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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...
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, ...
cold war is mostly about the U.S. and Russia and the dangerous political game played at the time. Both nations had nuclear power (...
what was to come" (Furlong, 2003). Bruenning was a member of the "banned Proletarian Revolutionary Writers Union at the time, and ...
important part of scientific and political history and has a great deal of significance. Yet, in delving into the history of space...
principles were rationalized due to the assumptions made about the nature of the Cold War and, also, literature suggests that thes...
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"...
cope within a new geopolitical global environment. We have seen a pulling back of support in numerous arenas. One of the events ...
off in dividends for alliances with one side or another. These dividends often as not came in the form of nuclear and other extre...
served to be a platform for fundamentalist interpretation with regard to religious scriptures. This reawakening, according to the...
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" (...
policy and the position of the British government. Britain was trying to assert itself as a world power during those decades and t...
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...