'Missile crisis' presentation slideshows

The Cold War

The Cold War. Who : The U.S. and allies versus the Soviet Union and allies What : An Intense rivalry which developed at the end of WWII between groups of Communist and non-Communist nations. The Cold War. When : End of WWII to the collapse of the Soviet Union (1945 to 1991)

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The New Frontier & Great Society

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Principles of Comparative Research

Principles of Comparative Research. Some review slides Robert Thomson. Some themes that run through the course. The distinction between qualitative and quantitative research is stylistic Empirical research of all types should be theory-driven

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D +

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Using and Citing Sources

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The Consensus of the Fifties and Early Sixties

The Consensus of the Fifties and Early Sixties. The Affluent Decades. Consensus Eisenhower and Centrism Moderate Conservatism. 1959 Cadillac. Prosperity. GNP doubled between 1940 and 1950. Real personal income increased 50%. Unemployment was 5% or less.

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The Cold War and Nationalism

The Cold War and Nationalism. 1945-2001 Chapter 30-1. Origins of the Cold War: War-time Conferences. War-time Conferences: Tehran Conference 1943 Yalta Conference 1945 Potsdam Conference 1945. Tehran Conference 1943. USSR was guaranteed to be the only power to liberate Eastern Europe.

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Cold War: JFK and the Trouble With Castro 1960-1963

Cold War: JFK and the Trouble With Castro 1960-1963. FIDEL CASTRO. ON JANUARY 1, 1959 REVOLUTION IN CUBA SUCCESSFULLY OVERTHREW THE GOVERNMENT. ON JANUARY 6 TH FIDEL CASTRO BECAME PREMIER AND LATER COMMUNIST DICTATOR OF CUBA. MANY CUBANS FLEE TO THE US.

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U-2 Spy Incident (1960)

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The Kennedy and Johnson Years

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Follow The Leader: Leadership Under Pressure

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Cuba

Cuba. Charlie Dornfeld Rachel Gonzalez David Stingley. Background of Cuba. Spanish colony until 1902 when Cuba declared independence The Platt Amendment of 1901 allowed the U.S. to intervene in Cuban affairs, however, Cuba ended this in 1934.

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JOHN F. KENNEDY and LYNDON B. JOHNSON

JOHN F. KENNEDY and LYNDON B. JOHNSON. 1960 Election Kennedy Foreign Affairs Kennedy Domestic Affairs Johnson Finished Term. 1960 Election. Kennedy runs as cold warrior, we must Catch up to soviets, witty, handsome Nixon more experienced TV Debate: 70 million, changed politics

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How to destroy the future

What is the future likely to bring? A reasonable stance might be to try to look at the human species from the outside.

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Cuba: The Bay of Pigs and the Cuban Missile Crisis

Cuba: The Bay of Pigs and the Cuban Missile Crisis. The Bay of Pigs. In 1959, Fidel Castro seized power in Cuba. Castro created a communist nation 90 miles from Florida Many Cubans fled to Florida Castro nationalized many American-owned properties in Cuba.

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cuba

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Chapter 14

Chapter 14. Norton Media Library. Chapter 14. Brinkmanship: The Cuban Missile Crisis. AVINASH DIXIT SUSAN SKEATH. Fig. 14.1. Fig. 14.2. Fig. 14.3. Fig. 14.4. Fig. 14.5. End chap. 14. This concludes the Norton Media Library Slide Set for Chapter 14. GAMES OF STRATEGY.

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The Cuban

The Cuban. 1962. Missile Crisis. Fidel Castro (Communist President of Cuba) and Nikita Khrushchev (Communist leader of USSR). U2 Spy-plane. J ohn F itzgerald K ennedy. What should he do?.

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The Eve of Destruction Humanity Imperiled: Path to Disaster

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