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et al, 2000). And the settlers brought diseases with them against which the Indians had no defense, wiping them out in large numbe...

principles were rationalized due to the assumptions made about the nature of the Cold War and, also, literature suggests that thes...

important part of scientific and political history and has a great deal of significance. Yet, in delving into the history of space...

what was to come" (Furlong, 2003). Bruenning was a member of the "banned Proletarian Revolutionary Writers Union at the time, and ...

cold war is mostly about the U.S. and Russia and the dangerous political game played at the time. Both nations had nuclear power (...

This stereotypical clash with womens new on-the-job expectations created a shift in the treatment they received when toiling at a ...

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...

for this type of research, but in explaining Lefflers work, Trachtenberg has gone into substantial detail about Trumans policies, ...

was accepted as justification for intervention in Southeast Asia. The background to the American intervention shows how the Vietn...

pursuing a d?tente "that would stabilize mutual deterrence and contain the costs of competition in regional affairs" (Herrmann and...

War II comes to an end when the United States uses nuclear weapons to force the unconditional surrender of Japan. The magnitude of...

The way the United States relates with other nations has changed dramatically over our history. These changes have been particula...

as spy satellites are vital to intelligence gathering efforts, the best tool for making sense of human behavior remains the human ...

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...

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...

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

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

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

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

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 ...

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...

In addition, it was...

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

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 ...