the Stagnation Period‚ there was no real hope for consistency: This meant that the soviet people had to continuously adapt to policies that the government set forth. Khrushchev‚ who came to power in 1953‚ gave a speech to the Twentieth Party Congress of the Communist Party that criticized the Stalin’s Cult of Personality. Khrushchev‚ wanting to reverse the affects that Stalin had branded on masses of the Soviet citizens‚ released millions of political prisoners from the Gulag labor camps. His thaw
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In 1961 The United States severed diplomatic relations with Cuba and was in the act of preparing for an invasion. A few advisors and other state departments assured President Kennedy that Fidel Castro was not a threat at all. President Kennedy did not agree and saw Fidel Castro as a mastermind. He believed that the taking down of Fidel Castro would show Russia‚ China‚ and fellow Americans that President Kennedy was serious about winning the Cold War and was willing to fight to prove so. Kennedy began
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the pinnacle of the Cold War. This crisis was a decisive factor in the United States’ (US) decision process of whether to engage in a nuclear war with the Soviet Union (USSR). However the essential fault of both state leaders (J. Kennedy and N. Khrushchev) which created the inevitable crisis was miscommunication. Today we recognise actions taken by both states during the crisis as consistent with a realist point of view. Realism holds great emphasise on the obstacles enforced by human nature and
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Case Exercise: Strategic Decision-Making in Crisis Situations Thirteen Days’ is a 2000 docudrama about the Cuba Missile Crisis of 1962. Based on the narration of the film‚ we think both the political model and the bounded rationality model are reflected in the strategic decision making (SDM) process of the US authorities. On one hand‚ the political model suggests that the SDM process is driven by conflicts among different groups of people engaged in the decision
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Khrushchev loosened the restrictions on art‚ literature and cinema - allowing‚ among others‚ the (very) critical novel Dr Zhivago to be published. He also did away with arbitrary state terror - lessening the excesses of Stalinism. He also continued the massive apartment building programme begun to house the people and to help alleviate the hardship caused by the war. For the religious‚ however‚ he undertook a massive clampdown on the church. People were required to register to attend‚ and church-going
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benefited from increased oil and gold prices. this meant that badly needed reforms became less important and so could be postponed. • Brezhnev restored central control over agricultural planning but retained the larger collective farms set up by Khrushchev. • He also increased the size of private plots. • Brezhnev believed that bigger kolkhozi would mean more efficient farming. • By the last 1970’s collective farms received 27% of all state investment. • 1980‚ gross agricultural output was 21%
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market share even as Coca- Cola’s market share was dropping. Another notable achievement in marketing history was the inroads Pepsi made into the Soviet market. Perhaps the biggest (indirect) Soviet endorser of the product was the Soviet Premier Nikita Kruschev‚ who was caught on camera drinking a Pepsi at the 1959 American National Exhibition in Moscow. A favorable relationship developed between the Soviet Union and the company‚ leading to a trade agreement in 1972 where Pepsi became the first
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DIPLOMA PROGRAMME Teacher Support Material History Internal Assessment k INTERNATIONAL BACCALAUREATE ORGANIZATION For first examinations in 2003 b Diploma Programme HISTORY Internal Assessment Teacher Support Material For first examinations in 2003 International Baccalaureate Organization Buenos Aires Cardiff Geneva New York Singapore Diploma Programme History Internal Assessment Teacher Support Material International Baccalaureate Organization‚ Geneva‚ CH-1218‚ Switzerland
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In the chapter four Cuban Missile Crisis: A Second Cut of the book “Essence of Decision by Allison and Zelikow‚ it’s the analyzation of what happen during the Cuban Missile Crisis to have knowledge of the government behavior. Allison analyzed the Cuban Missile crisis by categorizing them into three events: 1) The deployment of Soviet offensive missiles in Cuba; 2) The imposition of a US; and 3) the withdrawal of Soviet missiles from Cuba. In the first place‚ one the reasons why the Soviet Union
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Explain why relations changed between the USA and the USSR as a result of events in Cuba between 1959 and 1962 and how the Cuban missile Crisis affected relations between the USA and the USSR. The USA and the USSR never really got on after WW2 ended‚ it was always a competition to see who the greatest superpower was. The Cuban Missile Crisis was the nearest that both sides came to an actual nuclear war. The tensions were intense for both sides‚ for both USA and USSR could have started a war if
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