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NSC 68's Effects

1950 (Gaddis, 1982). What is the NSC-68 exactly? It seems that this report would outline national security strategy during a time...

Terrorism and a 'New Cold War'

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...

War Deterrence

of deterrence is often confused, as Jaime Garcia Covarrubias notes. Many believe deterrence means wiping all weapons off the plane...

3 Predictions Regarding the World After the Cold War

stimulating innovation and organizing research. However, Fukuyama also acknowledges that scientific progress does not directly exp...

The Vietnam War and the Attitudes That Drove the Conflict

Carl Strikwerda suggests that the globalization debate has great implications when looking at the United States (Grainge, 2001). ...

Cold World Impacts Documented in Underworld by Don Delillo

mind is obviously occupied with more important matters than baseball yet the stadium is coming unseated all around him and indeed,...

Immoral Actions and Henry Kissinger

there has been real "tension between Americas much-vaulted ethical and legal principles and its practical policy interests" (2000,...

The Cold War as Compared with the Conflict in Iran

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...

Causes and Effects of the Cold War

and property and was on the brink of bankruptcy. Only the United States and Soviet Union remained relatively intact. These count...

Post Cold War Future World Visions

well as the permanent deployment of many American troops bases and garrisons abroad were involved (1996). The U.S. military leade...

Events of the 20th Century

democracies, did not want communism to spread throughout Europe. Both superpowers possessed nuclear weapons and both had the power...

What Caused World War Two?

The writer argues that there are at least two schools of thought about what caused World War II: one that it was caused by World W...

The Two-Part War

rhetoric; this is the charismatic leader theory (A summary of the causes of World War II). The mob mentality theory is supported b...

The Years Leading Up To World War I

The years leading up to Word War I were full of clues...

The Impacts of World War I and World War II on American Society

I resulted from a variety of causes. The most prominent of these was the rise of nationalism. People of common geographic origin...

Interview/Living through World War II

out. You didnt know what the future might bring, or if they would survive. "Did you get married during the war?" I asked. "No, ...

All Quiet on the Western Front & Iraq

by the reality of war. Their psyches have been reduced to the common denominator that is dictated by whatever has to be done in or...

Political Questions Pertaining to Asia

Democracy, say Communist opposition, is necessary for China to modernize, inasmuch as the fundamental essence of modernization is ...

Armor Development

broke down and even when they were working, "were not capable of performing on a real battlefield" (Tank history, 2004). French ...

Orwell/1984 Overview

and the public. Party slogans exemplify doublethink, as they proclaim that war is really peace, freedom is really slavery, etc. Wh...

Central European Politics from 1910 to 1939 and Modernist Art

of art. Europes turbulent, social and political changes offered (and still offer) suitable conditions for artistic temperament to ...

Factors Leading to the First World War

In six pages this paper discusses the factors that led to the First World War, the U.S. involvement, and how these issues would al...

World War II Film The Best Years of Our Lives

three-time Pulitzer Prize winner. William Wyler was chosen as director, and an award-winning cast was assembled. It should be no...

How the First World War Set the Global Stage for the Second World War

A treaty with Austria was signed on Sept. 10, 1919, at St-Germain. Treaties were signed with Bulgaria at Neuilly Nov. 27, 1919, an...

Germany's Military and Prussian Militarism

In five pages this report examines Germany's military in World War I and World War II and considers the role played by Prussian mi...

Giving Orders in World War I

Four of the most influential senior commanders in World War I were Colonel-General Helmuth von Moltke of Germany, General Philippe...

The Impact of the Two World Wars on the U.S. Economy, Race, Gender, and Civil Liberties Issues

Lafore. In this text, Lafore gives his interpretation as to the causes of World War I. In this tome, Lafore gives the reader a v...

Comparing World Wars in Two Works

of a generation. This may not have been The Greatest Generation written about by Tom Brokaw, but one gets a sense that the men and...

World War I, Fascism, Nazism, and the Causes of World War II

Program; to be sure, traits such as intolerance and racism do not merely appear in ones life but rather have to be acquired. It i...