YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :Comparing the Second World War and the Cold War
Essays 541 - 570
were in fact two peas in a pod or two halves of the same coin. In general, historians like to compartmentalize World Wars One and ...
which, in reality, should have been their own responsibility. They viewed the USSR as their greatest threat and the U.S. as the s...
NATO. From the US perspective, they were merely protecting a weakened Europe from Soviet aggression. The viewpoint propelled the U...
caused by rival ideologies of fascism and communism and liberalism, nor good great ideals vs. bad evil Hitler,nor any blueprint fo...
the sacrifices were necessary. While the events changed things sociologically as people lived quite differently than they were u...
hippos in the river that Schweitzer came up with the phrase "reverence for life," which he later asserted was his only message for...
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...
5,000 people a year, but it resulted in an influx of immigrants. According to Don Barnett, the annual average for refugee immigrat...
most of whom were U.S. citizens or legal permanent resident aliens. They were detained for up to 4 years, without due process of l...
"Nazis murder Austrian Chancellor Dollfuss...German President Hindenburg dies" and "Adolf Hitler becomes F?hrer of Germany" (The H...
In the eyes of propaganda, the American cultural commitment to individualism was transformed into overwhelming self-interest and a...
military engaged in a deadly stand-off against the Soviet Union, with both sides poised to destroy the other. The insane doctrine ...
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...
as spy satellites are vital to intelligence gathering efforts, the best tool for making sense of human behavior remains the human ...
military might, and the entire nation, paralyzed (Weisberger, 1985). Among those who wanted Germany virtually destroyed was Stalin...
Introduction The cold War was an incredibly volatile time in the world when the Soviet Union and the United States stood at a rel...
War II comes to an end when the United States uses nuclear weapons to force the unconditional surrender of Japan. The magnitude of...
US relations with Middle Eastern countries have changed substantially over time. In the years following World War II the Eisenhow...
War; shortly thereafter, representatives of the Allied powers met in Europe for the Potsdam Conference, where territories were div...
Post-Cold War U.S./Turkey Relations Turkey and the United States had a close cooperation during the Cold War. They were allied ag...
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...
said in hindsight. Consider that the average German citizen blamed Weimar personally for acquiescing to the contentions of the Tre...
because he knew it would be so controversial, Kennan at first published this article anonymously. However, after Walter Lippmann, ...
control practices and free contraception; the changing attitudes of women; and the availability of part-time work. After the war,...
The International Band for Reconstruction and Development would be formed as a consequence of the Bretton Woods System in 1945 (Wo...
and the largest immigration wave still lay ahead." This new immigration was to take place from 1900 to 1924 wherein "another 1.75 ...
several attacks that effectively took down three planes and it is thought that two others were destroyed as well (1998). The ene...