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Essays 181 - 210
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...
give the U.S.S.R. a presence in the region to counteract the American influence. The two nations also differed in their interest...
also the ongoing breakdown between Cuba and the United States.3 Twelve hundred American-trained Cuban exiles had visions of viole...
War that followed seemed like fighting through one nightmare only to wind up in the middle of another one, only the second one las...
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 ...
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 ...
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...
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...
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...
onto the editorial boards of intellectually-oriented newspapers.6 Grose tells of how American intelligence agencies recruited Alb...
writes that he was a particularly important source during the Cuban missile crisis. Ultimately, however, Penkovsky became more id...
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...
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...
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...
a decidedly different climate in relation to justice. The end of the Classical period brought with it Alexanders death, as well a...
British Prime Minister) in 1946 that required immediate attention. Proposing that atomic energy be placed under international con...
collective defense against one perceived threat. R?hle said that the architecture should be looked at "as a series of key politica...