Thursday, February 9, 2012

I'm back :)

So I have access to my account again which is fantastic!
Anyway, I want to talk a little bit about the causation of the Cuban missile crisis in regards to the contrasting viewpoints held by the communists(Cuba and the USSR) and the Americans. It's obvious that even while the crisis was taking place there were different opinions on who and what caused the crisis.So since then we can see versions of history of which consist a similar set of events yet such different reasoning behind them, it seems almost typical that Americans would state Russian and Cuban aggression is a cause to the crisis in the form of offensive weapons so close to american shores but on the other hand Russian history would echo that it came to the aid and protection of the small independent nation of Cuba after the bay of pigs incident and attempted to create a more equal nuclear weapons climate. Ect ect so differences in causation of event caused by nationalistic perspective. Russian says " American aggression toward Cuba" while America says " communist aggression toward America" or something to that effect.

1 comment:

  1. This sounds like a good idea. I can imagine there would be lots of differing interpretations which would attain a sustained and analytical essay. Good choice! Don't get too caught up in the slight differences though, keep strict about what you use and it will be good :)

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