Essays 61 - 90
(5). Therefore, when the wall dividing East and West Germany was finally torn down, it is clear why this was such a powerful symb...
argued that insecurity has been "one fundamental factor affecting Soviet policy" (Diplomatic Telegrams) since the beginnings of th...
first stage of escalation sees the parties to the conflict shift from the use of light strategies towards heavy tactics. Light tac...
This essay examines the question of who is to blame for the failure of the marriage between Emma and Charles Bovary. The writer pr...
The very idea of guarding an industry to "help" it survive seems - superficially at least - to be a reasonable approach to the pre...
two illustrations as to whether they were the same thing or different. The patient was able to detect a finger that was wiggling ...
evidence". Agent orange has gained the most notoriety in its use as a defoliant in the Vietnam War. It has been the...
In ten pages this paper discusses how the sabotaging of the military by American politics is partly to blame in the US loss of the...
for conflict at the very least; some even blame Germany for "planning and waging a deliberate war of aggression."4 Sheffield expl...
The writer discusses the efforts made by the U.S. during the Cold War to win other nations to its view. The methods discussed incl...
military engaged in a deadly stand-off against the Soviet Union, with both sides poised to destroy the other. The insane doctrine ...
also the ongoing breakdown between Cuba and the United States.3 Twelve hundred American-trained Cuban exiles had visions of viole...
important part of scientific and political history and has a great deal of significance. Yet, in delving into the history of space...
what was to come" (Furlong, 2003). Bruenning was a member of the "banned Proletarian Revolutionary Writers Union at the time, and ...
cold war is mostly about the U.S. and Russia and the dangerous political game played at the time. Both nations had nuclear power (...
world has, in fact, led to greater, not lesser, influence of religious leaders (Shah and Toft, 2006). The authors trace this over ...
initiative depended on the use of not just ground-based systems but also space-based systems for the protection of our national ho...
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...
means of murder, war and starvation (Kurth, 1995). Disaster after disaster followed one upon another through the middle nineteen ...
pursuing a d?tente "that would stabilize mutual deterrence and contain the costs of competition in regional affairs" (Herrmann and...
rationalized by President Theodore Roosevelt on the grounds that the U.S. had an "obligations to intervene elsewhere in the Wester...
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...
principles were rationalized due to the assumptions made about the nature of the Cold War and, also, literature suggests that thes...
for this type of research, but in explaining Lefflers work, Trachtenberg has gone into substantial detail about Trumans policies, ...
was accepted as justification for intervention in Southeast Asia. The background to the American intervention shows how the Vietn...
This stereotypical clash with womens new on-the-job expectations created a shift in the treatment they received when toiling at a ...
This essay offers a brief report on the first five chapters in a book entitled, On Our Own. America in the Sixties. It takes the r...
This research paper investigates and describes the various ways in which the US utilized soft power strategies to counter the infl...
In a paper of five pages, the writer looks at containment policies in the Cold War. The efforts of the US to contain communism are...
Post-Cold War U.S./Turkey Relations Turkey and the United States had a close cooperation during the Cold War. They were allied ag...