The Cold War was not only about power, it was also about ideology. Several incidents in the Cold War highlight this fact and one of these was the Cuban Missile Crisis, which showed both sides were interested in gaining power and destroying the other side's ideologies. The Berlin Wall showed...

Excitement was high for Cuba, when Fidel Castro overthrew the dictatorship of Fulgencio Batista in January 1959. With a heady mixture of nationalism and left – wing ideologies US became very cautious for its southern comrades Central and Southern America and perhaps herself. When Castro took ...

Excitement was high for Cuba, when Fidel Castro overthrew the dictatorship of Fulgencio Batista in January 1959. With a heady mixture of nationalism and left – wing ideologies US became very cautious for its southern comrades Central and Southern America and perhaps herself. When Castro took ...

The Cold War was caused by many factors which each contributed to the uncertainty and instability of the situation between the America and the Soviet Union. While there were many important factors, only a few stand out as prominent causes of the conflict. First, the decision by America...

The Cuban Missile Crisis is considered to be one of the most important crises of the Cold War. This assumption was made in the light of some questions which arose following the end of the crisis. 1.One fallacy of the crisis was the actual reason for which the missiles were deployed on the Cuban te...