13 Days Cold War
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13 Days and the Cold War The movie 13 days describes the actual events that happened during the Cuban missile crisis of 1962. It was the first time during the Cold War that United States and the Soviet Union nearly engaged in full-scale nuclear war. The president of the United States at the time was John F. Kennedy (Bruce Greenwood). He had to immediately decide the most effective way of action for the country after seeing pictures from a U-2 spy plane showing missiles in Cuba placed by the Soviet Union capable of destroying massive areas of the country. With the help of special assistant Kenny O’Donnell (Kevin Costner) and attorney General, also Brother Robert F. Kennedy (Kevin Costner), the President must avoid bad decisions …show more content…
On February of 1946, The U.S introduced the “Long Telegram” from Moscow that later became the basic strategy against the Soviet Union. Sometime on that same year, the Soviets did the same thing by making the ‘”Novikov Telegram”. The competition kept rising between the two powers and the British Prime Minister at the time, Winston Churchill gave a speech in Fulton, Missouri stating the Anglo-American against the Soviet Union. A year later in 1947, the British government announced that it could no longer finance the Greek military against the Communist wave and the American response to the announcement was the allocation of $400 million given to the Greek government in order to counter the Communism and that helped them win the military civil war. The fund was called the Truman Doctrine. In June of the same year, the U.S supplied another fund known as the Marshall plan which consisted of economically helping all the European countries, Greece, Turkey, including the ones governed by …show more content…
In Khrushchev political views were different than Stalin since he supported war. He threatened the West countries repeatedly about nuclear extermination and claimed that the soviet weapon were much more destructive than the U.S missiles. In 1958, the Soviet leader gave an ultimatum to the west allies to remove their troops from Berlin; however his call was rejected by NATO. Moreover, The U.S and the Soviets competed in influencing third world countries even though some countries choose to stay neutral and not to choose a political or economic side. The next year in 1959, the relationship between Cuba and the United States wasn’t going well since the revolutionary of the time Fidel Castro didn’t support the idea of relying on the United States economically. Before Dwight D. Eisenhower left office, he improved the U.S-Cuban relationship until john F. Kennedy took office after him in 1961 and ordered along with the CIA the failed invasion of the island in “Las Vilas Province” which publically degraded the United States. The Soviet Union took advantage of the situation and brought support to Cuba. At the same time in Berlin, major number of young professionals started to immigrate from the East side to the West viewing more opportunities and better future which resulted in a major “brain drain’’. The Soviets
13 Days and the Cold War The movie 13 days describes the actual events that happened during the Cuban missile crisis of 1962. It was the first time during the Cold War that United States and the Soviet Union nearly engaged in full-scale nuclear war. The president of the United States at the time was John F. Kennedy (Bruce Greenwood). He had to immediately decide the most effective way of action for the country after seeing pictures from a U-2 spy plane showing missiles in Cuba placed by the Soviet Union capable of destroying massive areas of the country. With the help of special assistant Kenny O’Donnell (Kevin Costner) and attorney General, also Brother Robert F. Kennedy (Kevin Costner), the President must avoid bad decisions …show more content…
On February of 1946, The U.S introduced the “Long Telegram” from Moscow that later became the basic strategy against the Soviet Union. Sometime on that same year, the Soviets did the same thing by making the ‘”Novikov Telegram”. The competition kept rising between the two powers and the British Prime Minister at the time, Winston Churchill gave a speech in Fulton, Missouri stating the Anglo-American against the Soviet Union. A year later in 1947, the British government announced that it could no longer finance the Greek military against the Communist wave and the American response to the announcement was the allocation of $400 million given to the Greek government in order to counter the Communism and that helped them win the military civil war. The fund was called the Truman Doctrine. In June of the same year, the U.S supplied another fund known as the Marshall plan which consisted of economically helping all the European countries, Greece, Turkey, including the ones governed by …show more content…
In Khrushchev political views were different than Stalin since he supported war. He threatened the West countries repeatedly about nuclear extermination and claimed that the soviet weapon were much more destructive than the U.S missiles. In 1958, the Soviet leader gave an ultimatum to the west allies to remove their troops from Berlin; however his call was rejected by NATO. Moreover, The U.S and the Soviets competed in influencing third world countries even though some countries choose to stay neutral and not to choose a political or economic side. The next year in 1959, the relationship between Cuba and the United States wasn’t going well since the revolutionary of the time Fidel Castro didn’t support the idea of relying on the United States economically. Before Dwight D. Eisenhower left office, he improved the U.S-Cuban relationship until john F. Kennedy took office after him in 1961 and ordered along with the CIA the failed invasion of the island in “Las Vilas Province” which publically degraded the United States. The Soviet Union took advantage of the situation and brought support to Cuba. At the same time in Berlin, major number of young professionals started to immigrate from the East side to the West viewing more opportunities and better future which resulted in a major “brain drain’’. The Soviets