4) <u>General Dwight D. Eisenhower</u>
Dwight D. Eisenhower's experience, knowledge of military strategy, persistence, determination, and ability to persuade, to mediate, and to get along with people under his commands, <u>led him to be appointed supreme commander of the Allied Expeditionary Force on December 24, 1943</u>, after having served for more than a year as the commander of U.S. forces in Europe.
Eisenhower was successful in this position, he led several battles of the World War II that contributed to Germany surrender on May 1945.
In the wake of the Bay of Pigs invasion, tensions between the United States and Cuba rose to a fever pitch. Now aware of just how far the Kennedy Administration would go to depose him, Fidel Castro turned to the Soviet Union for assistance. In return, the Soviets began sneaking nuclear missiles into Cuba, which were pointed at the Cuban shores and Florida. In the case of a US invasion of the island, Castro was prepared not only to launch missiles at the US mainland, but also to nuke his own shores to cripple any invading forces. The stockpiling of missiles in Cuba led to the Cuban Missile Crisis between the US and the USSR. Despite the fact that Kennedy proclaimed he ended the crisis and had the missiles removed from Cuba, the Cuban military retained the missiles pointed at their shores just in case of a US invasion.
The main way in which their settlement locations differed is that "<span>The Chavin settled the highlands while the Nazca settled the valleys," since this had to do with their placement. </span>
The transatlantic slave trade began in the 15th century, after the Portuguese started exploring the coast of West Africa. At first the number of enslaved Africans was small. In about 1650, with the development of plantations on the newly colonized Caribbean islands and American mainland, the trade grew.