communist rule.8 This was the fortification needed that would generate policies towards dealing with the Soviet Union such as the Marshall Plan and the Truman Doctrine, to which Keenan would also be involved with. The US Government used the scare of Soviet plans for world domination to put the ...

• Word Count: 1800
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Hiram (2012) noted that Soviet Union did not make any confirmation of the agreement till now and, most significantly, no confirmation from the American side has ever been made despite the presence of their ambassador Averell Harriman. ... The Motives of the Author According to Phillips et al. (2009), Churchill's apprehension was that the Americans might adopt a policy of isolationism due to the tiredness of fighting, which they demonstrated after the WWI. Therefore, Churchill realised that even with the support from the Americans, the West might not be effective to prevent Stalin perfo...

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In any case, the Soviet Union was the military occupier of Eastern Europe at the war's end, and so there was little the Western democracies could do to enforce the promised made by Stalin at Yalta. In America, the Polish-American public had to be appeased for popularity and voting purposes. ... In areas of America with large Polish populations, Pennsylvania for example, anti-Communists sentiments burned with a vengeance. ... When the Polish American Congress held its convention in Philadelphia in 1956, the president's keynote speech declared, "Treating the Red criminals as gentle...

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CUBA DURING THE 1940-1950's: Cuba in the fifties was virtually an American colony run by Batiste for the benefit of American sugar barons and the Mafia. ... Only the truly nave would have thought that American business in Cuba would survive the revolution unscathed. ... The embargo was tightened by the Cuban Democracy Act of 1992, and the Cuban Liberty and Democratic Solidarity Act of 1996 (Helms Burton). ... TRADE POLICY: Cuba is the only Latin American country to face trade embargoes from the US. ... Cuba is also a member of the Latin American Integration Association (LAIA). ...

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Eventually, the fall of the Soviet Union left the United States in a unipolar system and we were able to start leading the world in the way that we wanted to with the spread of democracy. ... At the end of Britain's hegemonic cycle, the United States passed them as the largest economy in the world, and in 1895 we had disagreements with Britain over borders in South America (Nye and Welch 82). ... The "normalcy" that Americans in the 1900's were looking for by avoiding their hegemonic role might have actually been achieved by taking on that role and reforming the world the...

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The base of this argument was the different behaviour of dictatorship and democracy. ... The discovery of russian missiles in october by an US - american reconnaissance plane (Aufklãrungsflugzeuge) lead to the Cuba Crisis. ... US - american reconnaissance planes took aerial photos of soviet medium range missiles 16.10. ...

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It also assisted in solidification and polarization in Soviet Union and reinforced a political ideology of democracy (Staffort)." One of the campaigns that was presented by America was 'The Red Scare'. The motive images redefined national identity as a virtuous America who against a destructive social east (Staffort). ...

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