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Sputnik Shock

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...

Cold War Hysteria and 'Casualties' Julius and Ethel Rosenberg

creation of the United Nations (Wannall 5). Harry Dexter White had been Assistant Secretary of the Treasury, and was responsible ...

Film as Nightmare '28 Days Later'

course, 28 days later, when a bicycle courier named Jim (Cillian Murphy) awakens from a coma and finds himself in an abandoned hos...

Was the Cold War Caused by Nuclear Weapons?

A bomb could be launched and hot another country with no need for any military personal to step on foreign soil. The United Stat...

Faulty Basis for the Cold War

had been "brainwashed" during their captivity in Korea (Tibbets, 1997). In fact, brainwashing became "the ultimate Cold War fear"...

The Significance of the Space Race

important part of scientific and political history and has a great deal of significance. Yet, in delving into the history of space...

President Ronald Reagan and the Strategic Defense Initiative

initiative depended on the use of not just ground-based systems but also space-based systems for the protection of our national ho...

Secularism, Cold War And Germany's Reunification

world has, in fact, led to greater, not lesser, influence of religious leaders (Shah and Toft, 2006). The authors trace this over ...

The Cold War and Its Significance

War that followed seemed like fighting through one nightmare only to wind up in the middle of another one, only the second one las...

Rice and Kings and All That Jazz

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...

After the Cold War, What’s a Soldier to Do

military engaged in a deadly stand-off against the Soviet Union, with both sides poised to destroy the other. The insane doctrine ...

Film Analysis: On the Beach (1959)

Soviet Union were busy building up their nuclear arms arsenals, the specter of the nuclear holocaust hung over society and haunted...

Human Intelligence in the Cold War

as spy satellites are vital to intelligence gathering efforts, the best tool for making sense of human behavior remains the human ...

The Causal Origins of the Hippie Movement

up at the time. As expressed in the infamous Port Huron Statement by Students for a Democratic Society (1962), the fear-mongering ...

Failed Covert Operations In Evan Thomas's "The Very Best Men"

also the ongoing breakdown between Cuba and the United States.3 Twelve hundred American-trained Cuban exiles had visions of viole...

American Post-Cold War Relations

Post-Cold War U.S./Turkey Relations Turkey and the United States had a close cooperation during the Cold War. They were allied ag...

Post Cold War Relations in the Middle East

US relations with Middle Eastern countries have changed substantially over time. In the years following World War II the Eisenhow...

World Instability in the Years Following the Cold War

The way the United States relates with other nations has changed dramatically over our history. These changes have been particula...

Japanese and German Economies in the Post Cold War Environment

the west, but this did not compensate for the difficulties, which included increasing unemployment, a lack of internal capital for...

Origins and Implications of the Cold War Era

War; shortly thereafter, representatives of the Allied powers met in Europe for the Potsdam Conference, where territories were div...

The Cold War - Beginnings

military might, and the entire nation, paralyzed (Weisberger, 1985). Among those who wanted Germany virtually destroyed was Stalin...

The Cold War and the Crisis in Asia

give the U.S.S.R. a presence in the region to counteract the American influence. The two nations also differed in their interest...

The Cold War

Introduction The cold War was an incredibly volatile time in the world when the Soviet Union and the United States stood at a rel...

Cold War Politics and Culture

War II comes to an end when the United States uses nuclear weapons to force the unconditional surrender of Japan. The magnitude of...

US Soft Power Strategies During the Cold War

This research paper investigates and describes the various ways in which the US utilized soft power strategies to counter the infl...

Cross Boarder Crime and Terrorism Following the Cold War

include criminal activity. Clutterbuck (1990) argues that the legitimate trading patterns resulting from increased liberalizatio...

Communism and US Military Responses

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...

On Our Own

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...

Latin America and Its Dark History

This paper considers the impact of the Cold War in Latin America and the atrocities committed in the countries of Argentina and El...

Cold War and the 'Hot Spot' of Mexico

Mexico in an unfavorable light in the eyes of the world (Ferris A18). Following the incident at Tlatelolco, there was internation...