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Post Cold War Relations Between Russia and the United States

In ten pages this paper discusses the post Cold War relations between Russia and the US and the tensions that still remain. Ten s...

US Military's Spending Wastefulness

In eight pages this paper examines post Cold War waste by the US military with the focus being on government spending issues. Ten...

Nuclear Weapons Policy of the US

Iraq had amassed huge stock piles of deadly biological warfare agents which it had planned to use against the United States (Hacke...

US Pop Culture and the Star Wars Trilogy

a true sense of what is American pop culture, one needs only to venture into a childs bedroom. Since 1977, it is likely that ther...

United Nations And U.S. National Security Policy

the UN when seeking their approval to go into Iraq. For more than a decade, Iraq had refused to meet the mandates of the UN Securi...

Iraqi War and Its Impacts on the U.S. Economy

however, continue to argue that the economy will be boosted as a result of the war. The purpose of this paper is to analyze each ...

American Patriotism and Europeans

devastation wreaked on their homeland in those wars. Countless examples of this sort of cultural awareness are not going to be neg...

Containment Policy of George F. Kennan

because he knew it would be so controversial, Kennan at first published this article anonymously. However, after Walter Lippmann, ...

Richard Nixon and 1960s' Counterculture

bringing the country back into some semblance of order. It was these very movements that helped Nixons administration withdraw fro...

US Wartime Uses of Propaganda

using the press in this manner, some excellent examples remain which show what media savvy can make the difference. Consider that ...

Post World War and Cold War Economic and Political Impacts

(5). Therefore, when the wall dividing East and West Germany was finally torn down, it is clear why this was such a powerful symb...

US and the Iraq War

fear. With the terrorist attacks of September 11th, everything changed - literally. No longer can one simply walk through an air...

Relations Between Russia and the United States and the Continuing Effects of the Cold War

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...

Overview of the Pearl Harbor Bombing

to the bombing, however, we note that in the words of one author, following WWI "Japan grew angry with the U.S.A. because they wer...

Middle East Development and Democratization

of power and authoritarianism as it relates to the issues surrounding the Iraq war, a battle that looks toward setting a precedent...

The Spanish-American War and Its Aftermath

the Spanish-American War, which was publicly motivated by American sentiment to free Cuba from Spanish rule, sentiment grew in the...

Pre Pearl Harbor Second World War Debate in the United States

to become involved in this large, European action. In the early thirties, prior to 1941 when the U.S. was attacked, the European...

President Harry Truman's Decision to Bomb Hiroshima and Nagasaki

sections of Tokyo. By July of 1945, Japan was ready to surrender, but feared, because of Roosevelts insistence on unconditional su...

Enduring Legacy of Freedom

against the terrorism in their own nation. The United States with its superpower status sits in the position of setting many of th...

Pilots, Paratroopers and World War II

idea had a great deal of potential, the war ended before he ever really got to try it out (D-Day Introduction, 2002)....

Cultural and Political Views of the Vietnam War

ideological battle within. After the Geneva cease-fire agreement of 1954, Vietnam had been subdivided at the 17th Parallel into n...

Gulf War and Military Strategy

the United States, our interests, or our allies" (The Strategy). The National Security Objective - to promote peace and stability...

Cold War Intelligence and Russian Spy Oleg Penkovsky

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

United States, Harry S. Truman, and the Korean War

and Soviet Premier Josef Stalin, and everyone went home (The Korean War: Setting the Stage and Brief Overview, 2002). Roosevelts b...

Post Second World War Presidential Assessment

He wanted to get the country moving again in terms of the economy and in other ways as well (Past Presidents: John F. Kennedy, 20...

Peter Grose's Operation Rollback

onto the editorial boards of intellectually-oriented newspapers.6 Grose tells of how American intelligence agencies recruited Alb...

Second World War and Nursing

as the "Angel of Mercy" during the late 19th century; the "Gal Friday" during the 1920s and the "Heroine" during World War II (Bro...

1796 'Farewell Address' of President George Washington

of this model paper is to point out that there is no way to avoid foreign entanglements and the War of 1812 is the most likely exa...

Kennedy's Role in the Cuban Missile Crisis

verified in the CIAs own records.) At the last minute, Kennedy called off the air strikes but that message did not reach the more...

Americans on the Homefront and the Impact of the Second World War

interested in becoming involved in WWII. We felt that the concerns were not related to us and we wanted nothing to do with it. We ...