research paper suggestions?

[panicatthediscofan]

hello!

i have to write a research paper for my us history class

the topic has to relate to the US, during the 20th century, and must have some sort of international approach.

i have to come up with a question and then my paper should answer that question

this paper should be about 4000 words

i was thinking about something on the cuban missile crisis?

does anyone have a suggestion for a question about that crisis, or any other topic which i might find interesting?

thanks (:

[Red Powers]

I've got nothing on the Cuban Missile Crisis.

But what about during WWI when there is a sucessful effort to repress German culture and language. At the same time there is repression of the IWW and the Socialist Party. Are these connected? Were a lot of Germans socialists? I think they were.

[Tormented by Treachery]

With a progressive movement that peaked with socialist Eugene Debs getting over a million votes while in jail, two world wars, the start of the arms race, the cuban missile crisis, the space race, the dissolution of the USSR, and the terrorist acts of the 90's, I think you have your pick of the lot. :)

By the way, P!ATD are good.

[pandora]

I wrote a thesis on the Cuban Revolution--Cuban Missle Crisis, and subsequent Cuban Embargo or break down of U.S. and Cuban relations over nationalization of energy plants and U.S. sugar interests.

There is also the closed door U.N. meetings regarding agricultural warfare in spraying chemicals from planes on Cuba's fields.

The U.S.'s relations with the Castro adminstration began with a New York Times report during The Cuban Revolution, from the begining the U.S. State Department was confused about how to operate.

Look at the Kennedy adminstration as well and Dick Goodwin and other individuals who were on the decision making line when Cuba decided to relax tensions between itself and the U.S. only to find the door firmly shut.

At that point the old boy network that ran all U.S. decision making was more open about it's decisions, not having yet gone through the threats of the 60's and openly discriminated against Cuba as a small nation with the odasity to thumb it's nose at the U.S. there is a good story there.

Even more interesting is the U.S. State Department and Henry Kissenger's intrusions into the Allende adminstration in Chile over copper necessary for arms, and the putting in of the depot Pinchot, and subsequent reign of terror.

Or you could dust off the Iran-Contra affair which destroyed both the Iranian and Nicaraguan economy, and killed millions, the choice is yours.

[anomaly]

I once wrote a paper on the 'red scare' of the 1950s. If you look into that decade, you'll see that suburbanization was just beginning, and most Americans lived in very similar looking houses. Communist Party leaders were imprisoned (some just disappeared!), and many Communists were also imprisoned. It was the age of McCarthyism, under-the-desk nuclear bomb drills, and complete anti-Communist paranoia. It's all rather interesting.

[ChemicalBrother]

I've got a pretty good paper on the Russian Legal system and how it's rule of law was unable to compete with the protection the Russian Mafia was able to provide post 1991 as it relates to private property rights.