Nation Torn, A: Cuban Missile Crisis
In 1962 a U-2 spy aircraft discovers Russia is installing medium-range missiles with nuclear warheads in Cuba just 90 miles from the U. S. mainland. President Kennedy convenes the Executive Committee of the National Security Council, and after a wee...
Transcript: What really changed relations between the united states and The soviet union was the cuban missile crisis. [graham allison] khrushchev attempts to
Most Significant Events Covered
Television news correspondent, presidential advisor and university professor Marvin Kalb looks back over his years as a network news correspondent and talks about the most significant events and people that he covered. The Cuban Missile Crisis is fi...
Transcript: , how could you have believed that? It was so wrong. So vietnam. Third, for me, trying to cover nikita kruschev, The leader of the soviet union. He was an
The Power of the State
Philosopher John Searle argues that the power of the state is created by the fact that people are willing to accept it. He goes on to say that this is true with all of our social institutions. As an example, he mentions money, noting that if people ...
Transcript: science was That they just could not predict the fall of the soviet union, The collapse of the entire soviet empire. They couldn't predict it and they
U.S. Foreign Policy Through Changing Administrations
Television news correspondent, presidential advisor and university professor Marvin Kalb talks about the impact of changing administrations on American foreign policy. "I think it makes a big difference, because the President of the United States an...
Transcript: part of the world. But if you don't feel that africa's terribly important, Africa will be forgotten. If you don't feel that the soviet union is all That
Collapse of Peace, The: Marshall Plan, The
The Marshall Plan, initiated by the United States in 1948, assists in the economic reconstruction of Western Europe. The U.S. also offers help to Soviets in the East Block, not really thinking they will accept and they don't. Subtext to the Marshall...
Transcript: ... " And the subtext was so they didn't become communist And fall prey to the soviet union, " ...WE WILL PROVIDE THE FUNDS ."" ?? And in the end, the united
Nation Torn, A: History of the Vietnam Conflict
Lyndon Johnson enters the presidency with even less experience in international affairs than John F. Kennedy. In his initial days in office, the country's foreign policy is dominated by the bitter civil war in Vietnam. At first it appears to be litt...
Transcript: the korean conflict-- is already underway. vietnam is added to the list. [brigham] and there china And the soviet union put tremendous pressure on the
Fallout: Divided Peninsula, The
Korea is divided after World War II, with the USSR occupying the northern part of the country, the U. S. the South. In June of 1950 North Koreans attack across the 38th parallel trying to conquer South Korea and unify the country. There is concern t...
Transcript: [ narrator ] in 1950 a new and dangerous situation shatters the uneasy peace... Korea was divided after the second world war. The soviet union
Collapse of Peace, The: Truman Gets Tough with Soviets Leading to Potsdam
its bargain at Yalta, but in reality there is little the U.S. can do to compel the Soviet Union to live up to its agreements. Russian forces now occupy
Transcript: do to compel the soviet union to abide by its agreements. russian forces by now occupy poland and much of central and eastern europe. germany is
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
deportation from the Soviet Union in 1974. In this gripping program, key figures such as Andrei Vassilievsky, the editor of Novy Mir; Nikita Struve, the first
Enron unraveled
Presentation Abstract: On the surface, Enron conjures up Churchill's description of the Soviet Union "a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma