The Cold War is a time of political tension between the United States and the USSR following World War II and lasting decades. It was a clash of ideology- capitalism versus communism- and a fight for dominance, by utilizing every opportunity for expansion (Trueman 1). The results and lessons learned from the Cold War still remain as reminders and helpful guides for the future. With the War on Terror at hand, the United States could use the lessons learned from the Cold War as a guide. The Cold War
involved during the cold war. Third world countries are the developing countries or poor countries but today the term is used to show nations with the smallest UN Human Development index (HDI) in the world, independent of their political status. In some other countries the term Third World is disliked because it implies the false notion that those countries are not part of the global economic system. Some other countries noted that the underdevelopment of Africa during the cold war was influenced or
of historians studying the cold car. According to Gaddis, cold war scholars “reflected the contemporaneous debates rather than viewing them with the detachment that comes after the end of an era; they viewed events from the inside instead of from the outside … Many scholars did not know how to get perspective on foreign policy because they had never experienced anything but the cold war.” Both Gaddis and Eagles contend that conducting an outside looking inward study of a particular subject matter
Origins of the Cold War The purpose of this paper is to explore the origins of the Cold War. To accomplish this exploration, the works of W.A. Williams, Robert Jervis, and Arthur Schlesinger, Jr. serves as the foundation. Before a closer examination of these works, a short explanation of the three common viewpoints regarding the study of the Cold War is warranted. These viewpoints are Attribution, Structural, and Misperception. With these viewpoints to guide the way, the above authors
Area studies are often defined as interdisciplinary fields of research and scholarship that combine a number of disciplines that focus on a particular cultural, national or geographical region. It is really an umbrella for studies that may take a wide path and include subjects like history, literature, geography, sociology, religion, anthropology, political science, economics and history. The idea is to look at a broader base of study and attempt to provide holism. Instead of studying a single country
1926 in the tiny southern town of Monroeville, Alabama ("Harper Lee"). Her father Amasa Coleman Lee, had many occupations. He was a lawyer, a member of the Alabama state legislature, and owner of the local newspaper. He was also a descendant of Civil War general, Robert E. Lee ("HarperLee.com"). It was believed that her mother Frances Cunningham Finch-Lee almost never left her residence and had suffered from mental illness ("Harper Lee"). Harper Lee is the youngest of four children. The oldest Lee child
an assessment of solutions to help develop the United States relations with the Middle East. In the beginning of the book Lynch states in his thesis that he wants to “make sense of what happened and offer a guide of what is to come.” (1) Lynch, a political scientist and a Middle East studies director, is telling his reader that he is about to break down the events that allotted for the Arab Spring to occur and what we could expect from that point forward. In the first Chapter Lynch discusses “The
main argument throughout this book. New patterns of distinctions and conflict will occur along boundaries of different cultures. However, patterns of cohesion will be found within the cultural boundaries. Huntington analyzes the resurgence of post-cold war cultural identities. He does this in order to explain the prevailing and future world order. From Huntington’s perspective, arguments and world views which claim the existence and proliferation of a universal culture can be disregarded. Hunting argues
diplomat and Russian studies expert, was looking to retire to his quiet farm in Pennsylvania, but he needed to leave a successor for the Policy Planning Staff. He decided on Paul Nitze. However, just months later after Russia succeeded in building and testing an atomic bomb and Nitze’s appeal for an assessment of U.S. Foreign Policy, Kennan on September 30 wrote, “I face the work of these remaining months with neither enthusiasm nor hope for achievement.” Obviously, the Cold War would be a large undertaking
Eisenhower/ Truman Study Guide The questions cover Chapters 5, 6, and 7 from the Cold War book- Pearson, and Ch. 12, 16, and 17 and pages 150-161 from the Todd book. All of these sections were assigned and questions were asked in class covering most of the readings. 1. What was the difference between Cominform and COMECOM? Cominform: Communist Information Bureau (September 1947) created as an instrument to increase Stalin’s control over the Communist parties of other countries. COMECOM: