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Essays 121 - 150
The way the United States relates with other nations has changed dramatically over our history. These changes have been particula...
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...
One of the more interesting roles women took on during the war was as volunteers in the war effort. For...
initiative depended on the use of not just ground-based systems but also space-based systems for the protection of our national ho...
world has, in fact, led to greater, not lesser, influence of religious leaders (Shah and Toft, 2006). The authors trace this over ...
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 ...
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...
There was Pearl Harbor and there was the internment in the United States to boot. During the cold war days, there was a great deal...
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...
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" (...
In addition, it was...
writes that he was a particularly important source during the Cuban missile crisis. Ultimately, however, Penkovsky became more id...
well as the permanent deployment of many American troops bases and garrisons abroad were involved (1996). The U.S. military leade...
was accepted as justification for intervention in Southeast Asia. The background to the American intervention shows how the Vietn...
for this type of research, but in explaining Lefflers work, Trachtenberg has gone into substantial detail about Trumans policies, ...
pursuing a d?tente "that would stabilize mutual deterrence and contain the costs of competition in regional affairs" (Herrmann and...
means of murder, war and starvation (Kurth, 1995). Disaster after disaster followed one upon another through the middle nineteen ...
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...
had been "brainwashed" during their captivity in Korea (Tibbets, 1997). In fact, brainwashing became "the ultimate Cold War fear"...
meddling, it further presents an improved picture of Russia. The article goes on to criticize the United States because it refuse...
Magazine, 2004). Furthermore, by the end of the war, American and British intelligence were involved (along with the Vatican) in r...
Stalin and subsequent leaders, going through many name changes, and ultimately becoming the KGB in 1954 (University of San Diego, ...
official reports which conclude that two of its MI6 officers had actually been involved with the passing of fake documentation to ...
that something was being done, and they were actually given (leaked) disinformation so that it would seem that there were existing...
Russian and U.S. Intelligence alike were characterized by two distinct components. These were technology and people. Sometimes i...
a time, Friedman states, world societies were shaped largely by tradition and political ideology, which is symbolized by the olive...