When Kennedy ran for president in 1960, one of his key election issues was an alleged " missile gap ", with the Soviets leading.

When the Soviets launched Sputnik in 1957 he had to play catchup in the space race.

When Stalin claimed Latvia for the Soviet Union, Ribbentrop was forced to telephone Berlin for permission from Hitler to concede Latvia to the Soviets.

When the Soviets recaptured Lwów, Banach reestablished the University.

When Berlinguer finally got to the PCI's condemnation of any kind of " interference ", the rupture with the Soviets was complete ( nonetheless, the party still for some years received money from Moscow ).

When, in April 1961, the Soviets beat the U. S. with the first manned spaceflight, Kennedy tasked Johnson with coming up with a program that would prove world leadership.

When the Soviets arrived they in general took all German prisoners back to a Gulag in Soviet Union where life expectancy was about five years.

When a helicopter of troops sent to investigate doesn't return, Blake orders a full scale invasion of Everon, not knowing about the Soviets.

When Soviet soldiers, led by Colonel Guba, arrive, Troska is forced to make a decision: betraying the partisan, trying to negotiate with the Soviets or fighting off the Soviet soldiers and joining the resistance.

When Victor joins the resistance he is immediately forced to take command and fight the Soviets who attack their base and kill the resistance commander.

When the Soviets began construction on a new embassy in 1977, the FBI dug a tunnel beneath the Soviet embassy, right under their decoding room.

When the Soviets entered the Winter War, the SMK, KV and a third design, the T-100, were sent to be tested in combat conditions.

When the telegram to dismiss Kornilov arrived, he believed that Kerensky was acting under intense pressure from the Soviets and consequently the Bolsheviks, therefore he ordered the prior mentioned Third Cavalry Corps to move swiftly ( or swifter ) to Petrograd to put down what he assumed to be a Bolshevik up rising.

When the Soviets are told of this, they tell the Americans that Guardian has retaliated with a nuclear missile launch targeting Anderson Air Force Base in Texas.

When word got out in the media ( February, 1946 ) that Soviets operated a spy network in Canada in which Canadians gave classified information to the Soviet government it created a great stir.

When Scott fails to convince the president of his innocence, he begins to talk freely and launches into a debate with Lyman, arguing that approval of the treaty would weaken the U. S. and lead to an attack by the Soviets.

When this campaign was successful and the October Revolution occurred, the creation of the Congress of Soviets marked the beginning of a process by which the genuine workers ' control of the soviets was diminished and the decisions of the Bolshevik Party acquired the full authority of the State.

When the Soviets withdrew, Ismail Khan became the governor of the province, a position he retained until the Taliban took control of the province in 1995.

When Britain tried to add some of their own ( fearing that the provisions were there only to augment the Soviet air-defences ) they were opposed by the Soviets.

When Hitler departed, the Soviets were only some away from the airfield. Soldiers of the 1st SS Panzer Division near Kharkov, February 1943

When Blake received a transfer in 1955, the Soviets were free to " discover " the tunnel.

When the Soviet army advanced on Poland, nine days before the Soviets arrived, the SS had marched 60, 000 prisoners out of the camp.

When the Soviets arrived, Prague was already in a general state of confusion due to the Prague Uprising.

When the Soviet Union invaded Afghanistan in 1979, American policy makers worried that the Soviets were making a run for control of the Persian Gulf.

When Kennedy's newly appointed NASA Administrator James E. Webb requested a 30 percent budget increase for his agency, Kennedy supported an acceleration of NASA's large booster program but deferred a decision on the broader issue.

When, in 882, Engelschalk II rebelled against the Margrave of Pannonia, Aribo, and ignited the so-called Wilhelminer War, Arnulf supported him and even accepted his and his brother's homage.

When Eadgils ' mound ( to the left in the photo ) was excavated in 1874, the finds supported Beowulf and the sagas.

When the revolt broke out, it was supported by intellectuals, the army, and almost all the ethnic minorities of the Empire, and forced Sultan Abdul Hamid II to re-adopt the long defunct Ottoman constitution of 1877, ushering in the Second Constitutional Era.

When former President Kolingba attempted a coup d ’ état in 2001 ( which was, according to Patassé, supported by France ), the Movement for the Liberation of Congo ( MLC ) of Jean-Pierre Bemba in DR Congo came to his rescue.

When, after the death of Emperor Otto I in 973, a struggle for the supremacy in Germany began, both Dobrawa's husband and brother Boleslav II the Pious, Duke of Bohemia, supported the same candidate for the German throne, Duke Henry II of Bavaria.

The argument that school vouchers increases quality and efficiencies in schools forced to compete is supported by studies such as " When Schools Compete: The Effects of Vouchers on Florida Public School Achievement " ( Manhattan Institute for Policy Research's, 2003 ), which concluded that public schools located near private schools that were eligible to accept voucher students made significantly more improvements than did similar schools not located near eligible private schools.

When Mary returned to Scotland in 1561 to take up the reins of power, the country had an established Protestant church and was run by a council of Protestant nobles supported by Elizabeth.

When the affair became public, Federalists accused him of supporting the French while Republicans such as Thomas Jefferson supported him.

When he was discharged in January 1934, he returned to Southwold to convalesce and, supported by his parents, never returned to teaching.

When the Brunswick Manifesto of July 1792 once more threatened the French population with Austrian ( Imperial ) and Prussian attacks, Louis XVI was suspected of treason and taken along with his family from the Tuileries Palace in August 1792 by insurgents supported by a new revolutionary Paris Commune.

When Edward died eight years later, Henry supported his brother Peter for the regency during Afonso V's minority, and in return received a confirmation of this levy.

They cultivated only those arts which could add splendor to the nation, to the neglect of those which supported it – They neglected Trade & substantial Manufacture ... but does it follow that a total revolution is necessary that because we have given ourselves up too much to the ornaments of life, we will now have none at all ". When attending a dinner at Holland House, Fox's niece Caroline was sat next to Reynolds and " burst out into glorification of the Revolution – and was grievously chilled and checked by her neighbour's cautious and unsympathetic tone ".

When the referendum was held in 1935, 90. 3 percent of voters supported becoming part of Germany, which was quickly approved by the League Council.

When Morocco supported the Algerian independence movement of the Emir Abd al-Qadir, it was heavily defeated by the French in 1844 and made to abandon its support.

When war came in 1941, the vast majority of Methodists strongly supported the national war effort, but there were also a few ( 673 ) conscientious objectors.

When a synod awarded jurisdiction to Maxentius, the Patriarch of Aquileia, Venerius appealed to Gregory, who supported him.

When electronic terminals ( smart and dumb ) began to be used, they were often designed to be interchangeable with teletypewriters, and so supported RS-232.

Indeed, such was the perceived threat of the Ottoman Empire under the reign of Suleiman that ambassador Busbecq warned of Europe's imminent conquest: " On Turks ' side are the resources of a mighty empire, strength unimpaired, habituation to victory, endurance of toil, unity, discipline, frugality and watchfulness ... Can we doubt what the result will be ?... When the Turks have settled with Persia, they will fly at our throats supported by the might of the whole East ; how unprepared we are I dare not say.

When the temperature and pressure in the core become sufficient to ignite helium fusion, a helium flash will occur if the core is largely supported by electron degeneracy pressure ( stars under 1. 4 solar mass ).

When relations were strained between the two, John VIII steadfastly supported Methodius ; but after his death ( December 882 ) the archbishop's position became insecure, and his need of support induced Goetz to accept the statement of the Vita ( xiii.

When World War I began in 1914, Roosevelt strongly supported the Allies and demanded a harsher policy against Germany, especially regarding submarine warfare.

When Louis the Pious died in 840, his eldest son, Lothair I, claimed overlordship over his brothers ' kingdoms and supported the claim of his nephew Pepin II as king of Aquitaine, a large province in western France.

When Pope Hadrian IV died in 1159, the divided cardinals elected two popes: Roland of Siena, who took the name of Alexander III, and Octavian of Rome who, though nominated by fewer cardinals, was supported by Frederick and assumed the name of Pope Victor IV.