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- 191: The Transition of Power From President to President
- ... still held fast in Europe. Along with his crusades for peace, he allowed Cuban exiles to fight their own country in hope to rid it of Fidel Castro who took Cuba by force. Unfortunately the exiles were poorly trained and equipped and were soon crushed. For peace reasons Kennedy ordered a quarantine of all weapons heading for Cuba because of the Russians plan to install nuclear missiles there. Because of this quick action JFK avoided a possible nuclear war. After this incident he slowed down the arms race ...
- 192: Ernest Miller Hemingway
- ... go on. At age 31 he wrote Death in the Afternoon, about bullfighting in his beloved Spain. Ernest was a restless man; he traveled all over the United States, Europe, Cuba and Africa. At the age of 37 Ernest met the woman who would be his third wife; Martha Gellhorn, a writer like himself. He went to Spain, he said, to ... women. In 1940 he wrote For Whom the Bell Tolls and dedicated it to Martha, whom he married at the end of that year. He found himself traveling between Havana, Cuba and Ketchum, Idaho, which he did for the rest of his life. During World War II, Ernest became a secret agent for the United States. He suggested that he use ...
- 193: JFK
- ... foreign policy. In April 1961, a force of anti-Castro Cubans, under direction of the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency prior to Kennedy’s election, failed in their invasion of Cuba at the Bay of Pigs. Kennedy accepted responsibility for this political misstep, which was considered an enormous setback in foreign relations. At the risk of all-out nuclear war, Kennedy engaged in a showdown with the Soviet Union over its missile installations in Cuba, which were ultimately withdrawn by the Soviets in October, 1962. Kennedy attempted to slow the arms race by negotiating a partial nuclear test ban treaty with the Soviet Union in ...
- 194: JFK: His Life and Legacy
- ... movement was going in full force with incidents breaking out. Specific attention gathered around a black air force veteran, James Meredith, applied for admission to the University of Mississippi. In Cuba both the Bay of Pigs occurred, in which U.S. supported rebels revolted in a poorly laid out plan of events that fell out beneath them, and the Cuban Missile Crisis in which the Soviet Republic were building missile silos in Cuba, 100 miles away from Florida. The Space Race was in full force with both Russia and the U.S. in competition to reach the moon. U.S. involvement in Vietnam ...
- 195: The Life Story of Nikita Khrushchev
- ... friend, took responsibility for the affair and, by doing so, greatly embarrassed the Soviet Premier. Then, just a few years later, when the Soviet Union was caught positioning missiles in Cuba, Khrushchev was forced to remove them and leave Cuba. Incidents like this began to mount, and many Party members sought to remove him. Finally, in October 1964, he was forced out of office. His remaining years were spent in ...
- 196: Grenada
- ... economy. And the notion that the construction workers were Cuban soldier is ridiculous considering half of them were over forty and all interviewed by foreign reporters upon arriving back to Cuba. To further dispute that the airport was a military installation is the foreign investment and involvement. The British technicians from the Plessey company worked with the Cuban civilians in construction ... members of the Atlantic alliance contributed in one way or another in the construction of the airport. It is ludicrous to think that England or these other countries would help Cuba construct an military airport(O¡¯Shaughnessy 235-237). The numerous contradictions and blunders of the invasion comes from little research and preparation. Our enthusiastic attitude reflected that of William Casey ...
- 197: Autobiography on Ernest Hemingway
- ... wars. For example, in "A Farewell to Arms", he focussed on how war had no meaning, and was futile. Following the war in Europe, Hemingway returned to his home in Cuba, and his fourth marriage was with Mary Welsh-a correspondent whom he had met in London and whom he would be married to for the last time. In 1953, Hemingway ... and egocentric. Hemingway was hedonistic and dedicated, in love with life and yet by his own admission obsessed with death." (Hemingway 221 (2)) By 1960, Hemingway was driven out of Cuba (Because of Castro), and moved to Finca, and then he moved to a house in Ketchum, Idaho. Hemingway was suffering from severe depression, and anxiety attacks. He had gone to ...
- 198: Blind Idealism In Twain's "War Prayer" and Howell's "Editha"
- ... numerous articles and stories that openly illustrate their convictions. A key event in the midst of this imperialistic movement is the Spanish American War. Under the idealistic guise of liberating Cuba from foreign oppression, the United States capitalizes on this conflict to further its' global power and influence. The United States annexes Puerto Rico, Guam and the Philippines and exerts substantial economic influence over Cuba as the spoils of war. Twain and Howells uses this historical event as a source for their respective literary works, "War Prayer" and "Editha". The authors' common purpose in these ...
- 199: Military Technology
- ... United Nations. Therefor the western countries\\' intelligence\\'s know very little about these mines, which are mostly made and kept in countries like Russia, Tajikistan, Serbia, Pakistan, Morocco, China and Cuba. The military intelligence is indispensable for all operations, and the intelligence is depending more and more on the information they get from satellites. Satellites can take spy pictures of whatever ...
- 200: What Is Human Rights Abuse?
- ... poor or unstable country with a record of violence and inept leadership. At this time country's that have been known for human rights abuse in their countries are China, Cuba, Rwanda, and Bosnia-Herzegovina. They have violated their citizen's rights as individuals through senseless killngs, arbitrary detention, and detention. When human rights abuse occurs it may be unknown by ...
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