YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :Cold War Origins and its Cultural Implications
Essays 211 - 240
A bomb could be launched and hot another country with no need for any military personal to step on foreign soil. The United Stat...
had been "brainwashed" during their captivity in Korea (Tibbets, 1997). In fact, brainwashing became "the ultimate Cold War fear"...
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...
principles were rationalized due to the assumptions made about the nature of the Cold War and, also, literature suggests that thes...
onto the editorial boards of intellectually-oriented newspapers.6 Grose tells of how American intelligence agencies recruited Alb...
to us that, for a 10-year-old, the world continues to hold great promise. In the meantime, no one ever said growing up was easy" (...
In addition, it was...
writes that he was a particularly important source during the Cuban missile crisis. Ultimately, however, Penkovsky became more id...
policy and the position of the British government. Britain was trying to assert itself as a world power during those decades and t...
rationalized by President Theodore Roosevelt on the grounds that the U.S. had an "obligations to intervene elsewhere in the Wester...
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...
would be sent to war in just a few years, underscores the awful waste of youth, of life, of promise. The final stanza, in particu...
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...
for this type of research, but in explaining Lefflers work, Trachtenberg has gone into substantial detail about Trumans policies, ...
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 west, but this did not compensate for the difficulties, which included increasing unemployment, a lack of internal capital for...
Introduction The cold War was an incredibly volatile time in the world when the Soviet Union and the United States stood at a rel...
Post-Cold War U.S./Turkey Relations Turkey and the United States had a close cooperation during the Cold War. They were allied ag...
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 ...
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...
War II comes to an end when the United States uses nuclear weapons to force the unconditional surrender of Japan. The magnitude of...
War that followed seemed like fighting through one nightmare only to wind up in the middle of another one, only the second one las...
military engaged in a deadly stand-off against the Soviet Union, with both sides poised to destroy the other. The insane doctrine ...