He wouldn't attack Russia nor would he agree to enter Vietnam, which many of his adversaries and supporters believed he should. ... The government knew exactly what they had to do to get their war. ... Only the government had the power to allow Oswald out of the country to become a Russian citizen. Then the government allowed him to return to the U.S. with a Russian wife without the usual red tape. ... Kennedy saved us from war with Russia, Cuba and also would have saved the nation of the disastrous Vietnam War. ...

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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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So many people hated Batista that Cuba became unified against him and Fidel became the leader of the resistance to Batista's government. ... While still in prison, Fidel found out that his wife was working for Batista's government and was demanding a divorce. ... Fidel immediately began leading the revolution against Batista's government and formed the "26 of July Movement," a group of revolutionaries named after the date of his first revolt. ... In 1960, the Castro government took over U.S. oil refineries in Cuba. ... After the Cuban Missile Crisis was over, Castro declined...

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At the time of the Great Depression, government intervention in the economy was higher than it had ever been and a special government agency had been set up specifically to prevent depressions and their associated problems, such as bank panics. ... After a century of friendship, Americans and Russians quarreled over Asian questions in the 1890s, and became enemies in 1917 when the Communists seized power, established the Soviet Union, and declared ideological war on the capitalist nations of the West. ... The two countries fought against Germany during World War II, but this alliance b...

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"I believe in effective governmental action. ... Nixon then commented saying that absolutely no regards should be sent because the U-2 incident was used to protect us from Russia, and we have no obligation to be sorry for it. Most of the questions focused on Russia and Khrushchev, and how the U.S. was going to handle the meetings and conditions Khrushchev was laying down. Nixon and Kennedy agreed basically that the U.S. needed to take action against Russia, and be as strong as possible in the military and economical aspects of our country. ... One question came from Frank Singi...

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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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In 1962 the Cuban government became convinced that the U.S. was planning an attack on Cuba, so Cuba asked military aid from the former Soviet Union. So the Russians responded by giving Cuba missiles and material to build launch sites. ...

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Kennedy had Cuban exiles attempt to over throw the Cuban government run by Fidel Castro. The country of Russia then installed nuclear missiles on Cuba and threatened to use them against us. ... After awhile the Stand off ended, Cuba and the Russians decided to back down and take the missiles away. ...

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There were certain elements, which has lead people to assume that Kennedy's death was a well-planned governmental and criminal conspiracy. ... The Mafia is often known to dress their killers in police or governmental uniform. They were also notorious for having connections with the government. ...

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JFK and the Conspiracy Theory Friday, November 22nd, 1963 began like any other day in the United States. However, by the end of this day, the United States would change forever. At 12:30pm, while making a routine appearance in Dallas, Texas, John Fitzgerald Kennedy was shot while riding down E...

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In June of 1948 the Russians, who wanted Berlin, closed all the highways, railroads, and canals from west occupied Germany into western-occupied Berlin. ... On August 13, 1961, the Communist government of German Democratic Republic began to build a barbed wire fence between East and West Berlin. ...

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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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Fidel Castro had just become the President of Cuba, and openly embraced Communism as a form of government, something which the United States was completely opposed to. Castro and the Cuban government had become the first Communist country in the Western Hemisphere by December 1960 (Finkelstein 26). ... The premier of Russia and the head of the Communist Party, Nikita Khrushchev, felt that the United States was a threat to the Soviet Union and decided to place missiles in Cuba in retaliation for the missiles in Turkey (Finkelstein 13, 23). ... Premier Nikita Khrushchev had previously told t...

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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. ... Governor Ross Barnett and other state executives pursued disregarding the Supreme Court verdict, inciting a constitutional calamity amongst the federal government and the state of Mississippi. ...

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The thirty-fifth president of the United States of America, John Fitzgerald Kennedy, was a determined man pushing to make great changes for the nation. Coming from Massachusetts, he would have a long journey before he would even step into the White House. Although his father's original plan did not ...

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The 60's saw everything from the election and assignation of the nation's first Catholic president, a divisive war with Vietnam, the space race which led to American astronauts landing on the moon, the Arms Race with Russia, the Civil Rights Movement, the assignation of Martin Luther King, Jr., and on and on. ...

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