Vietnam Antiwar Lit Review Vietnam Anti-War Literature Review The Vietnam War marked a lot of "firsts" in relation to the course of American history. It is the first war that the United States lost. It is one of the first major military actions whe Continue Reading...
Iran-Contra Outline Oliver North, Ronald Reagan, and "Plausible Deniability." This paper will attempt to contextualize Oliver North and the Iran-Contra Affair within a larger discussion of Cold War strategy. The introduction will present the paper Continue Reading...
U.S./India Security Ties After 11th September 2001Executive SummaryThis paper examines security ties between the US and India in the years after the 9/11 attacks on America. To provide context for those security ties and their development, it first l Continue Reading...
Discussion 1 1. Events of the 1950’s strongly influenced the lives of those living in the early 1960s. In fact, many of the events that took place in the 1950s reverberated throughout and beyond the 20th century and continue to impact American Continue Reading...
Homeland Security and U.S. Intelligence Formation of Department of Homeland Security & U.S. Intelligence on Terrorism Definition of Intelligence Rationale for Formation of DHS Effectiveness of DHS Importance of Intelligence & Analysts R Continue Reading...
Conciliation seems to be more to the purpose, if opposing bodies are expected to work together to govern a country. Humphrey said in his study on From Victim to Victimhood, "By contrast, trials have played a much smaller role during political transi Continue Reading...
The Church Committee concluded that these activities made the intelligence community a secret government that was illegal, unethical, and improper and did not reflect the people or the nation of America. Secret intelligence actions were used to dis Continue Reading...
USA Hegemony There are no fundamental differences between now and what international politics used to be in the first half of the 20th Century. It is true that the post-WWII period has been more peaceful, but it is not because of a fundamental trans Continue Reading...
Though the book focuses on femininity and gender division, it explores these topics as a window to the larger issue of a society dealing with the fact that it could be instantaneously annihilated. This fear was used to fuel rampant consumerism, much Continue Reading...
Iran Military Assessment Military Assessment MILITARY OVERVIEW: The Cold War era and the arms race started in that time has made countries aware of the importance of maintaining a reasonable arsenal of weapons, specially attaining independence in m Continue Reading...
Photojournalism was a defining feature of the Vietnam War era, bringing informative but usually horrific images from the front lines to the pages of print and the tubes of television. Therefore, photojournalism was instrumental in shaping the America Continue Reading...
Disaster Situation Effective Media Relations Campaign -- Particularly since the events of 9/11, Emergency Management and Disaster Relief organizations are in clear view of the media and public. People have viewed first-hand the actions of New York C Continue Reading...
The result was a put-off United States. Realizing this furthered the need for an outside alliance, talks of NATO resumed. At this point, Canada saw NATO as more than just a defense strategy in the face of Communism. Canada fought and won a battle i Continue Reading...
Cold War It is important to note from the onset that the Cold War was not essentially a war that involved conventional military weaponry. It was a war that largely involved the utilization of surrogates, propaganda, and economics -- it was a war of Continue Reading...
In this respect, it was not the reality which mattered but rather the perception of that reality. Most of the times during the Cold War, but especially after the fall of the Iron Curtain, the reality showed that the perception of the Russian Soviets Continue Reading...
Question 5 Taken together, Zelizer and Gourevitch's work offer a substantial examination of the changes the United States has undergone following the end of the Cold War. However, in both cases it seems as if the authors are so interested in what Continue Reading...
PRESIDENT RONALD REAGAN UNDERRATED OR OVERRATED? Ronald Reagan Is President Ronald Reagan Overrated or Underrated? Is President Ronald Reagan Overrated or Underrated? Is Ronald Reagan Underrated or Over Rated as A person? Ronald Reagan became t Continue Reading...
Anticommunism / Communism In Red Scare or Red Menace? John Earl Haynes seeks to rectify deficiencies in the historiography of American anticommunism. Prior examinations, he contends, have failed to accurately explain critical components of the oppos Continue Reading...
Many businesses could no longer operate in this fashion and likely closed their doors leading to a rise in unemployment. This is an example of the rule that Hitler had on the Pre-World War II German economy. The people of the nation were completely Continue Reading...
But even May admits that images such as the bomb shelter do not always convey an accurate picture of reality, given that few Americans built such shelters in their homes, although the images of the media might suggest differently, and the way people Continue Reading...
The systems that were earlier adopted to enhance security deterrence were ignored in the post war era, leading to a paved way for international relations that included policy development and other positive security measures (Huebert 3). Measures ta Continue Reading...
Empire The theme of gender and sexuality is related to social power. In Reproducing Empire: Race, Sex, Science, and U.S. Imperialism in Puerto Rico, Briggs shows how race, class, gender, and power are interrelated and interconnected. Puerto Rican cu Continue Reading...
Did she on some subconscious level realize this irony and dichotomy? She does not deal with it in her book, but on some Freudian level it is certainly possible that she did. To recap, both of the authors Elaine Tyler May and Ann Moody see the insti Continue Reading...
Energy costs increased substantially and the yen's exchange rate was shifted to a floating rate. The eventual recession reduced expectations of future growth and reduced private investment. Economic growth went down from 10% to 3.6% during the perio Continue Reading...
The United States offered up to $20 billion for relief, but only if the European nations could unite and draw up a rational plan on how they would use the aid (Marshall1 pp). For the first time in history, they would have to cooperate with each oth Continue Reading...
Homelessness Among the Veteran Community: America's Forgotten Heroes Each year, thousands of citizens wind up homeless and living on the streets in America, as well as all over the world. The issue of homelessness in the U.S. has become widespread e Continue Reading...
Graduate and the New Left In the United States in the 1960s, the nation was going through a change both in the psychological and sociological makeup of the population. Everything about the country was changing quickly, right down to the very moral Continue Reading...
Leadership United States had been involved with the world affairs from 18th century to the present and its most prominent role was during the pre-world war era and post-world war affairs of the world. Particularly when President Dwight Eisenhower a Continue Reading...
James Bond is presently one of the principal sexual concepts that the film puts across. Daniel Craig's Bond is no longer seen as a very effective killing tool, as it shown as an object of admiration. Craig's physical appearance is no longer a crime Continue Reading...
Cold War, the president of the United States was often referred to as the "leader of the free world." This connotes an image of someone with an unsurpassed amount of power and responsibility. From 1861 to 1969, the role of President of the United St Continue Reading...
aid President George W. Bush in policy formulation. It is an all-inclusive paper dealing with a wide range of issues such as the American economy in general- discussing issues such as budget deficits, tax cuts, medical assistance and benefits for re Continue Reading...
S. It is now the Germans, the British, the Italians, the Swedes, and all of the European Union." Over the last fifty years the American foreign policy has been characterized by "liberal internationalism and globalism" During the period between 1781 Continue Reading...
' Indians across the political spectrum, especially the country's powerful nuclear weapons establishment, are critical of the NPT, arguing that it unfairly warps international hierarchies to the disadvantage of the non-nuclear-weapon states" (1998:15 Continue Reading...
On the other hand, Whittaker Chambers was "a contributing editor of Time (...) from 1925 to April 1938, (he) had been a Communist, a writer of radical literature, an editor of the Communist Daily Worker. He had also been what was then vaguely known Continue Reading...
Thus, "by late 1992, the catastrophic situation in Somalia had outstripped the UN's ability to quickly restore peace and stability, mainly because the UN was hamstrung by insufficient forces and UN peacekeeping principles and methods could not cope Continue Reading...
(MACV Dir 381-41) This document is one of the first confidential memorandums associated with the Phoenix Program, which details in 1967 the mostly U.S. involvement in counterinsurgency intelligence and activities and discusses the future training an Continue Reading...
Huntington's Clash Of Civilization confirm or refute Huntington's clash of civilizations thesis Huntington's clash of civilization Scholars, journalists, and policy makers have adopted and popularized the ideas of Samuel P. Huntington, who was a p Continue Reading...
John Lewis Gaddis - The Cold War Historian Blaming Stalin and the Soviets for the Cold War Part 1: Life of John Lewis Gaddis John Lewis Gaddis was born in 1941 and thus grew up and came of age during the Cold War, which he would go on to write about Continue Reading...
