That’s All because a good decision can result in a rewarding aftermath‚ and a bad decision can result in a poor aftermath.” In 1983‚ Stanislav Petrov‚ a colonel in the Soviet Air Defense Forces faced an important decision to react to the nuclear missile attack warnings in the Cold War. He refused to notify the officials to send a counter-attack against the U.S.‚ and at the end‚ it was a false alarm‚ and he prevented a nuclear war against the U.S. This shows how important‚
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war on terror at Guantanamo Bay is doing something unconstitutional. The main reason the U. S decided to use Guantanamo was after 9/11 in an attempt to fight the war on terror. The use of Guantanamo goes back to the Spanish civil war‚ and even when Cubans were sent to this prison by Castro. Guantanamo also is currently in debate on its closing. Guantanamo Bay was first discovered in 1494‚ by Christopher Columbus. Christopher sailed here on an attempt to locate gold. Although no gold was found the
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Virtual JFK offers an excellent view into how John F. Kennedy made decisions to keep Americans from being involved in communist conflict. However‚ from the name of the documentary and the introduction I had believed the documentary would offer an actual perspective on what actions John F. Kennedy would have taken after November 22‚ 1963. Instead‚ I found the documentary to be a well put together inside view on the Presidency of Kennedy‚ an overview of the Johnson administration‚ and the often untold
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The Red Umbrella After the Cuban revolution started in 1959‚ thousands of families began immigrating to different countries. They did not care so much about the country they were going to live in‚ all they care about was escaping from that revolution and its consequences. One perfect example of this is the book The Red Umbrella written by Christina Diaz Gonzalez. It is a true story that took place in Cuba in 1961when more than 14‚000 children had to come to the United States to escape Castro’s regime
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Page 1 3-2 Final Project Milestone One: Bay of Pigs and The Cuban Missile Crisis: Blakely Funderburk His 245 Southern New Hampshire University Page 2 During the 1950s and 1960s America was both in hiatus on both the domestic and international front. The war had been won‚ and Germany and Japan had surrendered in 1945. It was a huge victory throughout the world. World War 2 was a victory not only to conquer the Nazi Germany regime‚ but the war had also brought the United States out
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What were the causes of the Cuban missiles crisis? How was the crisis resolved and what were its consequences? In October 1962‚ the world came the closest it has ever been to a nuclear war. Since Cuba was tied into not only an economic relationship with the Soviet Union but also a political one‚ the USA decided that the time had come to remove Castro and his regime from Cuba after Castro nationalised US owned oil companies and seized $1 billion of US assets on Cuba in October 1960. In defending
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Dr. Strangelove is a satire of the doomsday and cold war‚ and black comedy directed by Stanley Kubrick. This film examines what happens when a renegade U.S. general orders a nuclear strike at the heart of the Soviet Union. The character where General Buck Turgidson‚ Brigadier General Jack Ripper and Peter Sellers‚ who had multiple roles; the nerdy U.S. president seeking to make sense of the madness‚ a British officer‚ Mandrake tries to stop the runaway general and the insane Dr. Strangelove‚ who
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Prior to President John F. Kennedy’s election‚ The cold war continued between America‚ China‚ the Soviet union‚ and Germany‚ America was facing civil unrest regarding race and segregation with extraordinary figures like Rosa Parks fighting for equality‚ and lastly tensions rising high with the soviet union shooting an American plane out of the air- the same year President Kennedy is elected. Assuredly‚ America was facing a great deal and basically implanted in the right very center of a chaotic time
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In Robert McNamara’s memoir‚ In Retrospect‚ McNamara provides intimate details on the events surrounding both the Kennedy‚ and Johnson administration. Moreover‚ he reflects on the some of the most controversial issues surrounding the cold war era‚ specifically‚ the “the Tonkin Golf Incident”‚ and the resolution it gave way to. McNamara examines what he believes to be the key questions surrounding these events that have sparked debate for decades. Did attacks occur on two US naval warships in the
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for the Cubans; it was the year of the collapse of the Soviet Union. This year was very important‚ because it was an end to the economic subsidies and trade agreements between Cuba and the Soviet Union. Without the Soviet Union present in the Cuban economy‚ many state enterprises were closed. In 1990 the government imposed a program called ‘Special period in time of peace’. In this period‚ the imports dropped 75% and the deficit rose to 33%. In order to earn foreign exchange‚ the Cuban government
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