Summary Of Gus's Short Story: The Cold War

It is 1945 and some of my generation has already arrived, with more yet to come. The month is June and I just arrived. President Truman is in office. The war in Europe just ended, and the war with Japan is about to end. The Cold War has started but it will be two years before they officially call it the Cold War. In case you were wondering that is me in the carriage, as you can see I am not really too concerned about world events as of yet. I’m pretty sure that the rest of my generation isn’t either. It is also my guess that we won’t be for a while. However, as I said history is relevant and many world events will take place in the next nineteen years that will lead some of us toward war, and others toward what I believe to committing the unforgivable crime of treason.

In 1961 President John F Kennedy put together a doctrine, which altered from President Eisenhower’s one. It was to “Respond flexibly to communist expansion, especially guerrilla warfare.” (Roskin & Berry, 2010, p. 58) It was a time when the Cold War was at its height and nuclear weapons a mass threat and source of power. This doctrine was aimed at using alternative means before opening into combat. This, in light of the Cuban Missile Crisis in 1962, it succeeded in doing.

During World War II, the United States, Britain, and Russia all worked together to take down Hitler. Although after the war, the coordination between the U.S. and Russia became extremely tense which inevitably lead to the Cold War. The U.S. was worried that Russia would spread communism after World War II. Russia was concerned with the U.S. arms increase and intervention in international affairs. The distrust between the two nations resulted in the Cold war which lasted until 1991.

Pulling his gaze away from the mangled bodies, and back to Zai, Kyle's stared into her warm brown eyes. Ones which to him had remained warm, even when she'd clawed out those of Ian. Both of them painted in blood, the sensation of it seeping through their clothing and melding them together, felt natural, and there was no hesitation in his words, or the heat of his embrace and passion of his kisses. "Yep, hot." His blue orbs twinkled, and a crooked smile lit up the Army Veterans face. "And, you're right, they probably would've just pissed us off, and then we'd have had to murder them."

This article written by George Kennedy is essentially a review of the United States Government's views on the Soviet situation. It introduces the idea of a policy of containment which ultimately was going to be the way America would battle the Cold War with the Soviet Union.

We jumped out from the shadows that concealed us just as the Minotaur hit the wall making it shudder. The tunnels echoed with a boom like thunder. The beast turned to us, his eyes wild and filled with anger as we plunged into the darkness of the Labyrinth once again. We ran down the corridor, our footsteps resonating on the hard floor, the Minotaur right behind us. I could hear his laboured breathing which could only mean he was getting closer. We bolted into the tunnel on the left, trying to lose the Minotaur who was hunting us like prey, when the maze began to shift.

With this book, a major element of American history was analyzed. The Cold War is rampant with American foreign policy and influential in shaping the modern world. Strategies of Containment outlines American policy from the end of World War II until present day. Gaddis outlines the policies of presidents Truman, Eisenhower, Kennedy, Johnson, and Nixon, including policies influenced by others such as George Kennan, John Dulles, and Henry Kissinger. The author, John Lewis Gaddis has written many books on the Cold War and is an avid researcher in the field. Some of his other works include: The United States and the Origins of the Cold War, 1941-1947, The Long Peace: Inquiries into the History of the Cold War, We Now Know: Rethinking Cold War

While the individual documents that are a part of this week’s reading are insightful, particularly the grubby Lee Atwater article and Ronald Reagan’s manichean moral vision of America in his 1983 speech at the annual convention of the National Association of American Evangelicals, Robert McMahon in his book The Cold War: A Very Short Introduction shows the importance of broad overviews in accurately analyzing history. If overviews are skipped, historical analysis can get bogged down in details, which can potentially lead to seeing the forest for the trees. Although almost exclusively focused on foreign policy, McMahon reveals a president that is able to change with the times. Even before Gorbachev, Reagan was willing to adjust his actual policy positions in the face of political and public pressure as seen during

Conflict of political ideologies is something that was present since the dawn of American history. The American revolt against the arrogant, totalitarian regime set a precedent for the future events in which the nation came together to oppose anything that went against the concept of democracy, and capitalism. Communism, or Marxism posed as a huge threat to the free mined Western societies, thus resulting in world wars that left perilous aftermaths, and bred an ongoing conflict between the two global political establishments. The Cold War, which is most commonly known by the conflicts between the liberal United States, and the totalitarian USSR, affected multiple aspects of social norms, as it became a life style choice. The book The Cold War; A New History, by John Lewis Gaddis provides a detailed and constructive analysis on the causes and effects of conflicts and events that took place within the recent global history. Gaddis is a professor at the Yale University, and is a historian who contains a vast knowledge and expertise on the topics of Cold War and war strategy. Gaddis, in his book lays out the events that have occurred prior to and during the Cold War. What Gaddis was trying to achieve in his writing is to solidify the existing belief that Communism as a political opponent of the modernized Western society has brought nothing well but war and conflict. Gaddis illustrates the dictatorial regime that implanted itself in the eastern hemisphere, and has attempted to

It was one of me, against an army of them. The tall humanoid beings were swarming the objective in packs. There was no hope of victory, with all of my companions either incapacitated or deceased, but I was the only thing between them and the objective, I wasn’t going to survive, I knew that, but the lab’s safety was our nation’s last hope, so I charged.

Having lived through the last half of the Cold War, born 1954, I was privileged to be afraid of the communists. Schools I attended had those signs in the hallways that showed where to go in case of a nuclear attack, pictures of schoolchildren huddled under their desk or in the hallways or a fairly well-off family with a bunker in the backyard. Going about our daily lives, not really worried about anything except the end of the school day bell. Just why were we mad at the communists and more importantly why were they mad at us. Studying the cold war I learned the reason for the distrust was a lack of understanding of anothers culture. America assumed that Russians wanted to rule the world, enslave people, and destroy America. Interesting

Time needed to slow down. Porter needed to process all the stimuli bombarding him and having Tiger criticize him at every turn was not helping. Their voice was starting to piss him off. Hot passion bubbled up in him, burning to get into a petty fight in the middle of a situation that couldn’t get any worse. It could, Porter knew, but he would die before that happened.

Storytelling is what I do. At New York University's Gallatin School of Individualized Study I concentrated in Narrative (Re)Construction, which allowed me to investigate the methods and reasons of storytelling and the way stories shape our perceptions of the world. As a Staff Writer at Kotaku, I would leverage my knowledge of the mechanics of narrative with my familiarity of video games and the industry.

The end of the Cold War created new dimensions for bilateral and multilateral international relations, including the U.S.-Vietnam relations. From the demand of normalizing the bilateral diplomatic ties, the U.S. detailed a four-phase roadmap in April 1991, which associated closely with resolving the Vietnam’s military involvement in the Cambodian conflict, and the U.S. prisoners of war/missing in action (POW/MIA) issue during the war in Vietnam.

The end of the Cold War and the dissolution of the Soviet Union resulted in major shift in United States foreign policy. For years, the United States supported tyrannical dictators in return for stable anti-communist government receptive to United States interests. The Cold War resulted in a new world order with the United States as the lone global hegemonic power. In Eastern Europe in particular, the end of the Cold War ushered in an era of economic growth and a large increase in the number of liberal democracies. Although the world saw a large increase in liberal democracies, a new regime type referred to as competitive authoritarianism began to emerge. According to Levitsky and Way, “In competitive authoritarian regimes, formal