YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :Origins and Early Development of the Cold War
Essays 241 - 270
War that followed seemed like fighting through one nightmare only to wind up in the middle of another one, only the second one las...
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 ...
up at the time. As expressed in the infamous Port Huron Statement by Students for a Democratic Society (1962), the fear-mongering ...
military might, and the entire nation, paralyzed (Weisberger, 1985). Among those who wanted Germany virtually destroyed was Stalin...
War II comes to an end when the United States uses nuclear weapons to force the unconditional surrender of Japan. The magnitude of...
give the U.S.S.R. a presence in the region to counteract the American influence. The two nations also differed in their interest...
as spy satellites are vital to intelligence gathering efforts, the best tool for making sense of human behavior remains the human ...
Introduction The cold War was an incredibly volatile time in the world when the Soviet Union and the United States stood at a rel...
Soviet infrastructure was weak. However, they believed wholeheartedly in Marxist theory and the inevitability of Communism, which ...
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, ...
also the ongoing breakdown between Cuba and the United States.3 Twelve hundred American-trained Cuban exiles had visions of viole...
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...
off in dividends for alliances with one side or another. These dividends often as not came in the form of nuclear and other extre...
cope within a new geopolitical global environment. We have seen a pulling back of support in numerous arenas. One of the events ...
disjoined and cold not be seen as posing such a significant risk mean that there was time for a change. We can...
authors practically since the beginning of the written word. These depictions have changed radically over time, however, in respo...
slow process of the building up of defences between the ever expanding Eastern block and the strong alliance of the Western countr...
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...
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...
served to be a platform for fundamentalist interpretation with regard to religious scriptures. This reawakening, according to the...
for his death (Wells, 1931, 469). In effect, Caesar was consumed with one goal: to satisfy the desires and urges of Caesar. Well...
can see that clearly the rivers were used to transport goods and products across or through a great portion of early America. As t...