Lenin was a Marxist, as were his successors. He had a vision of making the Soviet Union a country where everyone will be equal, earning the same amount of money, everything will be available to everyone, the country to be self-sustainable. While this may seem as a nice idea, in practice in turned the total opposite. The Soviet Union became one huge concentration camp where around 30 million people lost their lives because they had another political opinion, belong to certain ethnic group, and were people that had it better and succeeded in life. The people were poor, often suffering from malnutrition because of the misjudged planning of the high officials. The economy was not in good condition and was developing very slowly. The country was ruled by a dictator that used violence in order to sort all the problems.
Rosa Parks (1913-2005) performed an act of insurrection when she refused to stand up and give her bus seat, located the bus section that was supposed to be for black passengers, to a white woman after the bus driver requested her to do so because the white section of the vehicle was already full. This happened in Montgomery in 1955. She was arrested for violating the segregation laws from Alabama.
Her action and subsequent arrest triggered the start of the Montgomery Bus Boyycott, as a social protest within Civil Rights Movement that lasted from 1955 to 1956 and aimed to end segregation in US public facilities.
The Bay of Pigs Invasion 1961
Communism
President Kennedy faced a confident Soviet Union, and the Peoples Republic of China. Fears of Communists expansion frightened America.
The Cuban Missile Crisis
The National Security archive at George Washington University, went to a lot of trouble to focus understanding of the Cuban Missile Crisis, Which was the Bay of Pigs.
<span>The PT-109 Incident </span>
<span>August 2, 1943 John F Kennedy was in his PT boat until Japanese PT boats attacked the PT-109. The ship sank killing 2 members but carried out the others alive.</span>
It was the Mexican-American war <span>that brought about the need or desire to begin an expansionist policy with regard to foreign affairs, since the end of this war ceded a lot of new territory that was used by settlers moving west.</span>
