YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :Cold War Politics and Culture
Essays 211 - 240
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...
War; shortly thereafter, representatives of the Allied powers met in Europe for the Potsdam Conference, where territories were div...
give the U.S.S.R. a presence in the region to counteract the American influence. The two nations also differed in their interest...
Introduction The cold War was an incredibly volatile time in the world when the Soviet Union and the United States stood at a rel...
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...
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...
also the ongoing breakdown between Cuba and the United States.3 Twelve hundred American-trained Cuban exiles had visions of viole...
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 ...
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...
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...
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...
how the balance of power shifted and adjusted to events and how the alliances were formed and within the framework that was to bec...
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...
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...
of nobles, officials, merchants and peasants alike. Even more importantly Henry the Great cared about his people and his country....