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Asia And The Pacific After Wwii
585 words
The situation that formed in Asia and the Pacific
Rim after WWII was basically a battle between the
West (America, capitalism) and the East (USSR,
communism). The war created two super-powers in
Russia and the USA. Russia immediately began to
convert all their territory gained into communist
puppet governments. This caused disagreement
between the US and the USSR. The US then tried to
suppress the spread of communism. This started the
Cold War. When other countries turned to
communism, the US wo...
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Deeply Rooted Sit Ins
1,276 words
The 1960 s were a time of great change in American
society characterized by ethnic consciousness and
civil rights, womens rights and female liberalism,
anti-war demonstrations, student protests, and the
genesis of the counterculture. A noted speaker
once said, The Cold War, conformity, and
consumerism provided the background for the social
protests movement of the 1960 s. The cause of the
protest movements were much more deeply rooted in
U. S. institutions and history. Although the
protest movem...
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Cold War Space Race
1,371 words
... d to the USSR. Now, the cold war had
established a permanent space race. The U. S.
Army's attempt to launch America's first satellite
into orbit failed in a launch pad explosion. Two
months after the Soviet Union's successful launch
of Sputnik, this failure further emphasized
America's lag behind the Soviet Union in the space
race. Having already lost the race to launch the
world's first artificial satellite to the Soviet
Union, the United States accelerated its plan to
develop an unmanned M...
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World War Ii Cold War
1,269 words
... the House of American Activities, in which he
tried suspected communists. The whole country went
Communist crazy. His main idea was that the real
basic difference, however, lies in the religion of
immorality... (Gorn 214) People were paranoid and
many peoples lives were destroyed. This lasted
until McCarthy died in the late fifties. On the
domestic front, the Cold War helped the Soviet
Union entrench its military-bureaucratic ruling
class in power, and it gave the US a way to compel
its popu...
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U S S R Winston Churchill
643 words
What was the Cold War and what events caused it?
Cold War is the term used to describe the intense
rivalry that developed after World War II between
groups of Communist and non-Communist nations. On
one side were the Union of Soviet Socialist
Republics (U. S. S. R. ) and its communist allies
that referred to as the Eastern bloc. On the other
side were the United Staes and its democratic
allies, usually referred to as the Western bloc.
Cold War was characterized by mutual distrust,
suspicion, and...
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Cold War Era World War Ii
1,160 words
This happened in China, and the USSR. In the
Australia, they broke away from total British
rule, and began trading with Asia; this caused
them to become an industrial giant. Another
industrial giant that formed during the cold war
was Japan. The US disarmed them, but then promised
to protect them if they were under attack. Japan
then spent no money on military, so they had a lot
of money to spare. They began to export like
crazy, and soon became the richest country in the
world. Social changes t...
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Post Cold War George W Bush
1,791 words
Recent U. S. Foreign Policy How far and to what
cost militarily to pursue human rights and
idealism in the name of democracy and justice; how
far to pursue self-interest in the name of power,
advantage, and security, were to be challenges of
foreign policy and decision faced by presidents
Ronald Reagan in El Salvador, Grenada, Lebanon,
and Nicaragua; by George Bush in Panama and the
Gulf War; by Bill Clinton in Somalia, Bosnia,
Haiti, Iraq, Kosovo; buy George Bush in Iraq and
Afghanistan. Indeed...
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U S Foreign Policy Second World War
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U. S. Foreign Policy and Aid to Nepal in the Cold
War Period: Implications for Future Direction U.
S. Foreign Policy and Aid to Nepal in the Cold War
Period: Implications for Future Direction Table of
Contents Introduction The U. S. Interest in Nepal
The Motivations for Aid The U. S. Aid and its
Foreign Policy Objectives U. S. Aid and the
Politico-Economic Objectives An Evaluation of The
Aid Impact The Future Direction of the U. S. Aid
Conclusion Bibliography Introduction Foreign aid
is basicall...
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Arab Israeli Conflict American Foreign Policy
2,669 words
American Foreign Policy It is not a secret that
today America is the most influential country
around the globe. Americas rise to world power is
a consequence of the nations geographical
position, natural resources, dynamic energy and
successful foreign policy. (Carpenter, 74) For
relatively short period, America became so strong
that today it is a single superpower in the world.
In 1938, the United States possessed the most
productive economy in the world with one of the
largest navies. However,...
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World War Ii Cold War
2,070 words
Using Double Agents and Problems Connected with It
Intelligence means many things to different
people. Social scientists associate eight
interpretations to the expression. Statecraft, or
more mundanely government, requires knowledge both
in a general and in a particular sense.
Intelligence in government usually has a more
restricted meaning than just information and its
collection, processing and use. It is related to
international affairs, defense, national security
and secrecy and it works thr...
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Stepping Stone Cold War
1,274 words
From the year 1968 to the present there were many
events which either traumatized the world or
provided a stepping stone for the different areas
of success. Technology vastly affected and
promoted the competition of the two most diverse
systems in the world. Better known as the cold
war, the competition between democratic systems
and communist systems was fueled by technology.
Because of the way technology had manipulated the
world, both systems leaders knew that the power to
control lies with t...
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National Security Council World War Ii
3,258 words
Less than a year after the end of World War II,
the great wartime leader of Britain, Winston
Churchill gave a speech at Westminster College, in
Fulton, Missouri. After receiving an honorary
degree and being introduced by President Harry
Truman, he delivered a historic speech. Churchill
said, ? It is my duty to place before you certain
facts about the present position in Europe. From
Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Adriatic
an Iron Curtain has descended across the
Continent. Behind that l...
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Ho Chi Minh 38 Th Parallel
1,168 words
The Cold War was characterized by mutual distrust,
suspicion, and misunderstandings by the United
States and the Soviet Union. At times, these
conditions increased the likelihood of a third
world war. Elementary and Middle School books tell
about the cold war being the struggle of the evil
east against the democratic west. This leads
students to believe that the cold war was one
major battle, but really the cold war was made up
of many smaller events. The United States accused
the Soviet Union o...
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Cuban Missile Crisis President John F Kennedy
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During the administration of United States
President John F. Kennedy, the Cold War reached
its most dangerous state, and the United States
and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR)
came to the edge of nuclear war in what was known
as the Cuban Missile Crisis. What was the Cold
War? What started the tensions between the United
States and the USSR? What actions were taken and
how were the problems resolved? All of these
questions and more shall be answered in this
paper. The Cold War was ...
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Diego Union Tribune San Diego Union
3,406 words
The desire for an organization that would help the
international community? avoid future conflicts?
and the recognized need for a global body that
would? promote international economic and social
cooperation? led the powerful states emerging from
the rubble of WWII to develop the United Nations.
The newly formed United Nations? represented an
expression of hope for the possibilities of a new
global security arrangement and for fostering the
social and economic conditions necessary for peace
to p...
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Quest For Power Lord Of The Flies
1,293 words
The parents were supposed to be the authority.
They were sensible with a well functioning
society. Yet their fears caused them to degrade to
the same state as to boys of the island. Their
foundation crumbled, so did their values causing
them to fight with one another. If someone is
given all the freedom they want, and can revolt
against the rules, their evil will come out.
Social status melts away and they become savage.
The similarities between the society of the boys
and a cultured society, su...
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Osama Bin Laden Sirs Cd Rom
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Mutually Assured Destruction by Terrorism The year
is 1999. The Cold War has been over for more than
a decade and for the first time in a half-century,
the world is free from the spectre of nuclear
apocalypse. It should be a time of peace and
prosperity, but all over the globe the embers of
old animosities have been fanned to flame. (Clancy
1). Now the world must face a new fear. Not one of
Armageddon or mutually assured destruction, but
one of terror. Sane politicians no longer hold the
key to ...
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National Catholic Reporter Post Cold War
1,246 words
Public Schools vs. Post-Cold War Military Spending
Even though the Cold War era is a distant memory,
encased in glass forever like some museum piece,
our government is still spending as if the Soviet
Union was in its prime. If the arms race is a
forgotten memory, then why is the military still
spending 86 % of what it was spending during the
Cold War. It s not that us Americans do not want a
solid military, we just believe that our military
is wasting billions of dollars at the expense of
our ch...
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Arab Israeli Conflict American Foreign Policy
1,877 words
Rise to Globalism: American Foreign Policy Since
1938 Rise to Globalism, by Stephen Ambrose, is an
enlightened work on the development of American
foreign policy from World War II through the
Reagan administration. It is an excellent one
volume history, basic, but full of fact, that
explains the trends in foreign policy that led
America from its isolationist attitude of the
first half of the nineteenth century to its
position of global power and imminence today. The
basic causes of the worlds ma...
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National Missile Defense Christian Science Monitor
4,041 words
Star Wars and National Missile Defense:
Unnecessary Yesterday, Unnecessary Today Ever
since nuclear weapons of mass destruction have
existed, people have been attempting to create
ways to prevent a war that would bring about a
worldwide Arma-gordon. Many of today? s top
military and government officials have been
studying ways in which the United States can
protect itself from a nuclear missile attack. What
they have come up with is the National Missile
Defense program, or NMD. The NMD would con...
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