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... world was engulfed in a game of "us- verses "them- ¯whichever superpower could gather the most countries, develop the fastest technology, threaten other nations with nuclear warfare, or walk on the moon first would win the race to superiority. Although no actual bloodshed took place, a sense of panic and hatred overcame participating nations; beating the opponent seemingly remained the only worthwhile cause ... ...
... Nations. Phase V - The uncertainty phase, beginning in the 1960s and displaying crisis tendencies in the early 1990s. Inclusion of Third World and heightening of global consciousness in the late 1960s. Moon Landing. Accentuation of "post-materialist" values. End of cold war and spread of nuclear weapons. Number of global institutions and movements greatly increases. Societies increasingly face problems of multiculturality and ... ...
... the three forms of WMD - Nuclear, Biological or Chemical weapons were feared and still are but a new up and coming weapon of mass destruction is Information Warfare. Unlike what we read so far about NBC weapons, Information Warfare is more easily available, it's subtle and if pushed far enough can cause massive destruction and disruption during peacetimes and in times of ... tactical levels of combat operations, crisis management or other national security operations." (D.C. Latham, personal communication, 4/5/01) In combat operations or war, IW weapons have been used to gather intellig...
... had been done exclusively by the United States.31 Byrnes returned to Washington on January 5, 1946, where he was met by an extremely angry President Truman.32 Truman had just read the Ethridge report, which Byrnes had attempted to keep hidden from him. The report warned that to concede a limited Soviet sphere of influence at the present time would be to ... ...
... Herb Block's political cartoon. Herb Block illustrates the paranoia of the Red Scare, and how even the most innocent of individuals were at risk. The political cartoon titled, "So you read books, eh?" depicts a teacher under interrogation by a group of officials for being a suspected communist spy. The men represent the "Anti-Subversive Committee." They are portrayed as grumpy, old, and stern ... ...
... the principle of restoring Poland with the border adjustments that the Soviet delegation had requested. Churchill placated the Soviet leader by agreeing to the same border adjustments. The subsequent proposal read: It was agreed in principle that the hearth of the Polish state and people must be situated between the so-called Curzon Line (a demarcation line that pushed the eastern boundary ... ...
... and 20th) captain Alfred Thayer Mahan's book of 1890, The Influence of Sea Power upon History, 1660-1783, argued that control of the sea was the key to world dominance. Read by the English, Germans, and Japanese, as well a by his fellow Americans, Mahan helped stimulate the naval race among the great powers that gained momentum around the turn of the ... ...
... the harder its guardians tried to suppress alternatives, the more popular the alternatives became. The lesson was learned in 1955 when a little known poet named Alan Ginsberg was scheduled to read his poem HOWL at City Lights bookstore in San Francisco. Captain William Hanrahan of the SFPD busted up the reading, confiscated copies of the poem and arrested City Lights owner ... ...
... doctors was increased as rapidly as facilities and training would permit; and death and infant mortality rates steadily decreased. Education was also dramatically expanded, with many more Russians learning to read and write, and higher education extended. The generation that grew up under Stalin also saw a major expansion in job opportunities, especially for women. Nonetheless, for Stalin this was not mission ... ...
... to weaken them, because the US and Britain would not want the Soviet Union to gain much power after the war. According to what I have been taught and what I have read from the Russian point if view, that was a great betrayal by the US and UK in 1942, which left the USSR no possibility of peaceful cooperation with the Americans. Considering ... ...
... a somewhat sentimental statement by Marshall: "If the First Amendment means anything, it means that a State has no business telling a man, sitting alone in his own house, what books he may read or what films he may watch. Our whole constitutional heritage rebels at the thought of giving government the power to control men's minds."# This distinction between possession and distribution of ... ...
