YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :The Cold War
Essays 91 - 120
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...
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...
The way the United States relates with other nations has changed dramatically over our history. These changes have been particula...
the conflict in Iran is not over, the Cold War is, and when looking back from a twenty-first century perspective, the U.S. looks a...
cold war is mostly about the U.S. and Russia and the dangerous political game played at the time. Both nations had nuclear power (...
and property and was on the brink of bankruptcy. Only the United States and Soviet Union remained relatively intact. These count...
neighbor of the US, "one of the two superpowers defining the post-war world," the Canadian government chose to move "closer to the...
as necessary and correct (Crockatt, 1995). However, the "second wave" of historians, writing perhaps 20 years later, and informed ...
world has, in fact, led to greater, not lesser, influence of religious leaders (Shah and Toft, 2006). The authors trace this over ...
be issued an invitation" (Krahmann, Terriff and Webber, 2001). Despite the opposition, the U.S. position won the day (Krahmann, Te...
work essentially takes the reader through many eras as it relates to what was going on in the nation (lynchings etc.) and in polit...
that agreement. The Conference at Yalta was the last meeting the United States, Great Britain and Russia would have under...
be desired from the Russian perspective. At the Teheran Conference Stalin was indifferent to the division of Germany into separa...
Conclusion Introduction When the United States dropped the atomic bomb on Japan in August, 1945, it brought a swift end to the S...
the Cold War. Another author, Professor Gerhard Rempel, approaches the issue from a different perspective in terms of discussin...
stimulating innovation and organizing research. However, Fukuyama also acknowledges that scientific progress does not directly exp...
NATO. From the US perspective, they were merely protecting a weakened Europe from Soviet aggression. The viewpoint propelled the U...
Magazine, 2004). Furthermore, by the end of the war, American and British intelligence were involved (along with the Vatican) in r...
official reports which conclude that two of its MI6 officers had actually been involved with the passing of fake documentation to ...
that something was being done, and they were actually given (leaked) disinformation so that it would seem that there were existing...
Russian and U.S. Intelligence alike were characterized by two distinct components. These were technology and people. Sometimes i...
creation of the United Nations (Wannall 5). Harry Dexter White had been Assistant Secretary of the Treasury, and was responsible ...
A bomb could be launched and hot another country with no need for any military personal to step on foreign soil. The United Stat...
but a few."2 On the home front, during World War I, it was considered imperative to ensure that a system of "elite decision-making...
had been "brainwashed" during their captivity in Korea (Tibbets, 1997). In fact, brainwashing became "the ultimate Cold War fear"...
means of murder, war and starvation (Kurth, 1995). Disaster after disaster followed one upon another through the middle nineteen ...
of petroleum for the United States and its European allies" and also to "prevent or minimize Soviet involvement in the region" (Ge...
rationalized by President Theodore Roosevelt on the grounds that the U.S. had an "obligations to intervene elsewhere in the Wester...