... use nuclear weapons to defend if the island was invaded; the United Sates armed forces were also ready to fight. At the time the president of the United States was John F. Kennedy. In April 1962, Nikita Khrushchev who was the Soviet Premier conceived the idea of placing nuclear weapons or missiles in Cuba. Placing this kind of weapons in Cuba would ... . After a lot of thinking and discussing wich lasted seven days the EX-COMM concluded to impose a naval quarantine around Cuba, this was a blockade that consisted that the U.S navy had to block any missiles from arriving in Cuba because Ke...

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... of Southeast Asia, the United States worst fear. That is why U.S. got involved because we feared communist takeover ("Vietnam War-). Eisenhower was also one of those quiet presidents', but when John F. Kennedy came into office, all hell broke lose. When President Kennedy took office in January of 1961, there were only 900 official U.S. Military Advisors in South Vietnam. By the end ... war ("Vietnam War-). Nixon gradually reduced U.S. ground troops in Vietnam, but he increased the bombing ("Vietnam War-). Nixon expanded air and ground operations into Cambodia and Laos in attempt to bloc...

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... . Nation building was failing the South, and, in 1960, communist cadres created the National Liberation Front (NLG) or Vietcong as its enemies called it, to challenge the Diem regime. President John F. Kennedy concurred with his predecessor's domino theory and also believed that the credibility of U.S. anticommunist commitments around the world was imperiled in 1961. Consequently, by 1963 he had tripled American ... he increased the bombing; the tonnage dropped after 1969 exceeded the already prodigious levels reached by Johnson. Nixon expanded air and ground operations into Cambodia and...

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... . Nation building was failing the South, and, in 1960, communist cadres created the National Liberation Front (NLG) or Vietcong as its enemies called it, to challenge the Diem regime. President John F. Kennedy concurred with his predecessor's domino theory and also believed that the credibility of U.S. anticommunist commitments around the world was imperiled in 1961. Consequently, by 1963 he had tripled American ... he increased the bombing; the tonnage dropped after 1969 exceeded the already prodigious levels reached by Johnson. Nixon expanded air and ground operations into Cambodia and...

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... and economically more and more to the Soviet Union - which represented a not acceptable safety risk for the USA. The on november 8th 1960 new elected democratic president of the USA, John Fitzgerald Kennedy wanted to dam the soviet influence on Cuba - because of this he put at the beginning of his term of office in april 1961 a decision which first inflicted ... each country had to think of a nuclear strike back in case of his first nuclear strike. Definitions The Cold War: Name used for the dispute between the East and West block; ideological and propagandist attacks, armament race, av...

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... thousands refused to go home and were either kept in the south or sent to Taiwan. Sigmund Rhee then ordered the release of 24,000 North Korean Prisoners to help block the upcoming ceasefire. Matters of state had changed however. President Eisenhower had decided to end the war but promised Rhee continued U.S. support to get his agreement that the ROK wouldn ... . (Little, Brown and Company) Clay Blair 1987. The Forgotten War: America in Korea 1950-1953, 2nd ed. (Doubleday) James L. Stokebury 1988. A Short History of The Korean War, 1st ed. (Quill) John Tolan 1991. In Mortal Combat: Korea,...

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... led to a climax of tension in the form of the Berlin Blockade in June 1948. The USSR demonstrated its desire to remove the Western powers from Berlin as the Soviet block was threatened by the defections of masses of people and also the new currency that the Western powers had introduced. Berlin was the point where it all came to a head ... President by Eisenhower McCarthyism spread throughout America and it became common for people accused of being slightly communist to be arrested. Also at this time a policy was developed called Brinkmanship. John Foster Dulles properly introduced this...

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