Our assignment was to write a paper using Robert F. ... In hindsight Kennedy's caution during the crisis saved the United States from possible nuclear war, but the gamble he took was huge. ... Castro would gain security, and Khrushchev would shift the balance in the arms race because his shorter-range ballistic missiles would be capable of hitting the United States. ... Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara was the strongest advocate of the quarantine even though there was plenty of opposition from the Joint Chiefs of Staff, who argued that the naval blockade would be like, "closing the d...

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Robert Kennedy's Thirteen Day has become a minor classic of one of the most dangerous moment in human history. The United States showed us how well the Cuban Missile Crisis was managed. ... These weapons had the capability of wiping out most of the United States in minutes, if they became operational. ... This was so he could protect the citizens of the United States and this showed how much he cared about everyone and knew he could have it under control. ... Robert Kennedy respected Khrushchev for properly determining what was in his own country's interest and what was in the intere...

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The mayor confrontation between the United States and Soviet Union did not happened in Europe. ... The United States" armed forces were at their highest state of quickness ever. ... One side was the United States and the other side was the Soviet Union and China. ... Attorney General Robert Kennedy suggested ignoring the second letter contacted Soviet Ambassador Anatoly Dobrynin to tell him of the United States agreement with the first letter. ... This was the mayor confrontation between the United States and the Soviet Union....

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CUBAN MISSILE CRISIS Soviet Union was very much behind the United States in the arms race or the Cold War. ... President Kennedy saw this as a threat to the United States and to world peace and immediately took action. ... He informed the nation that these missiles were capable of striking the eastern two thirds of the United States as well as much of Latin America. ... Attorney General Robert Kennedy rejected this idea and told Khrushchev that the United States will comply with the first letter. ... He also expressed his trust that the United States will not invade Cuba. ...

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Defense Secretary Robert McNamara during the Vietnam era admits in his memoirs that Vietnam War was a mistake. ... Communist expansion has been feared much by the United States, especially after the Korean War. ... (Dodd 812) United States entered the war to oppose spread of communism in one of the key region of the world United States had to fight communism everywhere it can to protect it influence and maintain existing order. ... He like many people of that had doubts what is true reason why United States entered Vietnam War. ... Robert S. ...

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December 9, 1958, Robert Welch and eleven other men gathered in a meeting hall. ... Then we shall encircle the last bastion of capitalism, the United States of America. ... The John Birch Society was not interested in keeping their message within the United States. ... By stopping the spread abroad, it might just save the United States (Welch 103). Last in Welch's ten step plan to a better America was to reverse the political action for "the gradual surrender of the United States to Communism."" ...

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These new reforms were frequently viewed by the United States as alarming due to the recent rise of communism in the world. ... Relations between the Castro government and the United States began to decline. ... The United States cut off sugar purchases from Cuba and soon afterward placed an embargo on all exports to Cuba except food and medicine. ... Two days later the Cubans trained by the United States and using U.S. equipment landed at the Bay of Pigs on the south central coast. ... In early 1985 the head of the NSC, Robert C. ...

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Khrushchev arrived Saturday morning demanding that the United States agree to remove its Jupiter missiles from Turkey in exchange for a Soviet removal of missiles from Cuba. ... The U.S. president elected to transmit this sensitive message through his brother, Attorney General Robert F. ... I think this was a giant step for the United States as a whole. ... C) This attempt to invade Cuba made Castro feel threaten by the United States. ... In Dec., 1962, Castro released 1,113 captured rebels in exchange for $53 million in food and medicine raised by private donations in the United States. ...

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Robert A. ... The United States remains vulnerable to nuclear, chemical, and biological attacks delivered by various means. ... An argument for a missile defense system says that rogue states could fire nuclear warheads at the United States. There are three reasons that the treat of a nuclear attack from a rogue states is highly unlikely. ... The argument that rouge states could strike us, at any moment, with ballistic missiles is very unlikely to happen. ...

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During President Kennedy's Presidency, he had to make many decisions about the relationship between the United States and the Soviet Union. ... In 1960, Soviet Premier Khrushchev supplied Cuba with nuclear missiles that would put the eastern United States within range of nuclear missile attack. ... The following day, before the United States could respond to the first note a second note was sent by Khrushchev to try and negotiate terms. ... Johnson tried throughout his presidency to get people back on their feet economically and end the poverty in the United States. ... Two types of...

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The book opens with a brief description of the training the soldiers of the 1st battalion 7th Calvary received before leaving the United States. ... Secretary of State Robert Lansing on June 18, 1919, he was looking for help in freeing his people from French colonial domination after the First World War. ... Defense Secretary Robert McNamara's reliance on numbers and the lack of a Vietnam policy contributed to the ill advice Kennedy received. ... The Vietnam War was not a very popular war with the American people and due to the prolonged United States involvement the number of people agai...

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This sharp movie was produced by Wendy Finerman, Steve Tisch, Steve starkey, while directed by Robert Zemeckis. ... This movie shows a life to portray significant social events in the United States of America, in the 1960's to 80's. ... That's how it fits the study of the United States History. ...

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The Cold War Tensions with the United States and Russia have been around for quite some time. Russia and the United States were allies during World War II, but soon after they became enemies. ... This just caused more tension between the two superpowers, the United States and The Soviet Union... Behind that line lie all the capitals of the ancient states of Central and Eastern Europe. ... Robert Oppenheimer, a nuclear weapons scientist, says "they [nuclear weapons] are not policy weapons but...are themselves a supreme expression of the concepts of total war" (Gilpin 77). ...

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This idea that the Soviet Union was totally responsible for the liberation of all the Balkan states during WWII was total bunk and did not sit well with the Yugoslavs. ... Had the Soviets played a major role in removing the Germans, there is no doubt in my mind that Yugoslavia would have been behind the "Iron Curtain" like the rest of the communist states for the majority of the cold war. ... This was not an easy task but it was made possible by a charismatic leader named Robert Owen. ... Just as the Owenites of New Harmony disbanded after the death of Robert Owen, Yugoslavia could not hold...

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" (Robert Aumann). ... In a diplomatic ambit, this would be a dispute over territory in which both States want the same portion of land. ... At the time the president of the United States was John F. ... Placing this kind of weapons in Cuba would detonate the United States government to a potential attack against the Soviet Union. ... States would have attacked Cuba and it would all have turned out into a big battlefield of nuclear weapons. ...

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The government of the United States believed differently. ... The United States dominated Mexico throughout the entire war. ... In response to this, 11 states seceded to form the Confederate states of America. ... In the spring of 1865, Robert E. ... In August, the United States drop atomic bombs on Hiroshima. ...

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After Johnson announced that he would not accept or seek another Presidential nomination from his party, this left the field open for two people, Nixon and Robert Kennedy. ... Kennedy (Robert) The battle between McCarthy and Kennedy would have been an easy one for Kennedy to pull off, if he hadn't been assassinated two months to the day that King had. ... Kennedy, like McCarthy, would be able to identify with the people of the United States. ...

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Another important element of the campaign was the support Kennedy received from blacks in important Northern states, especially Illinois and Pennsylvania. They supported him in part because he and Robert Kennedy had tried to get the release of the civil rights leader Martin Luther King, Jr. ... Congress passed a major housing bill, a law increasing the minimum wage, and a bill granting federal aid to economically depressed areas of the United States. ...

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He beat out Senator Robert Taft for the nomination. ... The winner only needs two hundred and seventy electoral votes to become the President of the United States. ... The United States had 33,629 causalities and another 105,785 were wounded. ... " As President, Dwight Eisenhower was a good leader and did many positive things for the United States. ... Without Eisenhower, the United States probably would have become embroiled in another war. ...

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On March 1985, Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev was elected general secretary of the Communist Party in Russia. Gorbachev inherited by his predecessors a stagnant economy and a "well fed" bureaucracy. Moreover, he was called to face a population that had learned to live in fear of the government and t...

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Nonetheless, the United States had a secret weapon: the atomic bomb. ... Robert Oppenheimer, a physicist that headed the Manhattan Project to create the atomic bomb recalled that "I don't think there was any time where we worked harder at the speed-up than in the period after the German surrender.". ... It is also the opinion of many historians that traditional firebombing would have been just as effective in damaging Japanese moral and cities, without making the United States the first country to ever use nuclear arms. ...

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The Treaty of Versailles was hammered out by the "Big Four," which were the leaders of the United States, France, Great Britain, and Italy (Mack 667). ... The Great Depression was not only in the United States, but it affected the entire world. ... The zones were given to the United States, Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, France, and the United Kingdom. ... The United States, French, and the British had control of the West. ... Then we look to the Western half of Germany, which was molded to follow the free and democratic ways of the United States, French, and Great Britain. ...

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