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world has, in fact, led to greater, not lesser, influence of religious leaders (Shah and Toft, 2006). The authors trace this over ...

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...

rationalized by President Theodore Roosevelt on the grounds that the U.S. had an "obligations to intervene elsewhere in the Wester...

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...

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

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

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

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 ...

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

War; shortly thereafter, representatives of the Allied powers met in Europe for the Potsdam Conference, where territories were div...

US relations with Middle Eastern countries have changed substantially over time. In the years following World War II the Eisenhow...

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

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...

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

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...

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...

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

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...

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 ...

served to be a platform for fundamentalist interpretation with regard to religious scriptures. This reawakening, according to the...