... was just beginning to develop into a dominant country. It first really just established itself as a world power during the two world wars. Therefore, the cold war was a time in which Americans were trying to get a name for themselves by showing how great, life in their country was. Shows like Leave It ... 1950s showed no poverty, death, ethnic mixing, or racial tension. It just presented the "perfect world." Juxtaposed, it could be argued that the Cold War didn't help shape the American society. American life could have just formed like how it was supposed to happen; like human nature. Wh...

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... it safer for parents to take their children on vacation. One less noted advancement the eras brought is a considerable amount of exciting and forewarning fiction. While most authors chose to warn of nuclear and post nuclear holocaust, one significant author chose a different approach. Tom Clancy chose to write ... of losing petroleum resources is enough to drive governments to drastic measures. This fact is evident in the world's participation in the 1991 Gulf War. The leaders of the Soviet Union decided that the only way to prevent the total collapse of their economy and country was to ...

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... Colonel Draza Mihajlovic, was gaining recognition. Unlike Tito, Mihajlovic wanted to restore the old Yugoslavian ruling order that had governed the country before World War Ï. Tito, on the other hand, wanted Yugoslavia to be a federal socialist state. Mihajlovic's organization, the Chetniks, was far less active ... and assistance. Mihajlovic's inactivity resulted in the Allied forces discontinuing their support for the Chetniks and strengthening alliances with Tito. During the war Tito supported Yugoslavia's participation in the communist revolution. Tito and his forces sought to cre...

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... as defection in The Hunt for Red October (THRO), Clancy is able to advance his plot. Defections for political reasons happened quite often during the Cold War. There were many defections in history starting back in World War II when famous people like Albert Einstein defected to the use because the Germans discriminated again him being Jewish (pg. 124-5, Vol. 9 Funk & Wagnalls Encyclopedia ... to develop reasons for which such a high ranking commander would defect and later cause conflict to occur between the U.S. and Soviet Union. The use of historical facts common during the Cold War ...

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Group Project: Cold War Literature - Fiction Many novels throughout the 1950's sought to show the ills of communism. A reoccuring trend in these books is that they show the world from an apocolyptic stand point; possibley to show the negative outcomes from a war on Communism. After the apocalypse the world was run by a stringent set of rules that mirrored communism. These novels also tried to let ... ...

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