A History of the World From the 20th to the 21st Century

there be placed on American readiness to defend Western interests in Europe or the Middle East or Asia? That is how the thinking ...

first strike against the Soviet Union. Khrushchev knew that the Soviet Union was, indeed, hope- lessly inferior in nuclear missi ...

military advice was for getting on with the job and striking at Cuba; the military were chafing at the bit. Perhaps in the end t ...

they had been lying was true. The missile threat appeared real enough. No wonder the American people felt threatened when maps a ...

could any longer be sent to observe what was going on if the pilots’ lives were thereby exposed to danger. ‘We are now in an ent ...

Union and the US formally setting out what had been agreed, but both countries have, for the last three decades, acted as if the ...

and bombers close to the US would have been seen as a Soviet advance into the Western hemi- sphere and would have supported Khru ...

missiles to deliver them. When Prime Minister Harold Macmillan and Kennedy met at Nassau in the Bahamas in December 1962, the An ...

surviving head of state. The majority of the Cuban people have known no other leader; a kind of national monument in the new cen ...

The 1960s were one of the most turbulent decades in American history. The US fought an unwinnable war in Vietnam thousands of mi ...

and declared that his politics were ‘to change what we can, to better what we can.. .’. This meant rec- onciling reformers and t ...

serious handicap to America’s claims to lead the free world in newly independent Africa and else- where. ‘Whites only’ signs cou ...

supported by whites attempted to travel through the Southern states by bus. These Freedom Riders, as they came to be called, man ...

them from exercising their voting rights but by a whole range of discriminatory practices. Unemployment among black people was t ...

especially of teenagers. By the end of the 1970s one in three African Americans had incomes below the poverty line, and the posi ...

the need to increase taxation, which was politically unpopular. In the course of 1966 opinion polls showed that support for him ...

followed: in March 1965 US marines were sent to defend the US airbases; before long they came to be used not only in defence but ...

architects of the military response, had lost faith in the prospect of victory and on 1 March 1968 was replaced as secretary of ...

First and foremost it was ignorance, a failure to understand the true nature of the conflict in Vietnam, reducing it to the simp ...

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