YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :How And Why The Cold War Began
Essays 91 - 120
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...
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...
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...
pursuing a d?tente "that would stabilize mutual deterrence and contain the costs of competition in regional affairs" (Herrmann and...
rationalized by President Theodore Roosevelt on the grounds that the U.S. had an "obligations to intervene elsewhere in the Wester...
what was to come" (Furlong, 2003). Bruenning was a member of the "banned Proletarian Revolutionary Writers Union at the time, and ...
cold war is mostly about the U.S. and Russia and the dangerous political game played at the time. Both nations had nuclear power (...
principles were rationalized due to the assumptions made about the nature of the Cold War and, also, literature suggests that thes...
important part of scientific and political history and has a great deal of significance. Yet, in delving into the history of space...
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...
Iwo Jima. The last straw would be the bomb that was let loose at Hiroshima. It was a devastating blow. A lesser, but just as detri...
Soviet infrastructure was weak. However, they believed wholeheartedly in Marxist theory and the inevitability of Communism, which ...
confrontation known as the Cold War was aided and abetted by the American tendency to be suspicious of power, even when it wielded...
because he knew it would be so controversial, Kennan at first published this article anonymously. However, after Walter Lippmann, ...
Cold War possessed many instigators from American paranoia to a lack of mutual cooperation to the outright compromise of foreign p...
authors practically since the beginning of the written word. These depictions have changed radically over time, however, in respo...
disjoined and cold not be seen as posing such a significant risk mean that there was time for a change. We can...
the vision to build a railroad across the Sierra Nevada mountains in California, and then to continue the railroad across the Unit...
slow process of the building up of defences between the ever expanding Eastern block and the strong alliance of the Western countr...
policy and the position of the British government. Britain was trying to assert itself as a world power during those decades and t...
served to be a platform for fundamentalist interpretation with regard to religious scriptures. This reawakening, according to the...
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 ...
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...