John Kennedy ran for a seat in the House of Representatives in 1946, beating his republican opponent by a large margin, he served as a congressman for six years. In the 1952 election JFK beat his republican opponent for a seat in the Senate. In 1953 he was married to Jacqueline Bouvier. The following two years saw Kennedy become severely ill after multiple spinal operations, he received catholic last rites. In 1956 Kennedy was nominated for Vice President, but finished 2nd to Senator Estes Kefauver of Tennessee.
The division of Germany into four regions of interest and also the division of Berlin resulted in an attempt by Stalin to make the Western Allies relinquish control of their sectors. This materialized in the form of the Berlin Blockade in 1848 that resulted in the Allied Berlin Airlift which supplied West Berlin for an amazing ten months solely by plane. Although Stalin relented, he felt resentment toward the Westerners. This accelerated the formation of NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organization) in 1949 which resulted in a Soviet counterpart called the Warsaw Pact. The promises on the part of reunification of Germany and free elections in Poland had not materialized by the time of his death in
In the early 1960s, the citizens of East Germany, controlled by the Soviets, were unhappy with their communist lifestyle, so they started to flee to West Berlin, where the people were free. In August 1961, the U.S.S.R. and East Germany built a wall that separated West and East Berlin, which prevented people from crossing over. Guards were stationed on the East side, and were told to shoot anyone who
Truman/Eisenhower 38th Parallel- 38 degrees North Latitude which separated North and South Korea Benjamin Spock- wrote his book “Common Sense Book of Baby and Child Care” Berlin Airlift- a 327 day operation in which U.S and British planes flew food and supplies into West Berlin after the Soviets blockaded the city in 1948 Blacklist- a list of about 500 actors, writers, producers, and directors who were not allowed to work on Hollywood films because of their alleged communist connections Bracero- Mexican laborer allowed to enter the United States to work for a limited period of time during World War II. Brinkmanship- the practice of threatening an enemy with massive military retaliation for any aggression Brown v. Board of Education
Roosevelt, the president of America, Stalin the general secretary of Russia and Churchill the prime minister of Britain met to talk about how they were going to stop a Hitler (and his army – Nazi’s) from taking over and killing more innocents. They met twice during world war two, and these meetings were called “conferences”. The first time they met was in a city called Teheran in the country of Iran in November 1943. Churchill and Roosevelt agreed to send another group of soldiers to help stop then bad men (Hitler and the Nazis’), they called this action the “second front”. Stalin’s country nicknamed themselves the “Soviet Union” and he got Roosevelt and Churchill to agree that he and the Soviet Union could declare war on Japan once Hitler and Germany were defeated.
It was a diplomatic crisis between Iran and the United States where 52 Americans were held hostage for 444 days from November 4, 1979, to January 20, 1981, after a group of Islamist students and militants took over the American Embassy in Tehran in support of the Iranian Revolution. President Carter called the hostages victims of terrorism and anarchy, adding that the United States will not yield to blackmail. President Carter applied economic and diplomatic pressure on Iran such as oil imports from Iran were ended on November 12, 1979, and through the issuance of Executive Order 12170, around US$8 billion of Iranian assets in the U.S. were frozen by the Office of Foreign Assets Control on November 14. After failed attempts to negotiate a release, Carter approved an ill-fated secret rescue mission, Operation Eagle Claw on April 24, 1980, which resulted in a failed mission, the deaths of eight American servicemen, one Iranian civilian, and the destruction of two aircraft. After months of negotiations the United States had agreed to release several billion dollars in Iranian gold and bank assets, and the government of Iran, involved in a war with Iraq, was desperate for money and therefore seemed willing to release the hostages.
Arthur H. Compton, a well-known physicist, urged the Secretary of War against the use of the bomb. Compton wrote less than three months before “Little Boy” was dropped from the Enola Gay: “Nevertheless, the importance of the problem considered and the weight of the arguments presented for never permitting the bombs to be used in war, are such that I have considered it wise to bring the memorandum immediately to your attention.” Here again Truman is given the opportunity to reevaluate his decision to drop the bomb. The question now is: “What were his motives?” Truman was given numerous opportunities to look at other options, but it is clear to the world, he went forward with his decision and destroyed two cities within Japan’s borders. Truman’s decision was not only based on personal beliefs, but was also based on other mentors who felt using a nuclear weapon was the only logical choice. This decision process would bring back to Truman a memory of a country that had crossed the borders of the United States with an unprecedented attack on Pearl Harbor, in December of 1941.
In November 1989, Germans flooded the wall and the guards were surprised because they have heard nothing about the government lifting the ban. Lifting the ban allowed the Germans to freely pass into Berlin. Once everyone realized the ban was lifted, excitement erupted and the Berlin Wall was knocked down. This symbolized to the world that Communist rule in Europe ended. Two years after the destruction of the Berlin Wall, the Soviet Union buckled.
President Kennedy John Fitzgerald Kennedy became our 35th president in 1960. He was born in Masssachusetts and joined the Navy after the graduating from Hardvard. He started his political after getting out of the Navy in the mid fortys. He married Jacqueline Bouvier and had four children. He became out president shortly after and dealt with things like discrimination and nuclear threats to the U.S. Mr. Kennedy died at the age of 46.
John F. Kennedy has become the 35th president of the United States. His most notable inputs: The Cuban Missile Crisis, The Limited Nuclear Test Ban Treaty, Project Apollo, the establishment of the Peace Corps, and proposing The Civil Rights Act of 1964. John F. Kennedy contributed immensely during The Cold War era. John F. Kennedy was running for president in the election of 1960 against Richard