YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :Cold War in its Early Days
Essays 211 - 240
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...
In addition, it was...
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...
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" (...
writes that he was a particularly important source during the Cuban missile crisis. Ultimately, however, Penkovsky became more id...
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...
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...
for this type of research, but in explaining Lefflers work, Trachtenberg has gone into substantial detail about Trumans policies, ...
served to be a platform for fundamentalist interpretation with regard to religious scriptures. This reawakening, according to the...
cope within a new geopolitical global environment. We have seen a pulling back of support in numerous arenas. One of the events ...
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...
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...
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....
which, in reality, should have been their own responsibility. They viewed the USSR as their greatest threat and the U.S. as the s...
offered a multitude of incentives to the smaller nations of the world to team up with them. Some of these incentives were positiv...
Soviet infrastructure was weak. However, they believed wholeheartedly in Marxist theory and the inevitability of Communism, which ...
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...
enough tinder on the firebox to light a conflagration. During the early days of the war, American policy was focused on co...
all-hearing media leech that hovers over some of the most vital - yet dangerous - decision-making processes, broadcasting to the w...
5,000 people a year, but it resulted in an influx of immigrants. According to Don Barnett, the annual average for refugee immigrat...
Hidemi Suganamis "Narratives of War Origins and Endings: A Note On The End Of the Cold War in Millennium" explores the causative f...
that was more accommodating to the US. At its height, the congress for Cultural Freedom had offices in 35 countries, which frequen...