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Sudan's Continuing Civil War

schools. In fact, the name "Sudan" (Arabic for "black") is a reference to the black peoples who historically have inhabited the re...

Blue Sky Dream by David Beers

Club served by black-skinned mess men, gold wings, an elaborate and ready made construct of self-regard" (7). But when the circum...

Soviet Union's Uses of Propaganda

130) and used all the weapons of the modern dictatorship: surveillance, false arrests, show trials, hellish labor camps and summar...

Secularism, Cold War And Germany's Reunification

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

President Ronald Reagan and the Strategic Defense Initiative

initiative depended on the use of not just ground-based systems but also space-based systems for the protection of our national ho...

Failed Covert Operations In Evan Thomas's "The Very Best Men"

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

Rice and Kings and All That Jazz

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...

After the Cold War, What’s a Soldier to Do

military engaged in a deadly stand-off against the Soviet Union, with both sides poised to destroy the other. The insane doctrine ...

Film Analysis: On the Beach (1959)

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

The Causal Origins of the Hippie Movement

up at the time. As expressed in the infamous Port Huron Statement by Students for a Democratic Society (1962), the fear-mongering ...

The Cold War and Its Significance

War that followed seemed like fighting through one nightmare only to wind up in the middle of another one, only the second one las...

Human Intelligence in the Cold War

as spy satellites are vital to intelligence gathering efforts, the best tool for making sense of human behavior remains the human ...

The Cold War - Beginnings

military might, and the entire nation, paralyzed (Weisberger, 1985). Among those who wanted Germany virtually destroyed was Stalin...

Europe in the Middle East, an Analysis

The wishes of the Arabs themselves were acknowledged only half-heartedly, which makes this business of carving up sovereign nation...

The Cold War and the Crisis in Asia

give the U.S.S.R. a presence in the region to counteract the American influence. The two nations also differed in their interest...

American Post-Cold War Relations

Post-Cold War U.S./Turkey Relations Turkey and the United States had a close cooperation during the Cold War. They were allied ag...

Japanese and German Economies in the Post Cold War Environment

the west, but this did not compensate for the difficulties, which included increasing unemployment, a lack of internal capital for...

Post Cold War Relations in the Middle East

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

World Instability in the Years Following the Cold War

The way the United States relates with other nations has changed dramatically over our history. These changes have been particula...

The Cold War

Introduction The cold War was an incredibly volatile time in the world when the Soviet Union and the United States stood at a rel...

Cold War Politics and Culture

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

Origins and Implications of the Cold War Era

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

Cold War and Yalta Conference of February 1945

how the balance of power shifted and adjusted to events and how the alliances were formed and within the framework that was to bec...

The So-Called Ongoing Gulf War and U.S. Involvement

a part of Iraq, yet Kuwait had systematically encroached on Iraqi territory, while also deliberately stealing Iraqi oil from the R...

Could the Cold War Been Avoided by the U.S.?

In six pages the Cold War is examined within the context of whether or not the United States could have avoided its involvement. ...

Engelhardt's The End of Victory Culture

other words, conflict has several specific social and cultural functions, especially in terms of the way that a nation defines its...

Peacekeeping Operations of the United States and the North Atlantic Treaty Organization

collective defense against one perceived threat. R?hle said that the architecture should be looked at "as a series of key politica...

Arms Control and the Cold War

British Prime Minister) in 1946 that required immediate attention. Proposing that atomic energy be placed under international con...

America, Russia, and the Cold War 1945-1990 by Walter LaFeber

or another, repeat itself. In his introduction the student can find information which alludes to this theory as LaFeber presents u...

Aftermath of the Cold War

also during this time in history where smaller nations were the targets of intense competition between the United States and the S...