The United States offered $13 billion in economic aid to countries like France, Great Britain, Turkey, and Greece in order to ensure economic stability and to stop the spread of communism. After World War II, the US was worried about the Soviet Union and their communis system spreading to other European countries. This is why they gave these countries aid. This is also why the Soviet Union refused it, as they realized the US’s intentions at this time.
On this day in History, The Cuban Missile Crisis comes to an end on Oct 28, 1962. The United States and the Soviet Union that came close to provoking a nuclear conflict. Relations between Cuba and the Soviet Union were on shaky ground. The Cuban Missile Crisis comes to an end. The Cuban Missile crisis comes to a close as Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev agrees to remove Russian missiles from Cuba in exchange for a promise from the United States to respect Cuba’s territorial sovereignty. This ended nearly two weeks of anxiety and tensions between the United States and the Soviet Union that came close to provoking a nuclear conflict. The consequences of the crisis were many and varied. Relations between Cuba and the Soviet Union were on shaky ground for some time after Khrushchev’s removal of the missiles, as Fidel Castro accused the Russians of backing down from the Americans and deserting the Cuban revolution. European allies of the United States were also angered, not because of the U.S. stance during the crisis, but because the Kennedy administration kept them virtually in the dark about negotiations that might have led to an atomic war. Inside the Soviet Union, hardened for less than a year after the crisis ended the United States and Soviet Union.
~Mr. Sanders
11th Grade Social Studies Teacher
The spread of Buddhism in northern India. Due to the movement of people's from Korea into northern India.
Carl Vinson was extremely supportive of the US Navy in their roll of defense, however, though this is the case he never favored the financial gain of under US military branches to aggregate the Naval funds at the time. So the first answer, answer A, if false. Though Carl Vinson was pro Navy, this didn't mean that the Navy could start retiring it men, the number stayed roughly the same, because of course we had people actually retiring or enlisting. This makes option B false. Other nations were always a threat, maybe no apparent to the US but seeing how the United States reacts to situations, this is a gross understatement. Option C is false. His efforts DID in fact help naval expansion needed in order to defend Pearl Harbor during attack. Option D is correct.
Barbour and wright intimate that jefferson included in the declaration of independence a laundry list of alleged offenses that king george iii committed against the american colonists in order to convince their fellow colonists that they were doing the right thing in breaking from English ruling.
He stated that it is the duty of mankind to break free from a government when it has became a tyranny and don't guarantee human rights anymore. So, he included the list of alleged offenses in order to prove how the English government has become a tyranny against the colonies.
