Dean‚ Robert D Enloe‚ Cynthia. Maneuvers: The International Politics of Militarizing Women ’s Lives. Berkeley‚ 2000. The Morning After: Sexual Politics at the End of the Cold War Fursenko‚ Aleksandr‚ and Naftali‚ Timothy. "One Hell of a Gamble": Khrushchev‚ Castro‚ and Kennedy‚ 1958–1964. New York‚ 1997. Gaddis‚ John Lewis Raack‚ Richard C. "The Cold War Revisionists Kayoed: New Books Dispel More Historical Darkness." World Affairs 162:2 (Fall 1999): 43–62. Rowley‚ Monica Weinstein‚ Allen‚ and Vassiliev
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The history of Spanish culture and their historic events have been captured through art for centuries. Photography is one form of art that has documented and symbolized historic events that are still used today as historical documents. A Cuban photographer‚ Alberto Diaz Gutierrez‚ also known as Alberto Korda‚ famously documented the events of the Cuban Revolution. Alberto Korda became the world’s most famous Cuban photographer for his photography‚ documenting history of the revolution with over 55
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₁autonomous republic within the state of Ukraine. The eastern shore of Crimea touches some land of Russia. Crimea was first part of the Russian empire. But then how is Crimea part of Ukraine? Crimea only became part of Ukraine when soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev gave the peninsula to his native land in 1954. In 1991‚ Crimea finally became an independent Ukraine. Despite that nearly 60 % of the population in Ukraine identify themselves as Russians. In 1991 the fall of the Soviet Union also brought the
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John Lewis Gaddis is a history professor at Yale University‚ lecturing an undergraduate class every Monday and Wednesday on the Cold War. He wrote The Cold War: A New History based on questions some of his prior students had on the Cold War‚ as well as making a shorter‚ more understanding book for students to read. Gaddis provides a fantastic overview of the Cold War but could have organized the information a lot better. For instance‚ if he put it in chronological order rather than jumping back
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hostilities ceased because of the relationship developed between Khrushchev and Kennedy. The Realist perspective argues the heavy emphasis both sides placed on expanding nuclear capabilities to serve as a deterrent resulted in a
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Ukraine: The New Cold War Heats Up The Strategic Role of Natural Gas and Pipeline Routes By Gilbert Mercier Global Research‚ March 09‚ 2014 newsjunkiepost.com Region: Europe‚ Russia and FSU Theme: US NATO War Agenda In-depth Report: UKRAINE REPORT 319 39 4 520 Some Western Europeans say‚ jokingly‚ that at least winter is almost over‚ and if “Putin shuts off the gas‚” they will not have to be cold for long. But as the Ukrainian crisis amplifies‚ European laughter will be short lived
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the Cuban Missile Crisis‚ New York: Longman. Buchanan‚ P. (2008) An Amicus Brief for Neville‚ http://www.creators.com/opinion/pat-buchanan/an-amicus-brief-for-neville.html . Date accessed 10/5/10. Dobbs‚ M. (2008) One Minute to Midnight: Kennedy‚ Khrushchev‚ and Castro on the Brink of Nuclear War‚ New York: Alfred A‚ Knopf. Faber‚ D. (2008) Munich: The 1938 Appeasement Crisis‚ New York: Simon & Schuster. Johnson‚ D. (2004) Overconfidence and War: The Havoc and Glory of Positive Illusions‚ Cambridge:
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When Americans think of the term “space exploration” they typically associate it with “the race for space” and recall a time when the nation was consumed by the thought of rockets and beating the Soviet Union to the final frontier. While the period of time‚ coined as “The Space Race‚” has since passed‚ space exploration continues to impact people around the world. Many Americans fail to understand that the benefits of space exploration extend far beyond the people involved with counting down the
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missile crisis. The Cuban missile crisis was when the Soviet Union attempted to place nuclear warheads in Cuba. President John F. Kennedy agreed to place a naval blockade around Cuba to prevent the Soviet threat. This lasted 13 days in which Nikita Khrushchev‚ Stalin’s successor‚ agreed to remove the warheads from Cuba as long as president Kennedy agreed to not invade Cuba. This was one instant in which the U.S enforced containment. Another instant was the Berlin airlift‚ in which the U.S provided
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The Cold War: Communist China The Cold War was a tension-filled period that started when the anti-communist beliefs and the anti-democracy beliefs clashed. The main conflict in the Cold War was between the Soviet Union and the United States of America‚ and it lasted from 1947 to 1991 (44 years). From the USA point of view‚ communism was an idea that wasn’t right. The country believed that the world would be a much better place if communism was replaced by democracy. However‚ the countries that supported
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