... fore, and see this as very important to the origins of the Cold War. However, their focus is in the ideology of Stalin in particular, and the Stalinist regime. Historian John Lewis Gaddis suggests that it was Stalin's policies coupled with the Soviet totalitarian government that drew the West into an escalation of hostility and an arms race. He writes in 1997 ... ...
... to balance the ideas and interpretations of the two previous schools without taking a low-road and non-scholastic approach sets it apart from the other two movements. Led by historian John Lewis Gaddis and his book "The United States and the Origins of the Cold War," post-revisionism claimed that there were several reasons to explain the origin of the Cold War ... ...
... stereotypical Vietnam veterans and their Vietnamese enemies, survival as a form of heroism, cynicism as a form of self-preservation, rather than historical accuracy. The only major production during the Vietnam Conflict, John Wayne's 1968 The Green Berets, illustrates how directors concentrated on drama rather than history. Dismayed by the growing protest against United States" involvement in Vietnam, Wayne contested that he tried ... the film. Even more so, Kovic's memoir never mentioned any high school sweetheart. The changes by Stone to Kovic's book, exemplify how Hollywood is driven...
