YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :American Tragedy Vietnam in the Cold War Context
Essays 211 - 240
Soviet Union were busy building up their nuclear arms arsenals, the specter of the nuclear holocaust hung over society and haunted...
as spy satellites are vital to intelligence gathering efforts, the best tool for making sense of human behavior remains the human ...
up at the time. As expressed in the infamous Port Huron Statement by Students for a Democratic Society (1962), the fear-mongering ...
military might, and the entire nation, paralyzed (Weisberger, 1985). Among those who wanted Germany virtually destroyed was Stalin...
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...
because he knew it would be so controversial, Kennan at first published this article anonymously. However, after Walter Lippmann, ...
confrontation known as the Cold War was aided and abetted by the American tendency to be suspicious of power, even when it wielded...
Cold War possessed many instigators from American paranoia to a lack of mutual cooperation to the outright compromise of foreign p...
served to be a platform for fundamentalist interpretation with regard to religious scriptures. This reawakening, according to the...
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 ...
had been "brainwashed" during their captivity in Korea (Tibbets, 1997). In fact, brainwashing became "the ultimate Cold War fear"...
meddling, it further presents an improved picture of Russia. The article goes on to criticize the United States because it refuse...
Russian and U.S. Intelligence alike were characterized by two distinct components. These were technology and people. Sometimes i...
Magazine, 2004). Furthermore, by the end of the war, American and British intelligence were involved (along with the Vatican) in r...
Stalin and subsequent leaders, going through many name changes, and ultimately becoming the KGB in 1954 (University of San Diego, ...
official reports which conclude that two of its MI6 officers had actually been involved with the passing of fake documentation to ...
that something was being done, and they were actually given (leaked) disinformation so that it would seem that there were existing...
creation of the United Nations (Wannall 5). Harry Dexter White had been Assistant Secretary of the Treasury, and was responsible ...
course, 28 days later, when a bicycle courier named Jim (Cillian Murphy) awakens from a coma and finds himself in an abandoned hos...
A bomb could be launched and hot another country with no need for any military personal to step on foreign soil. The United Stat...
offered a multitude of incentives to the smaller nations of the world to team up with them. Some of these incentives were positiv...
of nobles, officials, merchants and peasants alike. Even more importantly Henry the Great cared about his people and his country....
Soviet infrastructure was weak. However, they believed wholeheartedly in Marxist theory and the inevitability of Communism, which ...
which, in reality, should have been their own responsibility. They viewed the USSR as their greatest threat and the U.S. as the s...
U.S. has largely led while European representatives followed passively. By the fall of 1944 during World War II, Allied sol...
The expression "cold war" was used for the first time by a journalist who wrote a speech for financier Bernard Baruch in 1947 (Saf...
all-hearing media leech that hovers over some of the most vital - yet dangerous - decision-making processes, broadcasting to the w...
hippos in the river that Schweitzer came up with the phrase "reverence for life," which he later asserted was his only message for...