TITLE OF THE BOOK: “The Cold War: A Very Short Introduction” by Robert McMahon This review focuses on one of the themes of the course‚ Main Currents of Modern History OBJECTIVE: The aims of this book review are: 1. To understand about a conflict that spanned four and a half decades(1945-1990) and encompassed virtually the entire globe. 2. To gather the knowledge of how the world order was changed after the world wars and the transition into the cold war. 3. To study the rise and
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The Cold War By Michael L. Parker American Public University System January 16‚ 2013 HIST102: American History since 1877 Professor Poster The Cold War After the end of World War two‚ the United States and the Soviet Union were the two main super powers left standing. Both countries were afraid of each other in different ways. The United States was worried that the Soviet Union was trying to expand its communist ways by invading other countries. They were also worried because the Soviets
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Unit 2 Project Part 1- Interaction Framework Interaction is the communication between a user and some device or system. Frameworks provide a way to create what the interaction between the user and a device should be. It allows us to test and resolve any issues during this interaction process. Testing can be performed as whole and not just as individual components (Helm‚ 2008). The execution/evaluation action cycle (EEAC) provides results from a user’s point of view of an interface. It consists
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History Period 1 DBQ Essay The Cold War began over a period of several years following World War II as a result of increasing political and ideological tensions between the USSR and the USA; the weapons used were political and technological‚ in that many different types of strategies were utilized. Speeches given by world leaders provide evidence of the escalation of tensions between the two countries. The arms race played a major part in the Cold War‚ but other factors contributed to the struggle
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If you’re a smartphone user‚ you’re undoubtedly familiar with the pain of pinching and scrolling your way across full-size websites on your phone. Chances are you’ve also attempted to visit a website on a mobile device only to realize that it won’t open because it was built with Flash and your phone doesn’t support it. Now imagine it’s your potential customers pinching‚ scrolling and muddling their way through your website. If your website isn’t optimized for mobile‚ it could have a greater impact
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War is Kind: Stephen Crane I. In the introduction the poem opens up with the speaker mentioning Maiden in this poem simply refers to a girl A. The man tells the girl not to cry because war is kind. Even though this is to sound ironic the phrase really means the opposite of what the character is trying to tell the girl. B. The maiden had been crying for her dead lover who had thrown his hands towards the sky‚ in which a horse appears to get scared and leaves the man alone on his own
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Multiple Choice Questions 51. Which language is not a true object-oriented programming language? a.) VB.NET b.) VB 6 c.) C++ d.) C# e.) Java Answer: b Level: Easy Section: 6-1 Page: 107 52. A GUI: a.) uses buttons‚ menus‚ and icons. b.) should be easy for a user to manipulate. c.) stands for Graphic Use Interaction. d.) Both a and b. e.) All of the above. Answer: d Level: Moderate Section:
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And more children can open a web browser (25 percent) than can swim unaided (20 percent). The AVG study notes that "mothers aged 35 and over are slightly better at teaching their kids ’life skills‚’" a phrase it uses to describe all non-tech-dependant tasks such as writing down one’s name. I suspect this is because mothers aged 35 and over are less comfortable with the other skills measured in the survey -- playing computer games‚ opening web browsers‚ and making mobile phone calls (28
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The Economic benefits of war outweigh the costs. Discuss. The last century witnessed a proliferation of warfare unparalleled in the history of mankind‚ that same century however witnessed also an unparalleled expansion of human economic activity. The two would appear to be linked; war is fundamentally an economic activity. Fighting a war forces an economy to equip large numbers of men with a wide variety of equipment‚ in addition to building warships‚ warplanes and tanks. This equipment has to be
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Cold War The Cold War was a time of major conflict between the United States and the Soviet Union that started after World War Two. The Cold War dominated international affairs for many years and the space race and the arms race developed because of this competition. By the end of the 1980’s each side had spent trillions of dollars to possess nuclear weapons and the means of delivering these weapons on their enemies. Though many Americans were against the use of nuclear weapons‚ because of the
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