... foreign languages, actively used the injection of class, racial, national contradictions. The processes involved are enormous intellectual, human, material and financial resources. The victory in the Cold War, as in "hot" wars, won one of those who had more resources and use them most effectively. Independent methodological interest to historians is the periodization of the Cold War. In the known sources ... ...

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... zone on both sides of the border (Armistice). As President Eisenhower foresaw in his diary, this did not resolve much, as this border remains one of the tensest Cold War hot spots still remaining to this day. The common American might observe these disheartening consequences of the Korean War, and look back with confusion or frustration with the Truman and Eisenhower ... ...

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... through second or third hand through T.V. and print, through images that become banal and disassociated by being repeated, there is a role for affectless art. You no longer needed to be hot and full of feeling. You could be super cool. And Andy Warhol certainly felt and embodied this idea. Warhol was born Andrew Warhola. According to his birth certificate, he was ... ...

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What do a hot pink dress, a sparkling new Chevy and a bright green Jell-O mold all have in common? Karal Ann Marling asserts that Americans became obsessed with such colorful new objects during the 1950s, ... ...

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... to reach a number of limited agreements that would set the pace for a period of thawing' in the Cold War. In 1963 an agreement in Geneva provided for the establishment of a hot line' , a direct telephone link between the White House and the Kremlin, and was designed for use in emergencies such as the Cuban missile crisis. In 1963 Britain, America and the ... ...

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... therefore had to be contained before the world could maintain a healthy international community. The United States hoped to contain communism by waging economic and psychological warfare rather than by using hot war. America supported free countries by sending economic and military aid to be used in their fight to resist communism. America also waged an international campaign aimed at encouraging mass ... ...

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... Union and its Warsaw Pact allies - loosely described as the Eastern Block. A full scale "east versus west" war never actually broke out, hence the metaphor of a "cold" war, rather than a "hot" shooting war. Instead, the conflict continued from the end of World War II until the break up of the Soviet Union in the early 1990s. The aggression between those two ... ...

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