uban Missile Crisis: JFK's 1962 Speech and the Escalating Cold War Tensions
Text commentary - 3 pages - Modern history
"Discover the pivotal moment that brought the world to the brink of nuclear war. John F. Kennedy's 1962 speech reveals the escalating tensions between the United States and the Soviet Union, as Cuba becomes a strategic battleground. Learn how JFK's powerful address reaffirmed...
Post-Cold War Conflicts and Global Realignments
Course material - 138 pages - Modern history
The end of the Cold War marked a significant shift in global politics, with the Gulf War being the first major conflict of the new era, characterized by international cooperation and the emergence of new global balances.
How did Anthony Lake's ideas shape US strategy in the context of the immediate post-cold war period?
Presentation - 5 pages - Political science
This document is about Anthony's Lake contribution in US strategy post-cold war.
The Normative Role of the Cold War in Recent American History
Essay - 3 pages - Modern history
The Cold War was a period of tension that resulted from the conflict between the United States (capitalist) and the Soviet Union (communist) and their respective allies. This period has resulted in a lasting effect on the involved countries; it has influenced U.S. economic...
America's Post-Cold War Security
Tutorials/exercises - 2 pages - Political science
The Cold War was a prolonged period of political rivalry between the US and USSR and their allies, the Western Bloc and the Eastern Bloc, beginning in 1947 and ending in 1991. The term "cold war" refers to the absence of direct, large-scale warfare between the two...
Cold War: Nuclear Weapons and the Arms Race
Essay - 5 pages - Modern history
In this post-World War II era, cited by Karl T. Compton's 1952 Popular Mechanics article, there was notable scientific optimism, revealing a vision of unparalleled progress. Compton's deterministic perspective on scientific development, as shown in his forecasts for 2002, gave a...
The end of WWII and the Cold War
Worksheets - 3 pages - Modern history
This document is a course material on the end of WWII and the Cold War.
The United States and the World: The US and the Cold War (1945-1980)
Course material - 5 pages - Modern history
The goal of this document is to stress the main thrust of American strategy in the Cold War in order to understand the legacy of the Cold War on American foreign policy today. The main structures of US foreign policy and foreign policy establishment and instruments,...
The United States and the end of the Cold War (1989-1990)
Course material - 4 pages - Modern history
President George H. Bush was elected in November 1988. He had to steer the end of the Cold War, 1989-1990. His team was different from Reagan's, although he had been his vice-president: there were no neo-conservatives; the new Administration was more adept of Kissinger's prudent...
The Cold War (1947-1991)
Course material - 3 pages - Modern history
The expression used for the first time in 1947 and popularized by the journalist Walter Lippmann is the name given to the international relationships between 1947 and 1991. It was a military and ideological conflict concerning every aspect (economy, ideology, propaganda, science, conquest of...
The figure of communism and Us-USSR bilateral diplomatic relations during the cold war : a conflict analysis
Essay - 5 pages - Modern history
The Cold War is, together with the World Wars, probably the most important episode in Europe's and the United States XXth century diplomatic history. The conflict has an impressive amount of dimensions, motives and outcomes, most of which are probably still unknown. This...
The period from 1948 to 1953 was a phase of high intensity in Cold War history and decisively shaped the future of the European continent. Analyse the events in Europe in this period and their meaning for European integration.
Essay - 3 pages - Modern history
After World War II, Europe was destroyed and two superpowers emerged; the United States and the USSR. The United States was the only state to have the atomic bomb and used the massive weapon against Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japan, and the USSR was important because of the fight against Nazi...
What is the most important event during the Cold War ? - Author's opinion
Essay - 2 pages - Modern history
The Cold War is an ideological clash between the Western capitalist block - the "Free World" led by the USA- and the Eastern communist block lead by mother Russia USSR. The two blocks fought by proxy from 1947 to 1990, through violent crisis, such as the Korean War from 1951...
Cold war: More often than not, superpowers, rather than causing regional conflicts, were reluctantly drawn into them
Essay - 7 pages - Political science
The Cold War, besides being fought initially against an European-dominated background, was also extended to the Third World later. This globalization of the Cold War is inextricably linked to the entanglement of the two superpowers, the United States (US) and the...
Fidel Castro's communist regime during the Cold War
Case study - 4 pages - Political science
During the Cold War emerged the communism in the island of Cuba with the takeover of a charismatic leader, Fidel Castro. After his «coup d'état» which has removed Batista, the former lawyer managed to impose his vision to Cuban people and to the world; despite American attempts...
Rethinking the Cold War- The intellectuals during the Cold War
Case study - 4 pages - Political science
After the Second World War, the Liberation unifies the intellectual world in the devastated vectoring Europe countries. The few intellectuals who had collaborated or had published about the beneficial effects of the arrests against Jews had been sentenced, such as Robert Brasillach, shot...
Reagan and the end of the Cold War: help or hindrance
Case study - 6 pages - Social, moral & civic education
The ending of the cold war is recorded in history as a period where moral, economic and ethical consideration overruled ideological and cultural inheritance and thus saved the world from another world war. In history and international studies, the end of the cold...
Rethinking the Cold War by Natalia Narotchnitskaïa
Case study - 3 pages - Political science
Natalia Alekseïevna Narotchnitskaïa, born in 1948, is Alexeï Leontievitch Narotchnitskii's daughter; a historian specialized in Russian history during the 19th century. Natalia Alekseïevna Narotchnitskaïa, who has a doctorate in history from the State Institute of international relations in...
Cold War essay: Why did the Cold War begin in Europe (1945-1949)?
Case study - 1 pages - Political science
Following the Bolshevik Revolution in 1917, Vladimir Lenin caused the West to mistrust Russia: he abandoned WWI with the Brest-Litovsk Treaty, reneged on all debts of the Tsar, privatized industry, and established the Cominterm. Communism, the guiding principle of the USSR, was incompatible with...
Analyze the evolution of the Cold War between 1945 and 1949
Thesis - 5 pages - Modern history
After the end of the Second World War, the victorious Allies split the post-war world between them. With each superpower focusing on their personal ideological interests, historians have found critical information that would foreshadow future tensions between the Big Three. The...
Ending Cold War legacies and facing new threats together: Is there a foreseeable future for Russia within NATO?
Case study - 4 pages - International relations
In the light of recent developments and Russia's Foreign Policy turn of the past decade, this study will try to weigh out the country's position toward the West, and more specifically toward the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO). Will the future confirm what some observers interpreted as...
To what extent has European integration promoted security and stability in post-Cold War Europe?
Internship report - 5 pages - European union
According to E. Bomber and A. Stubb (2003) , the European integration is ‘a process by which sovereign states relinquish (surrender or pool) national sovereignty to maximize their collective power and interests.' We notice that European integration involves different institutions where...
Was the Khrushchev period (1953-64) a period of thaw in the Cold War?
Thesis - 6 pages - Modern history
Since the start of the Cold War in 1945, it seemed as if both the USSR and the USA, the two most powerful and influential superpowers, were set to be opponents in the game for world domination. Indeed, as no actual fighting and direct collision between the two nations took place, it...
The period from 1948 to 1953 was a phase of high intensity in Cold War history and decisively shaped the future of the European continent. Analyse the events in Europe in this period and their meaning for European integration. - published: 29/09/2010
Essay - 3 pages - Modern history
After World War II, Europe was destroyed and two superpowers emerged; the United States and the USSR. The United States was the only state to have the atomic bomb and used the massive weapon against Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japan, and the USSR was important because of the fight against Nazi...
The Conference on Security and Co-operation in Europe (CSCE) in the post cold-war Europe - publié le 29/09/2010
Essay - 5 pages - International relations
The CSCE (Conference on Security and Co-operation in Europe) was born with the Helsinki final act in 1975, as the territorial statu quo seemed definitely taken for granted by both the communist block and western countries. On the 1st of August 1975, 35 heads of states from Europe, the US and...
Was signal and image intelligence really more important than human intelligence during the Cold War?
Essay - 5 pages - Modern history
With the impact of World War 2, ?Intelligence', has acquired a different position from the war perspective. Undeniably, intelligence has gained importance as it has been used as a key element in the war process. Additionally, it helps in developing news techniques and...
During the Cold War, what role did oil play in driving western intervention to the Middle East? - publié le 15/01/2009
Essay - 5 pages - Modern history
After the Second World War in 1945, a new world order came up: Western Europe had to recover from the damages the war caused, and the US and the Soviet Union were competing against each other for power in a Cold War period. During this era, lasting up to the collapse...
Explain and Illustrate the concept of "limited war" in the context of the cold war - publié le 15/01/2009
Essay - 6 pages - International relations
After 1945, the parallel rises of US and USSR, emerged two superpowers in competition at all levels, fighting for hegemony on the post war world. Characterized by the possession of the nuclear weapon, obtained and used in 1945 by the United States and developed in USSR in 1949, this new...
What drove western intervention in the Middle East during the Cold War?
Essay - 4 pages - Modern history
The Middle East was one of the most covet zones in the past century. Located at the crossroad between western nation, the "Third World" and the communist bloc, it played a strategic role during the colonial era, the Second World War and mainly during the cold war. Because of...
Mozambique: a cold war conflict? - publié le 15/01/2009
Essay - 4 pages - Medieval history
The colonization of Mozambique by Portugal began in the 15th century. The first settling was made in 1498, near the mouth of Zambezi River by Vasco de Gama himself. A few years later, the Portuguese founded a city in Lourenço Marques bay, nowadays known as Maputo. Thanks to the trade of slaves...
