... "family" car, manufacturers aimed their sales pitch at the worker of the family, the man. Bracketing the various chapters of her book between Mamie Eisenhower's "New Look" and the Nixon-Khrushchev "Kitchen Debates," Marling is obviously concerned with the importance of popular culture as it relates to Cold War history. The modern American home and its contents were used as ... gadgets meant to make life easier for the American housewife. While Khrushchev scoffed at what he viewed as useless gadgets and a misrepresentation of the life of the average American, Nixon equated the choice of co...

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... it's too late. "What do the Chinese Communists want? They don't just want Quemoy and Matsu. They don't just want Formosa (Taiwan). They want the world" - Statement from Richard Nixon in 1960's Kennedy-Nixon President TV debates in Waugh,S., (2001), Essential Modern World History, Thomas Nelson: UK Yet if the US were to try and contain China, it would need the support of ... did not follow the policy it applied in Korea, and did not intervene. This decision left open the possibility of an improved relationship with the USA. Thus, during 1972 President Nixon flew to Peking, which later re...

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... Union was gaining power. Evidence of this could be found within the Soviet Union in military development, and abroad through the development of the Soviet satellite nations. Beginning with the Richard Nixon administration, a policy of containment towards the Soviets and the curbing of Soviet strength and growth became top priority. The United States wanted to lock the Soviet Union in its position ... difficult to locate. The disintegration of the Soviet Union was complete, consisting of both economic and political destruction. Gorbachev had begun his reforms slowly, but they quickly pas...

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... . To eat Campbell's soup or to drink Pepsi represented being American. Thus, Warhol's image of a loaded refrigerator was surely also ideologically loaded at the close of a decade that had seen Richard Nixon's major debate with the Soviets (over the provision of consumer goods) not only take place in a kitchen but even come to be called the "Kitchen Debate." And Warhol's painting of ... ...

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... , the left leaning Democratic Party dominated the government, holding majorities in both houses of Congress, as well as, the presidency through Kennedy and Johnson until 1968, with the election of Richard Nixon. This political dominance allowed for legislation, which not only, reflected the liberalism of the era, but expanded upon Roosevelt's "New Deal" which had been interrupted by WWII and the ensuing ... ...

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... influence expanded until it was finally checked in the jungles of Southeast Asia and by more fundamental changes in the international distribution of economic and military power. The administration of Richard Nixon constituted a watershed in that it was the first to deal with the challenge posed by the increasing disequilibrium between America's international position and America's capacity to finance , efforts toward dé ... ...

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