The Big Stick Policy is a reference to US President Theodore Roosevelts (1858 - 1919) style of resolving diplomatic conflicts. In a speech that took place in 1901, during a fair in Minnesota, the president used an African proverb that says:with smooth speech and a big club, you go far . This was t
Count to 100 before you say or do something It is advice that we have all received at some point and, furthermore, it is very sensible. From the end result, it seems that the Russians are faithful followers of this reflection. The 37 minutes that saved the world are divided into two sequences : 2
The so-called Missile Crisis in Cuba was a conflict between the United States, the Soviet Union and Cuba in October 1962, generated as a result of the discovery by the United States of Soviet nuclear missile bases in Cuban territory. For 4 days, Kennedy secretly met with his advisers to make a decis
On December 21, 1968, he took off from the John F. Kennedy Space Center at Cape Canaveral the Apollo 8 , the first manned mission to leave Earth orbit, reach and orbit the Moon (without landing on it), and finally return to Earth. The astronauts Frank Borman , James Lovell and Bill Anders they would