During the Cuban Missile Crisis, leaders of the U.S. and the Soviet Union engaged in a tense, in a political and military standoff in October 1962 over the installation of nuclear-armed Soviet missiles on Cuba, just 90 miles from U.S. shores. In a TV address in October, 1962, President John Kennedy notified Americans about the presence of the missiles, explained his decision to place a naval blockade around Cuba and made it clear the U.S. was prepared to use military force if necessary to put an end to this threat to national security.
Cold War Puerto rico
During the height of the Cold War, Latin Americabecame a strategic pillar. Following the Cuban Revolution and the overthrow of the US-friendly government of Batista, the U.S became concerned with the spread of the Soviets influence in Latin America, becoming heavily invested in retaining as much influence as possible. With the nuclear arms race at its peak, a Soviet transfer of nuclear warheads to Cuba nearly concluded in the onset of World War III in October 1962.
Bay of pigs
The failed invasion helped to strengthen the position of Castro's leadership, made him a national hero, and entrenched the rocky relationship between the former allies. It also reinforced the relations between Cuba and the Soviet Union. Strengthened Soviet-Cuban relations eventually led to the events of the Cuban missile crisisof 1962. The invasion was a significant failure for Kennedy's Us Foreign policy
the Collapse of the ussr
In December of 1991, as the world watched in amazement, the Soviet Union disintegrated into fifteen separate countries. Its collapse was hailed by the west as a victory for freedom, a triumph of democracy over totalitarianism, and evidence of the superiority of capitalism over socialism.
Mr. and Mrs. Andrews
Mr and Mrs Andrews is an oil on canvas portrait of about 1750 by Thomas Gainsborough, now in the National Gallery, London. [more]
the communist party
In political science, a communist party is a political party that seeks to realize the social and economic goals of Communism through revolution and state policy. The term communist party was popularized by the title of the Manifesto of the Communist Party (1848).
The Fighting Temeraire
The Fighting Temeraire tugged to her last berth to be broken up, 1838 is an oil painting by the English artist J. M. W. Turner. HMS Temeraire was one of the last second-rate ships of the line to have played a distinguished role in the Battle of Trafalgar in 1805. [more]
Cold War Dogfights
A dogfight, or dog fight, is an aerial battles between planes, conducted at close range. Dogfighting first occurred in Mexico in 1913, shortly after the invention of the airplane Until at least 1992, it was a component in every major war, despite beliefs after World War II that increasingly greater speeds and longer range weapons would make dogfighting obsolete.
John F. Kennedy
Kennedy's time in office was marked by high tensions with Communists States in the Cold War. He increased the number of American military advisers in South Vietnam by a factor of 18 over President Eisenhower. In April 1961, he authorized a failed joint CIA attempt to overthrow the Cuban government of Fidel Castro in the Bay of pigs invasion. He subsequently rejected Operation North woodlands by the Joint Chiefs of Staff to orchestrate False attacks on American soil in order to gain public approval for a war against Cuba.
the start of the cold war
During World War II, the United States and the Soviet Union fought together as allies against the Axis powers. However, the relationship between the two nations was a tense one. Americans had long been wary of Soviet communism and concerned about Russian leader Joseph Stalin’s blood-thirsty rule of his own country.
