Cuban Missile Crisis
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1. Cuban Missile Crisis
A. Khrushchev, and the Russian military, placed nuclear offensive missiles into Cuba. A U-2 plane taking pictures over Cuba spotted the missile camps in Cuba, and brought it to the attention of the President. After a meeting with Russian officials, the Russian’s assured that the missiles were for defensive purposes only. The U.S. officials knew that the missiles were nuclear and for offensive purposes. So, instead of bombing the area before the missiles were ready, like the White House officials wanted, President Kennedy decided to put a quarantine line on the border of Cuba, to stop Russian ships from delivering nuclear equipment. As the ships got closer and closer to the line, Khrushchev wanting to avoid war, called the ships to turn around. After 2 letters, to and from Khrushchev, Kennedy agreed, that if the Russians dismantled the missiles, and got the equipment out of Cuba, the U.S. would get their missiles out of Turkey, within 6 months.
B. After 2 meetings with President Kennedy, Chairman Khrushchev had observed that Kennedy was weak, and would back down to anything that Khrushchev do. In trying to avoid war, and pretty much mass destruction of half the war, President Kennedy and Chairman Khrushchev ended the crisis by agreeing to remove missiles from Cuba and Turkey respectively.
C. ● To bomb the area in Cuba, where the missiles were, when they were first discovered. – He wanted to avoid a war.
● To either bomb the area, or to set up a quarantine line – he wanted to avoid war.
● To move the quarantine line back – Kennedy wanted to give the Russians more time to avoid war.
● Not to alert Congress of the situation that is going on in Cuba – to avoid mass chaos in the U.S.
D. One of the biggest policies that Kennedy had was that he would not back down. After the 2 meetings with Khrushchev, Kennedy wanted to prove that he wasn’t a weak President. Another was that Kennedy wanted to hold strong to the Monroe Doctrine, which said that no one would “mess'; with the Western Hemisphere unless, the U.S. knew about it. Also see C.
E. Kennedy didn’t inform Congress of the crisis, because he knew that if they knew no decisions...
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...es known in the U.N. as the Chinese Republic
Stood until 1970…when President Carter asked that the U.N. sees Taiwan as China…The U.N. agreed
Cater said that they would protect Taiwan. (U.S. sends planes along Taiwan to make sure China doesn’t invade)
●China is experimenting on putting communism and capitalism together (in the area of Hong Kong)
Constructive Engagement (U.S. foreign policy with China)
The U.S. will continue to talk and trade with China and long as that try to change their ways.
Polish Disease
In Poland people started to rebel against the government, because it was a communist government. When word of this got through to other countries, the people in other countries started to rebel as well. Country after country started to change over to capitalism. When this wave hit China, the Chinese government didn’t want this rebellion to happen, so they brought out their tanks to stop the people for trying to change the way the government works.
In this essay, the author
- Explains that cuban exiles, which were against castro, were ready to sail to cuba and help the u.s. take over cuba.
- Explains that khrushchev believes that he can do what ever, because kennedy will back down. in 1961, president kennedy and chair met in vienna.
- Explains that the monroe doctrine of 1823 said no one would'mess' with the western hemisphere unless, the u.s. knew about it.
- Explains that cuban exiles, which were against castro, were ready to sail to cuba and help the u.s. take over cuba.
- Explains that khrushchev believes that he can do what ever, because kennedy will back down. in 1961, president kennedy and chair met in vienna.
- Explains that the monroe doctrine of 1823 said no one would'mess' with the western hemisphere unless, the u.s. knew about it.
- Describes how white settlers from europe landed in south africa in a manifest destiny.
- Narrates how the reagan administration told apartheid to change in the 1980s.
- Opines that the u.s. will continue to talk and trade with china and long as that try to change their ways.
- Explains that in poland people started to rebel against the government, because it was a communist government. when this wave hit china, the chinese government didn't want this rebellion happening.
- Describes how president kennedy and chairman khrushchev agreed to remove missiles from cuba and turkey.
- Explains that khrushchev's first letter said that the russians would pull the missiles out of cuba if the u.s. promised to not invade cuba.
- Opines that time is necessary to come up with a situation and give the opponent time to back off.
- Narrates how a communist rebellion starts small but grows very large, led by mao, in 1949, and kai-shek is left with only two options.
- Explains that president carter asked that the u.n. sees taiwan as china and cater said that they would protect taiwan. china is experimenting on putting communism and capitalism together.
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- Concludes that the conflict between china and taiwan will result in war because of the political climate between the prc and the united states.
- Opines that if the u.s. didn't think of the worst-case scenario, it would be an economic disaster.
- Quotes eckholm, erik, and steven lee myers. taiwan asks u.s. to let it obtain top-flight arms. perlez, jane.
1957 wordsRead More - Emotion of Death in A Mother in a Refugee Camp, Rember and Do not Go Gentle into that Good Nightexplanatory essay...the island of Taiwan where they overpowered the locals. Chiang Kai-shek renamed the capital Taipei and the ROC recognized the government was the government of Taiwan, however, PRC did not. The United States came in to back up Taiwan from the PRC, which made Taiwan a bargaining chip.
In this essay, the author
- Explains that after world war ii, a civil war broke out between the nationalists and chiang's militia, and the united states aided them in battles.
- Explains that mao zedong was the founding father of the people's republic of china, and the chairman of communist party. during the chinese civil war, he was a major aspect for the survive of their party, the nationalists.
- Explains that great leap forward was to speed up industrialization and make farming more productive, but it abruptly halted agriculture and resulted in 20 to 30 million people dieting from starvation from 1958-1962.
- Explains that after world war ii, a civil war broke out between the nationalists and chiang's militia, and the united states aided them in battles.
- Explains that mao zedong was the founding father of the people's republic of china, and the chairman of communist party. during the chinese civil war, he was a major aspect for the survive of their party, the nationalists.
- Explains that great leap forward was to speed up industrialization and make farming more productive, but it abruptly halted agriculture and resulted in 20 to 30 million people dieting from starvation from 1958-1962.
- Describes the great proletarian cultural revolution during mao zedong's rule. the red guards attacked the emerging elitism in society by attaching bourgeois, communist party officials, and other citizens.
- Explains that deng xiaoping was reinstated after the great proletarian cultural revolution and led the country through the economic transformation.
- Explains that the first four special economic zones were along the coast, with shenzhen, zhuhai, shantou, and ziamen.
- Explains that geography of development focuses on raw-material distributions, cultural traditions, historic factors, environmental issues, and the role of forces of location in the transitions that national and regional economies undergo.
- Explains that when china opened the pacific rim to the market they encouraged overseas chinese to invest their money in their ancestral homeland. deg and his pragmatists helped devise this issue.
- Explains the effects of population control on china's population, which has led to an abundant amount of males compared to females, and 30 million brides short.
- Explains that tibet ended its relationship with china in the 19th century, however, in 1950 the communist regime had returned.
- Explains that inner mongolia is china's inner periphery, but the mainland and island entities of this realm have all the properties of core areas.
- Describes mongolia as a buffer state between two of the most powerful countries in the world, china and russia, and its population of 3 million depend on the nomadic culture.
- Explains that the korean war ended with the divided country, north korea and south korea dividing it is the cease-fire line.
- Explains that south korea was an early economic tiger due to its economic output on the pacific rim. it is the world's largest shipbuilding nation, major automobile manufacturer, and producer of goods.
- Explains the meiji restoration and british influence on japan. they influenced the landscape and cultural ideals of driving on the left side of the road.
- Explains japan's unique modernization because of a combination of modern and traditional elements, an indigenous achievement. japan has resisted foreign intrusion, changing through planning and building onto existing infrastructure to fulfill japanese objectives.
- Explains the changes in japan's relative location following world war ii. japan was defeated, european colonies were disbanded, and the united states was the greatest, strongest nation.
- Explains the reasons for japan's economic slowdown, including government mismanagement, inefficiency, and globalization.
- Explains that chiang kai-shek renamed the capital taipei and the roc recognized the government as taiwan's government, but the prc did not.
- Explains that taiwan had good investments in oil reserves and connections with the overseas chinese. the per-capita annual income in taiwan is still $16,000 higher than the u.s.
1513 wordsRead More - Thirteen Days: The Cuban Missile Crisisanalytical essayThe Cuban Missile Crisis began with a set of photographs taken over Cuba by an American pilot.2 These photographs showed that Russians were building missile bases in Cuba and placing missiles and atomic weapons there that were easily within range of the United States. President JFK and Robert Kennedy were both stunned. From this point a board of advisors was created and called the Ex Comm, who met every day during those thirteen days and debated the various courses of actions, and consequences of each, that the president could take. Kennedy emphasizes the making of this board as a lesson for future government officials because he believes that it "proved conclusively how important it is that the President have the recommendations and opinions of more than one...point of view."3
In this essay, the author
- Analyzes how kennedy's chilling account of his experiences with his brother, president john f. kennedy over thirteen days in october 1962 give an idea of how alarmingly close our country came to nuclear war.
- Describes how the cuban missile crisis began with a set of photographs taken over cuba by an american pilot.
- Explains that kennedy met with the soviet ambassador anatoly dobrynin on several occasions, and he consistently claimed that khrushchev assured him that "there would be no...offensive weapons placed in cuba."
- Analyzes how kennedy's chilling account of his experiences with his brother, president john f. kennedy over thirteen days in october 1962 give an idea of how alarmingly close our country came to nuclear war.
- Describes how the cuban missile crisis began with a set of photographs taken over cuba by an american pilot.
- Explains that kennedy met with the soviet ambassador anatoly dobrynin on several occasions, and he consistently claimed that khrushchev assured him that "there would be no...offensive weapons placed in cuba."
- Analyzes how the president set up a blockade around cuba to prevent soviet ships from bringing in more weapons.
- Narrates how the president and khrushchev exchanged letters asking him to remove the missiles from cuba. the russians continued building up the weapons and at a faster rate.
- Explains that the board members and president carefully planned out their next move, taking into account the delicacy of the situation and the knowledge that their decision would affect not only the u.s., but also the soviet, turkey, nato and all mankind.
- Narrates how the president sent one last letter to khrushchev, and robert kennedy met with dobrynin to alert him that they demanded a decision to remove the missile bases by tomorrow.
- Analyzes how kennedy emphasizes the need for multiple points of view in order to fully examine a situation. without the ex comm board, those thirteen days may have ended quite differently.
- Analyzes how jfk and robert kennedy always keep in mind the perspective of the russians, taking great care not to back them into a corner.
- Explains that kennedy, robert f., thirteen days (new york: w.w. norton & company, 1968).
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