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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...

means of murder, war and starvation (Kurth, 1995). Disaster after disaster followed one upon another through the middle nineteen ...

rationalized by President Theodore Roosevelt on the grounds that the U.S. had an "obligations to intervene elsewhere in the Wester...

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

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

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

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

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...

"The French had a certain kind of openness and warmth that they exhibited towards minorities that was just unexplainable. You woul...

North Africa - Operation TORCH: TORCH represents the first combined Allied action of the war, when British and American troops lan...

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" (...

(National Association of Japanese Canadians, 2002). During World War II, the War Measures Act allowed the Canadian Cabinet to expe...

In addition, it was...

writes that he was a particularly important source during the Cuban missile crisis. Ultimately, however, Penkovsky became more id...

He wanted to get the country moving again in terms of the economy and in other ways as well (Past Presidents: John F. Kennedy, 20...

onto the editorial boards of intellectually-oriented newspapers.6 Grose tells of how American intelligence agencies recruited Alb...

a time of despair and poverty. Some nations were already at war. Japan had launched a full attack against Manchuria in 1931 (Espos...

that the Russians "made very serious mistakes" (Booth 37). In an attempt to avert a secret attack, President Kennedy ordered Prem...

late 1830s, more than two-thirds of the working class population was literate (West, 2002). In an attempt to address the educatio...

are vastly different than those pertaining to the First World War, in that it was "almost certainly the largest [catastrophe] in h...

interested in becoming involved in WWII. We felt that the concerns were not related to us and we wanted nothing to do with it. We ...

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

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...

of postwar survival -- that a person who learns a trade and can take care of himself is not only an asset to his own family but to...

slow process of the building up of defences between the ever expanding Eastern block and the strong alliance of the Western countr...

as the "Angel of Mercy" during the late 19th century; the "Gal Friday" during the 1920s and the "Heroine" during World War II (Bro...

was putting to death. So then, in defining the Aryans he must also define those that were not acceptable. This is where his di...

and social forces in Europe. The European Union is more actively supported it is found, by the more affluent and economically sou...

policy and the position of the British government. Britain was trying to assert itself as a world power during those decades and t...

had fulfilled his 1980 campaign pledge to restore "the great, confident roar of American progress and growth and optimism" (Past P...