The 60's: A Comparative Analysis

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The world we living in today went through many changes from the Stone Age to now. Those changes are the result of human greed and thirst for power. As human we like to be in control, we like absolute power therefore we are ready to do whatever it takes to achieve that. If one looks back in the history, the most powerful countries or empires such as Egyptian empire and Roman Empire became very powerful through war to conquer. The same reason Adolf Hitler started world war two. Back in the days there were no nuclear weapons therefore only manpower was merely enough to start a war for your own and your people benefits. Today we have many countries with nuclear power and numerous terrible war machines that added to the misunderstanding between …show more content…
The world we living in today could have been different if the conflict between the United States and Cuba back in the 60’s was not solve through dialogue according to the U.S.- Cuba relations article “The darkest moment in the countries' relationship came on the morning of October 15, 1962 when U.S. spy planes discovered evidence that the Soviet Union was building missile bases in Cuba. President Kennedy learned of the threat the following morning, while still in pajamas, and for the next 12 days the U.S. and Russia were locked in a white-knuckled nuclear face-off — the Cuban Missile Crisis — that ended only when Nikita Khrushchev accepted Kennedy's secret proposal to remove U.S. missiles in Turkey in exchange for the de-arming of Cuba. The Soviet missiles were gone within six months, but it would take a long time for America to forgive the nation that allowed them to be placed so close to the American mainland” (Claire Suddath). The today if one follows the he or she would notice that the similar tension is between the United States and Russia, China, North Corea. “The North Korean government's main goal is survival - and direct conflict with the US would seriously jeopardise it. As BBC defense correspondent Jonathan Marcus notes, any North Korean attack against the US or its allies in the current context could quickly spiral into a wider war - and we have to assume the Kim Jong-un government is not suicidal”