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    Post-Cold War US Foreign Relations The Cold War and its ending with the dismantling of the Soviet Union and a great reduction in the threat of communism as a competing system to capitalism and democratic governance changed the focus of US foreign policy. The change did not happen overnight and has ebbed and flowed significantly across time, often associated with the nature of foreign conflicts and US involvement in them but change it did (Saull, 2007, p. 180). The reduction of the size, might and

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    Post War Clean Up: Who is Responsible?

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    Who is responsible for post war clean up? That is a question that End and Beginning poses to the reader. The victor is usually the responsible party for clean-up and rebuilding. The first line of the poem tells the reader that someone must do it, “After each war somebody has to clear up put things in order by itself it won’t happen.” (Szymborska 690) What if the victor is an outside influence that has no intention of staying? The answer is the liberated country is responsible for its own clean

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    Post World War II Size

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    On Monday, 24 February 2014, Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel announced massive cuts to the size of the armed services, slashing the army to its pre-World War II size. (breithbart.com) Hagel’s plan called for a 25% reduction in manpower by 2019. Historically, these cuts equate to a perceived failure of will power of the American government by its global enemies. Such cuts are sure to decrease the readiness posture of fighting units across the military. First order effects from cuts to funding

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    The Role of Women During the post-war period women were getting more opportunities and freedoms within society, while at the same time getting more limitations. Using one’s maternal instinct was a concept that was heavily stressed during this period and made a big impact on their home life and work life. The Cold War was a time where women had a lot of responsibilities to both their family but also society. They were the caretakers and had an incredible amount of work to do in preparation of nuclear

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    Britain 's post-war international situation expressed as “Britain has lost an Empire and has not yet found a role,” by Dean Acheson. His arguments have seemed so accurate, explaining not only the ambiguity about Britain 's role but the weakening in her international position. Though every country wants to be taken into consideration sincerely around the other countries, one country always takes the role of leadership. The leadership position was belonged to Britain for a long time ago, before the

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    The historian who wrote this extract kept a post revisionist approach to reach a judgement for who caused the Cold War in his beginning paragraph . Post revisionist historians blames neither side but instead blames the foundation of mutual misunderstanding which was always there. This idea was first introduced by the leading post revisionist historian John Lewis Gaddis during the late 1900s. There are few reasons why I concluded that the writer kept post revisionist approach. First of all , in his

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    Post World War II, both the United States and the Soviet Union were fearful of fighting each other directly from fear of nuclear weapons and mass destruction (D. Johnson, P. Murray). Instead, they fought each other by participating in wars on separate parts of the world. Cold War tensions between the United States and the Soviet Union constantly fluctuated due to both sides trying to influence political and economic developments around the world (D. Johnson, P. Murray). Following World War II, the

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    I. Life in post-World War II Canada A. Many people immigrated to Canada following the war. Most immigrants settled in the cities such as Toronto, Montreal, and Vancouver. B. The “baby boom” began as Canadian soldiers returned from the war, married, and started families. C. On March 31, 1949, Newfoundland joined Canada forming the tenth province of our country. D. In 1949, the construction of the trans-Canada highway was begun. E. In June of 1959, the St. Lawrence Seaway opened connecting the Great

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    poses a significant threat to the power of the United States. The unipolar post-Cold War Earth has since begun evolving into a multipolar world where what control means is multifaceted. From this, the United States must review its position in the world and determine what it needs to be as its control shifts and wanes. It was only in recent history that the United States became a massive power. The enormous quantity of war supplies they produced by 1944, doubling the production amounts of both Japan

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    . 2) USS Reuben James: USS Reuben James (DD-245) a post-World War I, four-channel Clemson-class destroyer was the initially United States Navy ship sunk by threatening activity in the European theater of World War II and the initially named for Boatswain 's Mate Reuben James (c.1776–1838), who separated himself battling in the Barbary Wars. The New York Shipbuilding Corporation of Camden, New Jersey, propelled on 4 October 1919, set down Reuben James on 2 April 1919 and dispatched on 24 September

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