Study Guide: Cold War Exam #2 Algeria - the largest of France's North African colonies. In 1954, radical nationalist groups merged to create the National Liberation Front, and launched an uprising in cities all around Algeria. France, having just lost Indochina, sent a bunch of troops and fought a war that ... Fidel Castro - leader of Cuba who overthrew government friendly with the Americans in 1958. Diplomatic ties were cut in 1961 due to his anti-American reforms and Marxist outlook. Became friendly with soviets and allowed them to move ICBM's onto Cuba causing the Cuban Missile Crisis in 1...

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... among nations. This, however, was not enough to cool down the German. On the September 4th, 1941, the German forces fired on an American ship. In response, Roosevelt ordered the Navy to shoot back at the German boats and submarines. This war being undeclared was not enough ... feared that her Philippine and Guam islands would soon fall into Japan conquest. While trying to study their enemy, America managed to crack a code the Japanese used in relaying secret messages. In an attempt to suppress Japan, Roosevelt ordered oil supplies to Japan to be cut off. However, ... descended on the hig...

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... many efforts to that end, beginning with the release of those imprisoned by Stalin and a visit to the United States. Relations with the US deteriorated after the U-2 incident in which an American spy plane was shot down over Russia on May 1, 1960. As a result, Khrushchev decided to put up the infamous Berlin wall, separating West Germany and the communist East Germany, and ... of its performance. Soviet defense spending under Brezhnev and later, Gorbachev, was primarily a response to internal political imperatives. At most, the Cold War and the high levels of American defense spending pr...

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... interesting. Emphasis was given in US history (not in detail though, I tried to be objective at that point, too!), International Affairs, the way that American market works, and finally the education and general culture here. [2] A briefing of US history I said it before, and I'll keep repeating it throughout ... just want to rely on some details that most historical books seem to ignore or underestimate. The main question is: which factors helped the American nation (does American nation, actually exist? That's another question it keeps my mind busy for the last 10 years) become so stro...

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... organizations. The Red Scare had its immediate roots in a combination of domestic and international events. A nationwide fear of communists suddenly grabbed the American psyche and held the nation in the grips of fear. After the war, America was in uncharted territory. Nuclear weapons were new, powerful, ... through the politics of film. Communism crept into facets of culture such as entertainment and quickly spread its message, of demonising communism. The American cinema was never associated with "Red" propaganda but this was questioned when three pro-Russian movies were released. "The...

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... 's conclusions and observations though arrived at nearly a half century ago, are still useful for profiling present day and, hopefully, someday predicting future totalitarian regimes. To demonstrate this premise, an assessment of Saddam Hussein's regime, using the central elements of Arendt's analysis of totalitarianism, will be presented. To aid in the analysis and discussion, some historical examples will be provided ... (Arendt 308). Twentieth century technology in mass media, radio, television, mass printed text and its widely flung distribution systems, allowed and allow totalitarian...

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... and telecommunications. This has positively affected the productivity of the media industry and organizational structures, facilitated the rationalization of distribution, and improved efficiency. The progression of an advanced information and telecommunications society has transformed our lives. Greater speed and improved efficiency in transactions have lowered social costs correcting high-cost structures, reduced the occurrence ... possible to process large amounts of information rapidly, and to accumulate, search, use and alter the information easily. The value of information will inc...

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... Surprisingly, these two interpretations are similar; however the audience has a much wider and more significant view on the circumstances. The statement is accurate when referring to Animal Farm as an allegory. Orwell pushes his allegorical narrative from past history to future prophecy. The pigs will openly expose themselves to be indistinguishable with man. For instance, "the pigs start to ... are all the more powerful because the audience arrive at these points themselves, without Orwell pointing these things out directly. It is therefore accurate to state that Animal Farm is an alleg...

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... One US marine said: "If they weren't pro Viet Cong before we got there, they sure as well were by the time we left." An example of this hatred is the My Lai massacre in March 1968 were over 300 civilians were killed. The Americans also had a lax way of life ... could revert back to focusing on the Soviet Union, they were also embarrassed by the Navy being better prepared. It was a failure, it cost the US an estimated $900 million in return for no real gain. Johnson had stopped Rolling Thunder in order to start peace talks in '69. Another strategy which wasn ... they had gone. Search and...

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... three nations present. This treaty was the beginning of the cold war and a tension between Eastern and Western Europe. A famous speech by Winston Churchill in 1946 describes the situation as an "Iron Curtain", which separates the Soviet bloc of Eastern Europe from the West. The West and United States had always been a great distrust and fear of communism since the establishment ... a war that the nation could not give up but it had shown that it was a wrong decision for the American. Communist forces eventually conquered South Vietnam and proved that the United States was growing unsure...

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... three nations present. This treaty was the beginning of the cold war and a tension between Eastern and Western Europe. A famous speech by Winston Churchill in 1946 describes the situation as an "Iron Curtain", which separates the Soviet bloc of Eastern Europe from the West. The West and United States had always been a great distrust and fear of communism since the establishment ... a war that the nation could not give up but it had shown that it was a wrong decision for the American. Communist forces eventually conquered South Vietnam and proved that the United States was growing unsure...

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... outlook inspired such efforts as increasing agricultural modernization, road and railway-building, and the implementation of new nuclear weapons programs. However, there are factors which present issues that internationalized the study of the Cold War. As a result, a research timeline which began with one-dimensional and pro-west interpretations, shows and increased rejection of those in favor of a more pro-Soviet perspective ... Williams and his book The Tragedy of American Diplomacy, many looked to revise the conventional views held to that point. Revisionists challenged the orthodox ...

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... that their only role in Cuba was for humanitarian purposes. On Tuesday October 23rd, the day after President Kennedy made his speech to the American people explaining the crisis, CIA Director John McCone reported that the Russians were beginning to camouflage the missile sites [p.36]. The fact that ... boarding a ship full of baby food would be miniscule compared to blowing up thousands of people in an air attack and subsequent invasion. Besides, RFK's surprise that the Organization of American States supported the quarantine leads me to believe that he would have thought it next to impo...

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... Americas foremost black intellectuals, he fought the struggle for racial advancement in the first half of the 20th Century. W.E.B. Du Bois was a scholar an activist, and a writer. William Edward Burghardt Du Bois was born on February 23, 1868 in Great Barrington, Massachusetts. Parents were Alfred Du Bois ... and William lived with Grandfather Burghardt for almost five years . Grandfather died in 1873. Du Bois started school in 1874. Du Bois was an excellent student . Racial prejudice slowly entered his life. One day was playing with calling cards. Gave calling card to white girl and she...

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... policies that resulted in creation and maintenance of the Japanese Relocation Camps and horrific repercussions. These are the reasons why I took Cold War and decolonization period as my topic of study (McMahon, 1981). Under U.S. foreign policies with Europe between WWI-WWII. By that time, United States emerged as the richest nation in the whole world. This status dove the foreign goals ... of the country to the 1920s. During this period, there was an expansion of American markets in addition, investing capital in Europe. There were sales of American facilities to the foreign markets e.g...

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... get a name for themselves by showing how great, life in their country was. Shows like Leave It to Beaver and Father Knows Best portrayed the stereotypical American families. Even though everyone knows that there is no such thing as a perfect family, people still enjoyed watching these types of shows. Commercials, or shows ... ethnic mixing, or racial tension. It just presented the "perfect world." Juxtaposed, it could be argued that the Cold War didn't help shape the American society. American life could have just formed like how it was supposed to happen; like human nature. When the men ...

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... stop pushing Vietnam to seek support from China or Russia, making it a non-aligned country. This was better than what he thought that, and what did become of continued American intervention, a Soviet ally in Vietnam, and consequently communist states of varying loyalties (either to China or the Soviet Union) in neighboring Laos and Cambodia. In this example, we ... predicate such a world peace include the ubiquitous acceptance of liberal democracy in countries' political systems, the eventual, complete reduction of armed forces, total respect of territorial sovereignty, and an internation...

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... to be blurred compared to the clear-cut views of the American policy of containment during the Cold War. Determining the origin of the Cold War has been an extremely challenged subject matter of any study of American diplomacy. Through out the years opinions have changed, due to willingness ... these researchers unanimously agreed with this historiography of the Cold War. Following the bias opinions, intellectuals began to examine the American purity, in return placing fault on the American disloyal actions during World War II. Moving into the 1970's, Post-revisionists blamed the Cold Wa...

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... invade Cuba. In that fundamental respect the settlement was solid. It was not, however, until 1970 that it became clear that there was a 1962 Soviet-American "understanding" of continuing, or newly activated, validity. As earlier noted, the United States had never issued any public or official statement of a commitment not ... to invade Cuba after the highly conditional statement by President Kennedy of November 20, 1962--the conditions of which (an international inspection in Cuba to verify the continuing absence of offensive arms) had not been met. This studied silence on a U.S. commi...

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... War period. Almost six years of military conflict had left its nations in economic and social crisis. Europe was also torn by a Cold War', an ideological struggle between communism in the East and capitalism in the West. As the above quote from Arter shows, these conditions seemed to provide the ideal ... for their goods and therefore strengthening their economy too. It was also a politically motivated system designed to unite the West against the East. The American planners knew that the Soviet Union and a number of Eastern European nations would turn their proposals down but they also ...

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... cites multiple sources in the beginning of his article all claiming that the Soviet entry into the war would've put an immediate end to it. The War Departments study concludes, "the Japanese leaders had decided to surrender and were merely looking for sufficient pretext to convince the die ... that our country should avoid shocking world opinion by the use of a weapon whose employment was, I thought, no longer mandatory as a measure to save American lives." This statement was made in his 1963 Mandate for Change. However, in 1955, eight years earlier, Eisenhower is quoted saying, "Yes of ....

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... tumultuous and fierce passion of the revolution in a style that is both informative and engaging. As Reed himself put it "this book is a slice of intensified history". John Reed was an American reporter who went to Russia in 1917 to report on World War One from the Russian front. Little did he know then that he was about to witness one of ... government and the moderate socialists were afraid to embrace these changes. They did everything in their power to curtail the will of the people. In this regard, the book is an excellent account of one class trying to impose their will over anothe...

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... at the expenses of a weaker neighbor."(Iriye, 16) In order to get and even clear picture of how much the two neighbors spent on military build you would need to study the military funding budget. During the 1890's to 1914 Japans annual budget for the military build up was between 30 to 50 percent of national budget. This translated into being ... not make much sense economically. "The war did not make much sense economically to the Japanese, not to mention the Chinese- unless they somehow perceived the war as a prelude to an economic union that would benefit both countries. (Iriye, 69) ...

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... at far below capacity, with tractors and other related transportation equipment becoming increasingly idle. This had a direct affect on the levels of food production and the floods and drought made an already bad situation worse. (Huang, Smith 2000). The increasing isolation of North Korea in the post-Cold War era has left the country short of the foreign capital necessary to ... diversification and crop rotation to reduce the adverse consequences of mono-cropping and to hedge against crop losses in any one year due to adverse weather conditions. A detailed land-use study is necessary t...

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... on EBay (how creepy is that?). The story starts with a grandson leaving a message to his grandfather telling that he is leaving for America to study. The grandfather is actually insulting the grandson to be a capitalist pig since he is leaving for America instead staying in Leningrad. As a response the ... tells him how people in America have different sets of problems. That they worry about the fact that a BMW has a shift stick instead of an automatic transmission and that the parents of a friend of his is getting divorce. As he mentions the divorce, the grandfather reminds the grandson...

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