Khrushchev Speech Analysis

In late 1950s and during 1960s, the Soviet-US tension started to reach its peak. After Khrushchev ended the speech with saying “We will bury you,” the Communist tried to proof that the era of capitalism over, which means that people are reached to the final destination as Karl Marx (a first person to come up the idea of the communism) stated in the communist Manifesto. The Cold War could be seen as the time that dictatorship of the proletariat tried to spread the communism and become a real communist state; the opposition was the capitalist bourgeoisie, the first world. There were a number of battles whether involving military actions or not that the communist and the capitalist fought. Moreover, it was all connected to the Khrushchev’s statement.
The Soviet Union launched the first Earth satellite, Sputnik 1 (Lecture notes). Although it was nothing more than radio antennas, it showed that the Soviet Union had the technological advantage. Moreover, it was the beginning of the space battle. In 1958, the United States created the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, known as the NASA. The space battle, however, is not only battle the US and the USSR fought, the conflict in Cuba was one of the biggest events because Cuba is geographically just under the United States. When Fidel Castro seized power, Cuba signed the trade agreements with Soviet Union, and next year, he took control of US assets in Cuba (Lecture notes). The Cuban missile crisis also affected the United States. The Soviet-US tension reached its peak in1962. Both country was about to launch the nuclear missiles to each other. The Vietnam War also started around this time. It costed harshly for the US, and the US had to give up the Vietnam. Eventually, Vietnam became the communist. However, when the Soviet Union started the invasion of Afghanistan, a similar situation occurred to the Soviet Union. The invasion of Afghanistan was “the Soviet ‘Vietnam’” (Lecture notes). The Soviet Union was buried by