1) List the circumstances that lead to a change in Castro’s stand regarding Russia in 1959. On February 16‚ 1959‚ Castro was sworn in as Prime Minister of Cuba‚ and accepted the position on the condition that the Prime Minister’s powers be increased. Between 15 and 26 April Castro visited the U.S. with a delegation of representatives‚ hired a public relations firm for a charm offensive and presented himself as a "man of the people". U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower avoided meeting Castro‚ but
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Freedom and liberty are some of the major reasons why many people came over from England a long time ago. For many people arriving to the new world was scary because they did not know the land. Over time‚ many more people started to arrive and a nation started to development. Some groups of people gained freedom and liberty as time at on. However‚ some groups gained some freedom and liberty but not same equality as the white men had. Women in history have been fighting for their liberty ever since
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The Cold War The cold war was a tense relationship between the Soviet Union and the Americans. The reason why they were fighting was because of the way their countries ran. The Soviet Union communism is a political way of thinking and an idea of how society should work and be organized. Communism is a kind of extreme socialism that says that there should not be social classes or states. Communism says that the people of any and every place in the world should all own the tools‚ factories‚ and
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At the time of my writing‚ the NATO war in Afghanistan has just become the longest war in U.S. history‚ a status it seems likely to retain for some time. It has been‚ and remains‚ a very strange war‚ all the stranger now that General Stanley McChrystal has been fired as commander of NATO forces in Afghanistan following the lamest Douglas MacArthur impression on record. He has been replaced by General David Petraeus‚ the father and executor of the doctrine that lay behind the eventual U.S. military
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Why did the U.S enter the Vietnam War? Background: Much of Vietnam was occupied by France before ww2‚ but these French territories were lost during the War as the Japanese set up a puppet regime in this time. The French tried to regain their former territories around the Early 50s‚ but failed in their attempt as they were defeated by the Communist general Vo Nguyen Giap. They left behind them a buffer zone splitting the North and South of Vietnam. After French troops had withdrawn the Vietnamese
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Religion and the Cold War Between 1910 and 1969 church membership in the United States increased from including 43% of the population to 69%. During these decades the United States faced many issues a whole‚ most notably the Cold War. In the chapter four of the Culture of the Cold War‚ Stephen J. Townsend portrays the significance Communism played in the incredibly fast spread of religion during the Cold War‚ creating a country united through belief in a higher power. This unity was shown through
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China was at war during 1911-1949. In 1911 it was the start of the Communist Revolution‚ and then the Chinese with the Americans had to fight off Japan which continued into World War II. Finally‚ after the Japanese had surrendered the Civil War began in China. The Civil War was one of the most violent acts in Chinese history‚ it lasted for four long years between 1945-1949. The outcome of the Civil War would change China forever. After World War II and the surrender of Japan‚ another long and
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How Significant A Role Did Britain Play In The War Against Germany? World War Two was the most devastating war in history. It was a battle of ideologies. Germany fought for control of Europe; The allies‚ Britain‚ America and Russia fought for freedom. The only way to crush an Ideology was total war‚ a devastating method of warfare killing an estimated 55 million civilians. The war ended the lives of 3% of the world population at the time. While all the allies suffered casualties‚ the Russians lost
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The Vietnam Era Antiwar Movement was one of the largest social movements in American history. In 1964 the United States began its military involvement in Vietnam. At this time‚ very few Americans were not against the United States’ involvement. But some Americans believed that the United States should have stayed out of the Vietnam War and should have withdrawn immediately. The U.S intervened because they didn’t want South Vietnam to have a communist take over by North Vietnam. When the U.S started
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Cold War The Cold War was a time of major conflict between the United States and the Soviet Union that started after World War Two. The Cold War dominated international affairs for many years and the space race and the arms race developed because of this competition. By the end of the 1980’s each side had spent trillions of dollars to possess nuclear weapons and the means of delivering these weapons on their enemies. Though many Americans were against the use of nuclear weapons‚ because of the
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