... WarGames provided insight into American culture in the early eighties. The movie centers on a teenage computer hacker named David Lightman who unknowingly breaks into the computer system at the North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD) center in Colorado. The system was designed primarily for running wartime simulations, but in a lapse of good judgment had been recently redesigned to ... allow full control of America's nuclear arsenal. Once inside the system, David inadvertently triggers a countdown towards nuclear war. WarGames skillfully illustrates American society's attitude t...

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... themselves, instead receiving supplies from Russia with underlying tacit support from China (Ferrell 114). In regards to the Soviets involvement, it is believed that they encouraged the Chinese to support North Korea "in order to maintain leverage on the independent-minded group that had just organized a government in Peking" (Ferrell 114). Mainland China, which bordered the Soviet Union, was mostly Nationalist ... which the real attack would ensue in Western Europe against NATO (Ferrell 115). Truman knew that doing nothing in Korea would have a devastating effect on the occupation of J...

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... on the economic stakes and increasing volume of trade, China still harbors a fear of Japanese economic domination and a deep distrust in general. America's capital, willingness to transfer technology and ability to restrain Japan all serve China's interests. The disappearance of the Soviet threat has undermined the ... same time "China looms all the more important for Japan as US interest, presence and influence in Asia seem to diminish." This means America's differences with China over human rights issues could also drive a wedge between US-Japan relations, since Japan would not join th...

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... of any of the parties is threatened. Article 5: The parties agree that an armed attack against one or more of them in Europe or North America shall be considered an attack against them all; and consequently they agree that if such an armed attack occurs, each of them, in exercise of ... of the parties is deemed to include an armed attack on the territory of any of the parties in Europe or North America, on the Algerian Departments of France, on the occupation forces of any party in Europe, on the islands under the jurisdiction of any party in ... accordance with their respective constitu...

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... of national interests and ideology. From 1946 to 1972 the USA was a major obstacle to China's objectives. As leading capitalist power, America opposed the spread of communism in every manner possible; as the major Western supplier of military manpower equipment, she ringed China with potentially hostile ... incapable. USA and China were hostile up to the 1950's during the Korean War, as they were against each other, where China was with North Korea supporting communism and USA was preserving the integrity of South Korea (see Appendix A, Cowie H.R, (1980), Asia and Australia in World Affa...

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... who had been brought into the war after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor in December of 1941. While the Germans and Japanese advanced in North Africa and the Pacific, Hitler launched a new offensive into the Caucasus, seeking to capture the oil fields around Baku. Stalin's armies were ... give up control of the Bosphorus, backed Communist parties in Italy and France, supported Communist insurrection in Indochina (Vietnam), and backed a Stalinist dictatorship in North Korea--all the while denouncing the "warmongers" in the West. Then, in the summer of 1948, Stalin ordered a blockade of ...

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... Reza Shah Pahlavi to succeed the throne. In January 1942, Britain, the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) and the United States of America (USA) signed an agreement with Iran to respect Iran's independence and to withdraw their troops within six months of the war's end. The ... reports in Lebanese newspapers forced the Regan administration to confess the arms deals. Poindexter resigned before the end of the month and Colonel North was fired. Congress selected committees and held joint hearings and in December 1986, Lawrence Walsh was named as special prosecutor to investigate th...

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... candidates. US, France, UK, German, Italy, Spain and Russia were competing each other, then finally 2 possible outcome showed up, U.S and France. Particularly, Europe companies are actively challenging America's military industry. Martin Breck and Jenny Franco in The ultra Nationalism Investigation (TNI) analyse this situation as "Shriveling Europe military industry after cold war, they are knocking the door of ... biggest arm import country, Korea with technology transfer advantage. There was a big problem for Korean government, which was very possible that Bush government may involve p...

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... early part of war; she was arrested and deported to the South in 1862. Another important spy during the Civil War was Timothy Webster he spied on the Confederacy for North during early Civil War. He was born in England, raised in New Jersey and worked for Allan Pinkerton Detective Agency. He passed as Northerner with Southern sympathies very convincingly and ... Communist dictator Joseph Stalin, also U-2 spy planes were heavily used to get photographs of Russian military installations ( ). The CIA is also put to blame for the assassination of one of America's most loved Presidents, Pres...

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... president received expanded powers in pursuit of international goals through agencies such as a National Security Council (NSC) and Central Intelligence Agency (CIA). The most important anti-communist alliance was the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), formed on April 4, 1949. NATO formed after the French, British, and Americans merged their three Western zones of occupation into a west German republic. Stalin responded by ... pro-Western South on June 24, 1950, the Truman administration sent military assistance to the country three days later. Macarthur's army was able to push ...

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... had traditionally been reluctant to involve itself in world affairs; this isolationist policy began to disappear after the war, when it became evident that America, as the strongest democratic nation, needed to play an active role in global affairs in order to protect its own interests as well as ... and hence the security of the United States."" This initiated the American policy of containment, which was reinforced by the formation of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization in 1949; NATO provided for the collective security of the United States and Western Europe against any attack. Ame...

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... Treat Organization immediately. The primary reason for this lies in the military benefits of NATO, however, the treaty is also a vehicle for closer political, economic, and security cooperation in the North Atlantic community. It is a fundamental part of our foreign policy, and will become the foundation of our security system. It is of the utmost importance because while it is technically ... limited to the North Atlantic area, the treaty countries exercise control over a humungous bulk of the strength of the free world, and what happens in Western Europe has direct and immediate polit...

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... use stockpile, development, production, and sale of these weapons; this has been ratified by more than seventy nations. A number of states have not signed up to this convention Egypt, Libya, North Korea, and Syria for example. It would be easy to assume that the reason these countries have yet to join this convention is because they have something to hide but ... continue as a nuclear power to try and deter the Pakistani government from launching into Indian Territory, if the United States were to build their Anti Ballistic Missile system (ABM) in North America, it would be a clear viol...

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... away from the coast of Florida and President Kennedy send ships down to block the Soviets. (Cuban Missile crisis). The Cold War also led America into adapting a doctrine called the containment doctrine where the foreign policy transformed into trying to oppose the Soviets militarily and diplomatically all around the world ... countries so that they would influence other countries into joining the fight. The United States sponsored a number of regional alliances and in 1949 the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) was created. The Soviet Union responded in 1955 with the Warsaw Treaty...

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... government. However, rising in the east were newly liberated governments as well as the menacing Soviet Union choosing to follow the path of communistic reign, the ultimate evil to democratic America, threatening the existence of the American way(or so they thought) in a variety of methods. An overly aggressive Soviet Russia influencing lower European countries even spanning as far as China ... and combat the idealistic viewpoints of socialistic communism that seemed very ideal to many people at the time. The strong aggression the soviets had directly after WWII in 1945 pushed America t...

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... Germany .others who could not make it to these two countries ran to Asia minor ( what is today known as Turkey) China and North America. The revocation of the citizenship in 1920 of Russians by the Soviet Union also led to the expulsion of many Russians who became refugees ... of 1935 which led to many Jews fleeing Germany, an international conference was called in 1938 by the then president of the United States of America, Franklin Roosevelt, to discuss the possibility of resolving the Jew refugee problem. The conference did not yield much result. Rather, a new organization ... UNRRA. ...

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... the United States and the Shah began in 1946, when Washington decided to help protect Iran from the Soviet Union which was seeking to set up a puppet regime in the north of the country. However, it was the 1953 coup, in which prime minister Mohammad Mussadiq was overthrown, that marked the start of the close political, economic, and military relationship between ... Iran as the spiritual leader of the Islamic Republican Party, a party fundamentally opposed to western influence, and American influence in particular. On November 4th 1979, the U.S. embassy was seized and America's Middle-E...

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... states were given a vote in the General Assembly. However, the Security Council, which objectively ranked higher in power on the UN hierarchy, was solely composed by the United States of America, the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, the United Kingdom, France and Taiwan siting in for China. The main antagonisms leading to the Cold War rose almost simultaneously with the birth ... -western powers, since the USSR was boycotting the UN as a response to the US' refusal in 1949 to recognize Mao's PRC. When it was learnt about a full-scale invasion of North to South Korea, the US took the ...

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... have been widely professed, the practice and fulfillment have been different in many countries(Johnson 164). Some Western press and politicos have been saying that "Communism is dead" and that North Korea is the only remaining "Stalinist" country - which too is about to collapse. The fact is that Communism is very much alive. Communism has not died, but it's main ideas ... democratic, socialist and indeed, dictatorial nations (Johnson). In the good old 'anti-Communist' US of A, one finds many Communist ideas in practice as expounded below: Ten Communist planks implemented in America(Joh...

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... the name of a theory may not have been as true as everyone believed it to be. And by joining the Vietnam War, the United States contradicted itself in a way because America is well known for having strong beliefs in being a free nation where the people of the land receives what they want when their voice is heard. And that we are ... neighboring countries when they are attempting to achieve the same goal as us. But when it came to helping North Vietnam we turned our backs on them and sided with the french, their oppressors and south Vietnam. Which was surprising to me because America as...

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... of the Soviet Union under its own economic weakness, its political conflict, and military farce. A decade later, we ask: Who can claim victory for the Cold War, if anyone? Could America, the champion of capitalism and democracy, the state that still stands tall as the present states of the former Soviet Union remain in economic and political turmoil? Could the Soviet ... they hped would help sway the ailing, poor European countries, those thought to be the most vulnerable and accepting to the communist ideals towards capitalism. Not long thereafter came NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organ...

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... they did not do that. From this point of view Russia was rather trying to keep a status-quo. Now it seems that this period is over and United States, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization and Russia are entering a new phase in their relationship. The first quarter after the end of the Civil War was more of mutual cooperation and less of ... NATO, or whether Moldova and Transnistria, strongly divided for whom should they opt for accession (in the long run) to the EU or seek for political support in Russia.16 America's and the EU's reply on Russia's involvement in the Ukrainian conflict ...

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... nations as well as 9 ½ billion plus materials sent to Russia, conflicts erupted over war strategies and plans for the postwar peace." This short passage on page 5 in the "America, Russia, and The Cold War, 1945-1966" book shows a Soviet Union unwilling to cooperate past war time causing tensions between the so called "ideologies of the West" ... , however, "not only did the blockade turn out to be totally ineffective, it ended up backfiring on the Soviets in other ways...it also hastened the creation of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO)" (PBS – Berlin Blockade). This l...

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... face a threat from a dangerous and oppressing government? Logic, and history, states that dangerous individuals are less of a threat then a unified oppressive governmental force. In the interest of the future of America, the exclusionary law should stay the way it is. If the exclusionary rule is dropped altogether, the 4th amendment might as well be crossed out from the constitution. The 4th ... either a violent rebellion against those in power, like our own revolutionary war, or, even worse, in the submission of society to the ruling party, like in the Soviet Union and North Korea. To ...

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