so it destabilized the sovereign nation. To many‚ this was the bad side of the cold war because rivalry among powerful nations caused regional wars that created ideological differences that have not be resolved to date. Even though it seemed necessary‚ America’s involvement also seemed unnecessary because there probably could have been better ways to intervene. On the other hand‚ there is an opinion that the cold war created some fundamental changes that defined the American societal evolution. Cultural
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The War on Drugs had invested large amounts of money into this policy when the money could have been spent more wisely. When President Nixon had declared the War on Drugs policy‚ he sought to defeat this enemy by fighting both the supply and demand parties. In doing this‚ Nixon launched a immense interdiction effort in Mexico also known to come the drug enforcement agency in 1973. That had meant that President Nixon required Mexico to regulate their farmers or people who grew marijuana. In result
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Corruption has been in the government in many forms since our founding but not until the 70’s has such corruption unfolded before our very eyes. Public distresses that caused an uproar in the media such as Watergate or some of the scandalous accusations at president 42. Other forms of corruption have been seen in every presidency since the Nixon administration and probably in every presidency before. This brief paper intends to look at some of them‚ both the obvious and the not-so-well known. Watergate
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THE COLD WAR in the 1960’s * MAD Theory (Mutually Assured Destruction) * The Cuban Missile Crisis (Oct. 1962) * Why the crisis happened? (Khrushchev‚ Fidel Castro & Cuba) * Was JFK a hawk or a dove? * Impacts of the crisis: flexible response & trend toward détente * Missles out of Cuba * Missles out of Germany * Can’t invade Cuba with force. THE WAR IN VIETNAM * It was America’s longest war * Some numbers: $ 150 billion ($600
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Name: Course: Instructor: Date: An Explication of James Weldon Johnson’s Poem‚ Since You Went Away The poem‚ Since You Went Away (Sence You Went Away)‚ depicts James Weldon Johnson as one who reckoned with the fact that the one person (or object) that someone loves most can make everything seem so beautiful when they are around and so out of order when they are gone. All through the poem‚ James Weldon Johnson paints images that would‚ in normal occasions‚ be used to express an air of contentment
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Nixon knew a military victory in Vietnam was no longer possible. He wanted to end the war as quickly and as soon as possible. He wrote that‚ “without continuous and massive aid from either or both of the Communist giants‚ the leaders of North Vietnam would not have been able to carry on the war for more than a few months.” He planned to conduct a two prong agenda to end the war; first by changing the relationships between the DRV‚ USSR‚ and China and second‚ by a massive expansion of the war to
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People saw the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan as one of the final crucial events in the cold war.1 It was Dec of 1979‚ when the Soviets 40th army invaded Afghanistan. At the time‚ America was charming countries like Pakistan‚ Israel‚ and others‚ therefore Russia sought to spread their reign of Communism throughout Afghanistan. It all started when the PDPA (Peoples Democratic Party of Afghanistan) which was a communist party that had close ties with Soviet Russia‚ was close to being vanquished so
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Due to events in Greece in 1946‚ where communists were trying to overthrow the monarchy‚ the Truman Doctrine was announced. As mentioned above‚ according to the Percentages Agreement the British were responsible for oversight of this country. However British Foreign Minister – Ernest Bevin – appealed to the USA and Truman announced in March 1947 that the USA would “support free peoples who are resisting subjugation by armed minorities or by outside pressures”1. This announcement made it clear that
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The Cold War transpired during the mid-twentieth century. As a result‚ The United States feared the possibility of a surprise attack from the Soviets and the doctrine of communism coming to America. As President Truman declared‚ “Education is our first line of defense (Brown‚ 1988‚ p.74).” In this essay I will argue that the government transformed public education’s curriculum and structure into a survival program to prepare the nation for the potential of nuclear war. Additionally‚ increased federal
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Indeed‚ Truman was the initiator of the “containment” policy‚ applied during the entire Cold War. His main actions were the German airlift‚ Korean War‚ the creation of the NATO and the creation of NSC-68 (which recommended increasing the military budget three-fold). Then‚ Eisenhower greatly expanded this policy. More than containment‚ Eisenhower’s Secretary of
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