Essays 61 - 90
first stage of escalation sees the parties to the conflict shift from the use of light strategies towards heavy tactics. Light tac...
(5). Therefore, when the wall dividing East and West Germany was finally torn down, it is clear why this was such a powerful symb...
argued that insecurity has been "one fundamental factor affecting Soviet policy" (Diplomatic Telegrams) since the beginnings of th...
In two pages this paper argues that despite its reputed end the Cold War endures in the hearts and minds of those who survived tha...
In seven pages the suppression of art in both the Soviet Union and the US during the Cold War is discussed. Six sources are cited...
In ten pages this paper discusses how the sabotaging of the military by American politics is partly to blame in the US loss of the...
for conflict at the very least; some even blame Germany for "planning and waging a deliberate war of aggression."4 Sheffield expl...
evidence". Agent orange has gained the most notoriety in its use as a defoliant in the Vietnam War. It has been the...
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...
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, ...
important part of scientific and political history and has a great deal of significance. Yet, in delving into the history of space...
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 (...
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...
world has, in fact, led to greater, not lesser, influence of religious leaders (Shah and Toft, 2006). The authors trace this over ...
initiative depended on the use of not just ground-based systems but also space-based systems for the protection of our national ho...
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...
military engaged in a deadly stand-off against the Soviet Union, with both sides poised to destroy the other. The insane doctrine ...
also the ongoing breakdown between Cuba and the United States.3 Twelve hundred American-trained Cuban exiles had visions of viole...
War that followed seemed like fighting through one nightmare only to wind up in the middle of another one, only the second one las...
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...