Cuba was situated only 90 miles from Florida in southern USA. Americans owned most of the businesses‚ banks‚ sugar and tobacco plantations‚ as well as a large naval base. The USA maintained good relations with the pro-American dictator Batista. Batista was overthrown in 1959. 95% of Cuba’s trade was with the USA so the Cuban economy was heavily dependent on the USA. The new leader‚ Fidel Castro wished to reduce USA influence. He nationalised industries and banks and introduced land reforms. This
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What were the turning-point events that kept relations between the Soviet Union and China hostile for over 20 years? There were many disputes between China and Russia between the 1950s and 1960s. The disputes may be caused by ideological differences‚ self-interest‚ personalities of the leaders‚ or domestic problems. Mao and Stalin had ideological differences. Although Mao and Stalin’s ideologies are based on Marxism‚ Stalin believed Mao using the peasants as the basis for revolution is not the
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them. Consequently‚ Republican presidents in particular were constantly suspicious that the USSR was trying to forge a Soviet-Latin American Axis‚ which would give the communists a clear advantage and pose a threat right on the USA’s door step. Khrushchev declared after the crisis had ended that their purpose was only the defence of Cuba since they saw a possibility of defending the freedom-loving people of Cuba by stationing missiles there. However‚ historians argue that he could have opted for
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to prevent the spread of communism to Cuba and other countries. When Cuba turned communist after Fidel Castro overthrew Batista‚ he made allies with Khrushchev the leader of the USSR. Khrushchev saw Castro as a valuable ally and they became very close as Cuba was 70 miles from the southern tip of the U.S.A. They then became very close as Khrushchev said “any enemy of my enemy is my friend. So the USSR supplied weapons and economic aid to Cuba. Eventually Cuba became the centre of the Cold War’s
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historical overview of Soviet Russia’s attempt to practice a peaceful foreign policy while at the same‚ perhaps time maintaining the goal of “world revolution”. Lerner‚ an Assistant Professor of History at Duke University‚ points out that while Khrushchev claimed the Soviets proclaimed peaceful coexistence as the basic principle of their foreign policy‚ the state’s history indicates that “world revolution” was in main goal as opposed to “peaceful coexistence”. In a very well written article‚ Lerner’s
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Russian literature: History Overview Russian literature has long been a cultural focus of the entire world. It’s not surprising that the formation of Russia’s first literary traditions goes back to the first century. The adoption of Christianity boosted the development of literacy‚ philosophy and theological literature. The earliest literary works were not written in the Russian language but in Old Church Slavonic which was developed in the 9th century by Greek missionaries Cyril and Methodius
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HISTORY PROJECT Introduction After the Second World War‚ the U.S.A. and Russia emerged as the two superpowers. During the war‚ there was a mutual understanding between the two nations‚ which however began to evaporate soon after the war. Difference in ideologies and mutual distrust between the two nations led to the beginning of cold war. Both tried to spread their influence and divided the world into two hostile groups. The western European countries came under the influence of America while
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wasn’t until later‚ when the Western Alliance established a currency in their merged section‚ that the Soviet Union had become fed up. So on June 24‚ 1948‚ the Soviet Union created the Blockade of Berlin. The next crisis occurred when Soviet Premier Khrushchev gave the Western powers six months to agree to get out of Berlin. He said if they did so he would give East Berlin back all of its communication with West Berlin. Also‚ he said that the Western powers would gain access to West Berlin only if the
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Neither was he a roughneck like Nikita Sergeyevich Khrushchev‚ who rolled up his sleeves‚ raised his arms and pounded his shoe on his desk during the UN assembly. Dulles was a man of few words. He walked mournfully and sat gloomily in the conference room. A thoughtful person‚ Dulles was not good at
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