Essays 91 - 120
There was Pearl Harbor and there was the internment in the United States to boot. During the cold war days, there was a great deal...
also the ongoing breakdown between Cuba and the United States.3 Twelve hundred American-trained Cuban exiles had visions of viole...
onto the editorial boards of intellectually-oriented newspapers.6 Grose tells of how American intelligence agencies recruited Alb...
to us that, for a 10-year-old, the world continues to hold great promise. In the meantime, no one ever said growing up was easy" (...
In addition, it was...
writes that he was a particularly important source during the Cuban missile crisis. Ultimately, however, Penkovsky became more id...
or another, repeat itself. In his introduction the student can find information which alludes to this theory as LaFeber presents u...
also during this time in history where smaller nations were the targets of intense competition between the United States and the S...
nuclear proliferation had to be a reality. It was. But others have a different point of view. The origin of the term is Latin. P...
when the threat that caused their creation no longer exists. The Constructivists, in contrast, contend that alliances exist becau...
Russian Revolution was all for naught. Communism was a dismal failure and Russia is now a poor country while the U.S. is seen as t...
well as the permanent deployment of many American troops bases and garrisons abroad were involved (1996). The U.S. military leade...
off in dividends for alliances with one side or another. These dividends often as not came in the form of nuclear and other extre...
cope within a new geopolitical global environment. We have seen a pulling back of support in numerous arenas. One of the events ...
served to be a platform for fundamentalist interpretation with regard to religious scriptures. This reawakening, according to the...
means of murder, war and starvation (Kurth, 1995). Disaster after disaster followed one upon another through the middle nineteen ...
less than a month later with Sputnik II, in which a dog was successfully launched into orbit, it appeared as if the Soviet Union w...
rationalized by President Theodore Roosevelt on the grounds that the U.S. had an "obligations to intervene elsewhere in the Wester...
include criminal activity. Clutterbuck (1990) argues that the legitimate trading patterns resulting from increased liberalizatio...
other words, conflict has several specific social and cultural functions, especially in terms of the way that a nation defines its...
collective defense against one perceived threat. R?hle said that the architecture should be looked at "as a series of key politica...
British Prime Minister) in 1946 that required immediate attention. Proposing that atomic energy be placed under international con...
In fifteen pages this paper examines how the Cold War is depicted in such films including Fail Safe, North By Northwest, Dr. Stran...
authors practically since the beginning of the written word. These depictions have changed radically over time, however, in respo...
disjoined and cold not be seen as posing such a significant risk mean that there was time for a change. We can...
slow process of the building up of defences between the ever expanding Eastern block and the strong alliance of the Western countr...
policy and the position of the British government. Britain was trying to assert itself as a world power during those decades and t...
This paper considers the impact of the Cold War in Latin America and the atrocities committed in the countries of Argentina and El...
Cold War possessed many instigators from American paranoia to a lack of mutual cooperation to the outright compromise of foreign p...
because he knew it would be so controversial, Kennan at first published this article anonymously. However, after Walter Lippmann, ...