Innledning
In this task, I am going to tell about the movie “Thirteen days”, the action, the main characters and facts about the cold war.
When the Second World War was over, The Soviet Union, France, the United Kingdom and the United States of America occupied the destroyed Germany.
The United States of America and the Soviet Union looked sceptical at each other, and they was afraid the others ideology should prevail. The period this power struggle lasted was called “The Cold War.”
“The Cold War” was spread to the whole world, and problems arose in different countries, like Cuba, Korea, Vietnam and Afghanistan. The movie “Thirteen days” is about the conflict in Cuba, which is called the Cuban Missile Crises.
Most of the movie is filmed in the White House, where the president, John F. Kennedy, and his stab, tried to fix and get the Soviet missiles out of Cuba, but avoid an act of war.
Utdrag
The President of the United States, John F. Kennedy, was not the biggest fan of the interest the Soviet Union had, so close to the United States borders. Troops from The US invaded Cuba in 1961.
The action was called “Bay of Pigs.” The invasion failed, and Castro got a closer band with the Soviet. The United States politics made closer alliances between the communist countries.
The year after, US figured out that it was Soviet nuclear missiles in Cuba. Many US politicians wanted to provoke a war, but JFK chose to set an ultimatum. He demanded that the Soviet should remove the missiles, and if they didn’t listened, he would go to war.
United States of America discovered Soviet freighters with missiles on the way to Cuba. US demanded the cargo ships to turn around, and if they did not, the country would attack the Soviet Union.
While a whole world kept their mouth shoot, the two superpowers made secret negotiations. One nuclear war was close, and many were afraid a third World War should arrive, but in the last moment, the soviet sourced the nuclear missiles.
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