Essays on Cold War

The Vietnam War is one of the most controversial and complicated military actions in American history, a confluence of a number of factors that stemmed from post-World War II ideas about America’s place in the world, its relationship with Communism and the Soviet Union, and the increasing presence of the news media in the field of battle. In the Cold War following World War II, in which America turned its attention (and its weapons) to the cultural and ideological threat of Communism. However, the staggering defeats US military forces experienced, combined with the malaise and resistance provided by ...

Sergio E. Avilés’ Einen Koffer is only six minutes long, but it is an effective film with a strong message. The film depicts a Mexican man, hoping to cross the border between Mexico and the United States in the hopes of rejoining his family. He is walking along the large wall that separates the two countries, with a recording of President Ronald Reagan’s 1987 “Tear Down this Wall” speech playing in the background. Comparing the two scenarios of the immigrant’s situation and Reagan’s speech is largely what makes this short film so powerful. The man ...

Literature Review

This section review literature on the responsibility of Western Powers on Civil Wars as well as Rebellion within Eastern and Central Africa. From the reviewed materials, it is evident that the style of Western administration on the African continent left African countries unprepared economically as well as politically for independence. For that reason, it undermined the state of security within most countries from their start of self-governance. The influence of Europe within Africa has contributed significantly in establishing conditions within many countries for rebellion and civil conflict to take place. The Western powers treat African states as strategic economic ...

The Day the Earth Stood Still

Research Question: How do the apocalyptic tensions in the SF films Things to Come and The Day the Earth Stood Still reflect Sontag’s “Imagination of Disaster?”

Films: Things to Come, dir: William Cameron Menzies (UK, 1936).

The Day the Earth Stood Still, dir: Robert Wise (United States, 1951). In terms of classic science fiction, William Cameron Menzies’ Things to Come and Robert Wise’s The Day the Earth Stood Still stand firm as examples of the ways in which humanity used science fiction in film to explore the anxieties that came with things like war, apocalyptic destruction, and the possibility of death through our own command of technology. ...

I think it is very premature to speak about the end of the era of America’s supremacy in the world. Here is a list and analysis of reasons why I am convinced that the story goes exactly this way. Speaking about supremacy, even in the broadest definitions, without laying them down to specific examples we have to take into consideration all aspects of power, i.e. economic, political, military etcetera. Speaking about America, let’s analyze its economy first. According to numerous reputable ratings issued every year America is the first economy in the world, competed by China and ...

In the middle of the 20th century, after the World War II, all countries were highly disturbed and scared of a new war which could appear. United States, being a powerful country, the influence and power of which helped to end the WWII, were a kind of an enemy for the other countries, who lost at the war. After World War II United States and its enemies and Soviet Union were in the state of a Cold War. According to John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum “Soldiers of the Soviet Union and the United States did not do ...

Prehistory

Soviet suppression of the anti-socialist events in Poland and Hungary in 1956 showed that Western hopes for Soviet Union easing its foreign policy were in vain. As well, the victory of Nasser in events related to the nationalization of the Suez Canal, contributed to a further change in the correlation of forces in the Middle East in favor of the national liberation movement (Hahn, 2001). Arab East - most consistent followers of anti-imperialist positions as well as the Arabian Peninsula started to show the rise of political movements. The British and French imperialists found themselves pushed off to the ...

War historians consider it appropriate to refer to the Korean War as the ‘Unknown War’ or ‘Forgotten War’. This in essence due to that fact that up until the collapse of the USSR and subsequent declassification of Soviet documents on the war, the events leading to the conflict were largely shrouded in mystery. On the 25th of June, 1950, the North Korean military attacked South Korea and as such, varying motivations for the war led many countries to support either the North or South. This may shed more light as to the underlying causes of the war and more ...

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Abstract This research paper shades light on the Saudi Arabian-Iranian conflict and its severity on the involved parties’ economic stature and international relations. The research paper elaborates the background of the Saudi Arabian- Iranian conflict and the factor that have resulted to the spiraling of the conflict, such as proxy conflict. Moreover, this research presents areas that are key to understanding the conflict and thus, it provides information that proves to be fundamental to the formulation of solutions to the historic rivalry between the two antagonizing parties. Furthermore crucial research questions are presented in this proposal, for steering the ...

Introduction

The globalization concept comprises of a variety of meanings which reflect on the diminishing significance of state boundaries together with the rise of the global economic, as well as, social processes. Globalization analysts have put their primary focus on issues e.g. expansion of the global trade, increase in transnational entities and even the increasing tensions between cultures and metropolitan practices. A fundamental element in this transformative process has been the implementation, as well as, the development of the satellite telecommunications system. The telecommunication satellite, an integral element of globalization, was developed in the early 1960s by Marshall McLuhan, who ...

Relation to neo-Marxism

Introduction The Cuban missile crisis marked one of the most turbulent times in our history. It was sparked by the deployment of nuclear missiles by the Soviet Union, in Cuba, in 1962. The world was on the brink of nuclear disaster. This paper seeks to analyze the underlying reasons, the influence of neo-Marxism and its role in the development and exacerbation of the Cuban missile crisis.

What is neo-Marxism

Before we embark on the underlying causes of the Cuban missile crisis, it is important to understand the basic differences between tenets of old school Marxism and neo-Marxism – its evolution, historical impact and ...

At 5 hours 30 minutes AM on July 16, 1945 the United States tested an atomic bomb in the desert of Alamogordo in New Mexico. The test was a triumphant success. The explosion was stronger than expected - it was an explosion equivalent to about 20 kilotons of trinitrotoluol (Rhodes, 1986). The US President Harry S. Truman was to decide what US policy should be carried out toward nuclear bomb (Bernstein, 1975). Truman knew nothing about the bomb until he became the president, and he was informed about it by Henry L. Stimson, the US Secretary of Defense, and ...

Ever since the Second World War, different nations have come together with the aim of creating some form of unity. The various organizations formed by the different countries have mainly aimed at ensuring peace, justice, and economic stability among the countries. These organizations have also played a major role in uniting countries that were once enemies, as well as creating the notion of a citizen of the world. The feeling of being a citizen of the world has promoted more instances of globalization as different groups of people have learned to live with one another. In his Berlin speech ...

This brief essay examines ethical considerations surrounding two military and politically-charged events, one in 1960 and the other in 1968. Ethical guidelines help military personnel find practical and professional ways to face moral challenges and dilemmas “to enable and motivate them to act professionally in the discharge of their professional obligations” (Cook & Syse, 2010, p. 119). The U-2 incident occurred as the U.S. was gathering data on Soviet missile sites. President Eisenhower affirmed the value and continued use of U-2 flights for important reconnaissance data needed to negotiate with the Russians who were withholding vital weapons information. With the ...

In order to show how the possession of atomic weapons influences the strength of the United States in the world developments and the outcome of many processes in which the United States as a nuclear power state was taking part it is vital to dig a little bit deeper into the prehistory of the United States’ acquisition of the nuclear weapons. It is important in order to understand why it was significant for the state to acquire such weapon in the first place and what international developments led the state to the decision to. For the foreign policy of ...

I. Introduction Since the formation of the state of Kosovo, there have been disputes about the legitimacy of the state—some do not recognize the international legitimacy of this state to the current day. Kosovo faces a number of issues that are inherited from its long history of conflict; one of the key problems faced by the country and the future leadership of the country is the problem of security. Because of the conflicted nature of the territory, Kosovo faces significant internal and external pressures (Alexander 14-19; Shaw and Štiks 91). The entire region is war-torn, and this conflict ...

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I. The NSC 68 and The USA Patriot Act The Second World War brought about another setting war that was uprising to fill the void Germany left both in Europe and in Asia. Because of such a phenomenon, it was observed by many of the citizens that another factor threatened global security and that would be the domineering factors of both communism and capitalism. The communism that was supposedly dominated by the Soviet Union challenged much of the US territories and Europe and in Asia. Because of the defeat faced by many of the US allies, Truman, who ...

Abstract

World War I was one of the worst modern warfare with regards to the amount of destruction it caused. Its impact was based on the use of advanced weapons able to cause massive damage, the involvement of a huge population in the war, huge investments, economic sabotage, and barbarity. Nevertheless, it helped to end the war, allow for negotiations, solve border conflicts, and establish the League of Nations to manage global peace. However, it failed to achieve permanent agreements and left different countries dissatisfied and ready to revenge on their adversaries. There was also antagonism between the negotiators due to ...

Introduction

Over the years, the United States has gained global military, economic, cultural, scientific, and political dominance, which has allowed the country to have a significant influence on other nations. For instance, American influence and power have extended across different countries such as Iraq, spreading democracy and liberty through military invasion and the War on Terror. In addition, the United States’ political influence has been strengthened by its financial support to foreign countries through the U.S. foreign aid. For instance, Buchan argues that the U.S. has played a significant role in enhancing the relationships of the free nations of southern and Pacific ...

International Relations of the Pacific Rim

Question 1 While the realism theory represents a spectrum of opinions or ideas which tend to circulate around four central pillars of political groups. That is egoism, international anarchy and power politics the liberal approach on the other seems to focus on a broader picture in terms of issues concerning enlightenment. It seeks to find a long lasting peace and cooperation in the international platform. Constructivist theory states that both political and social aspects are historically and politically linked. These theories are of the opinion that the situation in the pacific is inevitable from the human consequence but rather it is a ...

Introduction

There are different countries that were affected by the Cold War that came after the Second World War. Cuba is an island country in the Southern America. This country was involved in the Cold War in different ways. The country allied itself to the Soviet Union and was used as a place where missiles that were directed to the United States of America were kept. This instance caused the country to be a player in the War. The diplomatic relations between the country and the United States of America also deteriorated.

There were different changes that occurred in the country ...

Détente

Conflicts in ideologies defined the Western democracies and the Communist powers in the 1960s and 1970s. It resulted in a nuclear arms battle between the US and the Soviet Union. Consequently, the leaders of either nation embraced dangerous policies that posed threats to the security of the two states, as well as the whole world. Détente brought changes in policy on both states thus redefining the US-Russia relationship (Duiker and Spielvogel, 2014).

In 1964, Leonid Brezhnev came into power in the Soviet Union after the removal of Nikita Khrushchev from power. Working with Alexei Kosygin, ...

After the recent presidential pools in the US and the retention of Mr. Osama as the American president, much was written in the media as pertains to his re-election. Below is a discussion of some of the terms and phrases that might were widely used by most of the dailies.

- Second-term (Clymer Para 1): in the political context in America, this term is used to describe a situation where an individual, especially a president, is elected for the second and final term of two years at the helm of the country’s politics. However, it has to be noted ...

In the article The Collapse of Communism in Eastern Europe by Carol Skalnif Leff, the repercussions of the cold war in Eastern Europe have been analysed. The Communist Society of Europe was jolted by the Cold War; the emergence and then failure of the Soviet Unoin lead to a change in the societal set up in Europe, especially in Eastern Europe. Many European states were looking for integration in the global economy and with the Western Europe as well. These nations experienced economic depression as they were not ready for the transition. These European nations lobbied to get into International ...

The world has changed significantly since the 1990s. While changes in technology may be the most obvious, America’s place in the world has shifted several times from the 1990s to today. From the nearly fifty years between the immediate post World War II years to the fall of the Soviet Union 1991, the political world could put into three categories, the first world, second world, and third world. The category reflected a nation’s alignment in the Cold War between the United States and the Soviet Union. The Cold War was the single most important political situation of its ...

Natural selection can be referred to as a process through which biological traits turn either more or less common within a population as a function of the impact of hereditary traits on the differential reproductive victory of organisms’ interaction with their surroundings. It is a major evolution mechanism. Charles Darwin popularized the term natural selection with an intention to have it compared with artificial selection, now referred to as selective breeding.

There exists variation within every organism’s populations. This takes place partly since random mutations happen in the genome of an organism, and these mutations can be acquired by offspring. All ...

Peacekeeping

Since the great wars, the international community knew it was crucial to prevent the onset of another war as the conflicts had shook the balance of power and destroyed both infrastructure and lives for the sake of power. With the establishment of the United Nations after the Second World War, it was argued that the organization would become a beacon of peace and intervene once conflict brews in a region. Peacekeeping operations, in this end, would enable the international community to stop the progression of conflict that may threaten the rest of the world. While the thought of peacekeeping is ideal, ...

The inclusion of NORAD site remarkably contributes to the understanding of the late Cold War. It is dates world war in the 1960s and 1970s when USSR focused on establishing intercontinental and sea-launched flying missiles.NORAD was in full control of all the operations that were launched during this time. NORAD was managed all the air planed missiles space operations. The site reveals more on the plans and operations that were launched to accomplish the Cold War missions by the USSR.

Section I: progressive review of JFK and the Unspeakable: Why He died and why it Matters

It was anthropologist Mary Douglas who observed that Human is at heart, creatures of denial, they crave for stability especially when their notions are threatened, rearrange the way they conceive issues and deny the challenges. In her book, JFK and the unspeakable: Why He Died and Why It Matter, Douglas offers an incisive and searing diagnosis of the various ills that marked the death of once an American icon and human activist John F. Kennedy. In an articulate voice, the well known anthologist, advocate and writer in different universities offers a compressive scanning on the episodes that marked the termination ...

Political Implications of Sino-Saudi Relations to the US and Regional Affairs

Abstract As the largest and most influential nations in the Middle East, Saudi Arabia has been considered a valuable asset to any country wishing to have influence in the tightly-knitted Middle East. Many nations throughout the years have tried to sway the Saudi government and monarchy into entering diplomatic and economic partnerships with them in order to gain access to the region’s oil reserves and establish their partnership but only a few have been successful. One of these successful nations is the People’s Republic of China, which has strong diplomatic, economic and social partnerships with Saudi. China has been ...

Introduction

This dissertations main porpoise and focus will be to address if the British armed forces will have any role in future international conflict. It will address the beginning of the British Empire all the way to the empire that we know today. After this we will look at concerns and threats that the British might face as well as the rest of the world and how this could have an impact on the British role in any future conflict. After having discussed all of the concerns we will look at the ability through advances in technology for any involvement ...

Abstract

Video games have evolved a thousand times since their first introduction to consumers. They have increased not only in price but in intensity. Violence seems to be a central theme in some games and with that there is the consequential impact on today’s youth. This paper does not aim to analyze how kids and adults value (or fail to value) life after hours of killing in video games. It aims to simply describe two popular selections that have quite a few things in common, despite their obvious differences. Call of Duty allows for traveling through time from World War II to ...

The 1980s were a challenging time for the Soviet Union. Industrial stagnation, inefficient economy, low quality and deficit of the consumer goods undermined ideological pressure of the Communist Party, already entered into a deep crisis. The conflict between economic and technological growth needs and the current administrative-command management system was exacerbated. The country leaders have made ​​decisions aimed at overcoming the dictates of departmental bureaucracy, at developing economic methods of management. However, these solutions remained on paper. The USSR were in need of structural political and economic reforms.

Politburo (Executive Committee) members leading the regime for many years were approaching a ...

National Reaction to the Cuban Missile Crisis

This paper seeks to outline sources that review the Cuban Missile Crisis. The sources give a background and reasons that stirred a national reaction during the cold war. The Americans had made an attempt under President John Fitzgerald’s administration to overthrow Cuban President Fidel Castro. This led to a bad blood between the two countries. Cubans did not understand the reason of the attack at Bay of Pigs. The American had their naval base at Guantanamo bay in Cuba and had always had a good relationship with Cubans. Following the attack, the Cuban government sought for protection from its ally the Soviet ...

Though the USSR collapsed in 1991, the effects of its fall are still felt up to present. Scholars predict that these effects will be felt decades to come and it is only after this period that the real effects of the union’s collapse be felt (Zubok, 2008, p. 15).

One advantage of the fall of the USSR is that after its collapse the USA became the sole superpower in the world. During the time when the USSR was existent, the world was bipolar as the union and the USA formed the leading states globally. Subsequently, after the collapse ...

“Nuclear weapons made the world a safer place during the Cold War.”

The answer to the above phrase is Yes and No. Yes because although most of the antagonist conventional forces in the European region had numerical superiority they could not attack countries that had nuclear weapons. Due to the destructive aspect of nuclear weapons, states that did not have such weapons did not want to provoke countries that had nuclear weapons for fear of possible reprisal involving nuclear weapons. Accordingly, countries that possessed nuclear weapons refrained from triggering conventional military engagements with other countries that had nuclear weapons because they feared that such hostilities could escalate to a nuclear level. As ...

The Soviet War in Afghanistan was more related to the Cold War and not the two World Wars. During both wars, Afghanistan was largely neutral. According to Duiker & Spielvogel (2014), Afghanistan remained neutral during World War I under the rule of Amir Habibullah Khan. Similarly, the government of King Zahir Shah did proclaim official and neutrality in the World War II conflict immediately after its outbreak. Therefore, it was the cold war intrigues that led to the invasion of Afghanistan by the Soviet Union. The US had made progress in the Middle East having courted Saudi Arabia, Egypt, ...

ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY: PEACEKEEPING

Bellamy, Alex, and Paul Williams. 2010. Understanding Peacekeeping. Cambridge: Polity.

This secondary source is written by Bellamy and Williams highlights the history and nature of peacekeeping operations since the establishment of the United Nations in 1945 up to the 21st century. The book is well-documented in the extent that it also includes the types of peace operations and the challenges peacekeepers today face regarding its operations.

Christoff, Joseph. 2007. Peacekeeping: Observations on Costs, Strengths, and Limitations of U.S. and UN Operations. Washington, D.C.: United States Government Accountability Office.

This report or testimony of the US Director of International Affairs ...

Question Number One

The realist international relations theory stipulates that a competitive self-interest is the main driving force of world politics. The theory is based on premises that the international political system is anarchic. States are the most important players in world politics and they tend to seek self-interest and survival is the major concern of all states. It has been theorized that “nations dwell in perpetual anarchy for no central authority imposes limits on the pursuit of sovereign interests” (Oye, 1). Anarchy stems from the fact that there is no common or central government in world politics (Axelrod and Keohane, 226). ...

The story of Jesus of Nazareth is one that is difficult to tell in written words, let alone in film. To be sure, it is not hallowed ground – the Roman Catholic Church permits these adaptations freely, not like Islamic institutions who are sensitive to adaptations of their own prophet Mohammed. However, there appears a number of constraints and restrictions that are otherwise absent if one makes a conventional film with a conventional character in its narrative center. For one, the director is constrained with telling the story faithfully to Jesus’s biblical sources. The scriptwriter, on the other hand, has the ...

America is a vast continent with a number of events that mark its history. In seeking to understand this continent, there are those major events that an individual has to understand in depth. These include the war and other notable events worth noting. While America is synonymous with world class power, its history is characterized by both positive and negative events, which take landmark positions in its timeline. This situation being the case, and war is among the primary events, albeit negative, on which the history of America stands. This paper endeavors to explain and illustrate why and how to understand ...

The political concept of realism dates back to the 17th century and is associated with historic figures such as Hobbes and Machiavelli. Its main premise is the international community is always in a state of anarchy because each nation determinedly pursues things for its self-interest, whether it be for financial, political or social resources. Idealism is the complete opposite of realism. A political idealist would focus more on the individual and an international politics, would view the world as composed of many different groups, organizations and people that can all come together through cooperation and mutual respect. Woodrow Wilson and ...

How revolutionary was the Reagan Revolution and how was it revolutionary?

The presidency of Ronald Reagan was known as the “Reagan Revolution.” How revolutionary it was depends on the opinion of the people. During his presidency, President Reagan caused some political realignment in the United States of America, and all over the world, as well. Reagan’s administration, credited with the fall of the Soviet Union, and the end of Cold war. President Reagan led the uni-polar world associated with a superpower of the United States.

He gained a 64 percent approval rating after his term as the president, and this rating was one of the highest ratings for a president who ...

Why did the Cold War start and how did it develop over its first three decades?

In 1945, the Cold War started after the World War II or WWII. The cold war as a state of extremely political hostility among countries known as a Propaganda War and the cold war were between Russia and some of the Western countries. The nuclear weapon existence led to the development of the Cold War.

How did different presidential administrations, from Truman to Nixon handle Cold War affairs?

There were different ways of the presidential administrations approaches from Truman to Nixon. They handled the Cold War differently with different pursuance of policy containment, and the mentality approaches to Communism differs.

How did these approaches affect foreign policy?

Since the beginning of the Cold War, the battle against Communism made a huge impact ...

The cold war between US and USSR ended in 1991 after the disintegration of USSR. The world changed from a bipolar world to a unipolar world, and US became the only super power. Disintegration of Russia has given birth to several independent Central Asian States, still under the Russian influence but has the possibility of turning sides towards US. During the cold war, it was only the danger of mutually assured destruction through nuclear war between the two superpowers, however, the world today is perhaps a much lesser safe place due to the danger of nuclear proliferation, fear of total destruction through ...

- What were Marshal McLuhan’s key conceptual theories to understanding electronic media? How have they influenced our present thinking about visual media practices and their impact on society today?

Marshall Macluhan (1911-1980) was a Canadian public intellectual, philosopher and communication theorist. McLuhan’s key conceptual theories to understanding electronic media were that the medium which is the message is an extension of the self (Television enables “far-seeing”, telephone enables “far-hearing”) (Gitelman, 25). He states that this changes the human senses to the extent if human beings being unable to tell what have been displaced. His basic concept is that communication technology shapes human perception and cognition. For instance print made possible the western society characterized by democracy, capitalism, individualism and nationalism (Gitelman, 27). McLuhan’s conceptual theories ...

John F. Kennedy: Annotated Bibliography

Dallek, R. (2003). An Unfinished Life: John F. Kennedy, 1917-1963. New York: Little, Brown and Company. In this book written by renowned biographer Robert Dallek, he takes another look at what kind of person President Kennedy was, tackling issues such as his health, love life, presidential appointments and even his policies. Dallek had also expounded in an excellent narrative how JFK grew as a person people have admired even at the present day. The scope Dallek provided in the book would be used in two different ways. One, it would be used to provide insight as to what was ...

- What seems to have motivated the Israelis to create the separation wall, the settlements in the occupied West Bank, and the expansion in the East Jerusalem? What justifications are used for expansion?

Israelis created a separation wall within the West Bank for the purpose of security. Along with the security, the geopolitical and demographic and religious considerations were also there for building a separation wall. The separation wall ensures the justice, security and law and order situation in the city for the Jews. The city “Jerusalem” is controlled under the policies and strategies implemented in early 1960’s or ...

Section 1: Identification

1. Dust bowl, also called the dirty thirties: This was a period of a great dust storm that damaged the agriculture and ecology of Canadian and US large areas of treeless grassland during 1930’s period. The phenomenon was caused by a severe drought and the failure by farmers to apply preventive measures that could prevent wind erosion.

2. The Japanese American Internment was the period during the World War II, in 1942 where the US government ordered the relocation of over 110,000 people of Japanese origin who lived on the coast of the Pacific Ocean. The American government ordered the ...

President Harry Truman is widely thought to have begun the cold war. This is particularly because of his policy, which was referred to as the Truman doctrine. The doctrine largely related to how America would relate with Greece and Turkey. President Truman believed that the best way to contain the Soviet expansion, or communism, was to ensure that no state was vulnerable or unstable so as to fall prey to the soviet influence. Accordingly, in postulating the doctrine, President Truman convinced Congress to give financial aid to Turkey and Greece, which at that time were experiencing tough times.

Truman’ ...

We refer to the Cold War as the period between the end of World War II and the fall of the USSR in 1990. That is when two powerful countries emerged, one being the United States of America and the other being the communist USSR. So, when the end of militarization was expected, the American government presented the people with a new threat, claiming for many decades that another war was imminent. The USSR was presented as a new Hitler with expansionistic tendencies. This helped to justify American intervention abroad, like for example in Greece right after World War II and ...

Question 1: What are Fukuyama’s main points in his “end of history” thesis? Does he truly think there is an actual “end” to history?

Fukuyama’s main point in his “end of history” argues that the existent aspect of liberal democracy coupled with the free market capitalism of the west and its way of life may indicate the end of the human socio-cultural evolution thus become the ultimate form of human authority. As such, Fukuyama believes that the contention and progression of human history that has been existent through the struggle of ideologies following the fall of the Berlin Wall and the Cold War is no longer in existent because the world has embraced liberal democracy.

Fukuyama does not truly believe that ...

Question one: How does the shift in development strategy during in the late 1970s in favor of structural adjustments, acted as a fuelling force for development?

Globalization is a broad concept that entails expansion of economic activities, transfer of capital markets, investments, and human labor, easy flow of goods and services across the borders, and integration of global economies. Globalization has created a viable platform where nations can import and export goods and services freely, exchange ideas, knowledge, research findings, and enhance diplomacy ties through market liberalization. In other words, it has turned the world into a “global village” where nations have an opportunity to engage in the international trade and contribute in economic development. Several factors have played a crucial role in fuelling globalization in the contemporary ...

Chapter 16 – World War II

Zinn begins this chapter by posing a series of questions. Was World War II a people’s war as it had been claimed at the time? Why did the US really enter the war? How much did the imperialist powers of the day differ from Nazi Germany in terms of racism?

Zinn’s views are extremely interesting, considering that even today, these are issues people hardly ever discuss or even learn. We learn at school that the American intervention was caused by Hitler’s atrocities and the extreme loss of human lives in Pearl Harbor, but never about the real motives ...

In his description of himself, Baer acknowledges that he wasn’t born a patriot whose intention was to work for the CIA. He describes himself as a struggling student who had personal agendas (Baer, 2002). The book gives several accounts of what Baer describes as frustrations and mistakes he made while posted in Lebanon and India. The book also discusses the failings of the CIA. Baer gives the reasons for a failing CIA as: replacement of human intelligence with computer and satellite technology; a risk aversion approach by the agency that promoted bureaucratic practices and undermined intelligence gathering; and the prioritization of interests ...

Whalen, Ryan. "The U.S. Government as an Interagency Network." Inter-Agency Journal (2013): 70-80.

In this article, Ryan approaches the issues of inter-agency cooperation through a two threaded approach. One perspective evaluates the structure of the US government and the other perspective evaluating the methodological issues, which are relevant to inter-agency issues and inter-organizational network analysis. This study adopted the use of online data available in regard to inter-agency relations and inter-organizational analysis. There has been numerous studies in the recent past in regard to inter-organizational network studies based on the availability of data on the relations of organizations with each other. This article explores the inter-agency issues from the perspective of the government ...

Introduction

Often, historians will speak if watershed moments in history. Watershed moments are critical turning points that signal a significant or permanent change of historical fortunes. Throughout history, there have been significant moments and events that have had a lasting effect on how the society is today. Events such as the Declaration of Independence, the American Civil War, World War I, The Great Depression, World War II, and more recent events such as the 9/11 attacks are some of the events that have shaped world’s history. Usually, there is a perception that it is events that involve conflict shape the world’s ...

Question one

Identify two passages from the essay where the author uses description effectively. For each passage, explain the impact or effect of this description. “My son is almost fifteen years old, the size of a grown man, and when he bursts into room glassware rattles and the cat on your lap grabs on to your knees and leaps from the starting block.”

This passage not only presents to the reader the physical qualities of the son, but also effectively describes to the audience the behavior and the personality of the son. It through the description of how the son ...

When the Cold War commenced, the United States and the Soviet Union occupied different spheres of influence. On one hand, there was the Western Bloc that encompassed the Americans and their allies that advocated democracy in all spheres of society, particularly the economy. On the opposition side, there was the communist Soviet Union and its supporters forming the Eastern bloc. As per the words of the then British Prime Minister, Winston Churchill, “an iron curtain has descended across the Continent” and involved countries were to choose a side (Sinews of Peace, 300). For that reason, more territories meant more economic ...

Q1. The World War II took a diverse form. The film attempted to construct suspense the same as propaganda to convey ideas in support of the associated cause. The central government was responsible for propaganda and publicity in the Second World War. The effect was of consternation was desirable in the government.

Q2. Some of the conflicts that followed in the years after the end of World War II are; millions of Japanese and Germans were expelled from their native territories. Problems that lasted for a long time caused tension in East and West Germany which led to the creation of ...