YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :A Historical Overview of the Cold War
Essays 211 - 240
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" (...
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...
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...
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...
policy and the position of the British government. Britain was trying to assert itself as a world power during those decades and t...
onto the editorial boards of intellectually-oriented newspapers.6 Grose tells of how American intelligence agencies recruited Alb...
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...
Soviet infrastructure was weak. However, they believed wholeheartedly in Marxist theory and the inevitability of Communism, which ...
offered a multitude of incentives to the smaller nations of the world to team up with them. Some of these incentives were positiv...
been stolen and North Koreas invasion of South Korea (Muravchik, 1996). Worse still, all of this took place in accordance with the...
because he knew it would be so controversial, Kennan at first published this article anonymously. However, after Walter Lippmann, ...
principles were rationalized due to the assumptions made about the nature of the Cold War and, also, literature suggests that thes...
This stereotypical clash with womens new on-the-job expectations created a shift in the treatment they received when toiling at a ...
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...
would be sent to war in just a few years, underscores the awful waste of youth, of life, of promise. The final stanza, in particu...
was accepted as justification for intervention in Southeast Asia. The background to the American intervention shows how the Vietn...
how the balance of power shifted and adjusted to events and how the alliances were formed and within the framework that was to bec...
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...
had been "brainwashed" during their captivity in Korea (Tibbets, 1997). In fact, brainwashing became "the ultimate Cold War fear"...
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...