Mikhail Kutuzov

Who knew a small town boy turned actor would become our most impactful president? Ronald Reagan, the 40th President of the United States, charmed voters with his good looks, demeanor and effective storytelling qualities. He grew up in a small town in western Illinois, and after college became a radio broadcaster who was popular for his speaking abilities. He then went on to test for movies, and his career took off when Warner Brothers began casting him in their films. Hollywood shaped Reagan’s life

Reagan’s Role in the Demise of the Soviet Union Entering into the 1980s, the Soviet system was already in deep trouble. In order to match the US arms arsenal, it had put itself in a position, whereby the Soviet economy was finding it difficult whether to first put bread on the table of a common Russian or to match US in a tit for tat response. Though Gorbachev’s intentions were to strike a deal with the United States in order to put a halt to the arms race, which was straining the Soviet

The Cold War was not a normal conflict. The US and the USSR never fought. However, they often supported different warring sides. Nevertheless, we can say that the Cold War is a political, military and media conflict, which has a large effect over the lives of thousands of innocent civilians. The Cold War is a battle between totalitarianism and democracy, battle for a new world turn between two opposing systems. This essay will look at three different theories that explain why the Cold War came to

The reasons why the 1981 attempt at reforming Social Security under the Reagan administration failed, as detailed in Chapter 8 of Martha Derthick and Steven M Teles’ The Reagan Presidency: Pragmatic Conservatism and its Legacies, boils down to the following factors: it did not have a clear goal in mind about Social Security reform (Derthick, Teles 187), it had a poor working relationship with Congress on the issue (Derthick, Teles 185), and leadership, on part of the president, was lacking (Derthick

John Lewis Gaddis, is a leading American Historian of the Cold War. He is the Professor of history at Yale University. He is already the author of six books on the same subject. The Cold War: A New History, however, has been written on a less cosmic level. He has distilled a life time of research into this short but comprehensive book. He has given new avenues to old controversies in worldly and stylish, yet direct and plain-spoken manner. The book offers a lot of summaries to intricate historical

BRIC is an acronym which was coined by British economist, Jim O’Neill in 2001. The term first appeared in a Goldman Sachs report titled "Building Better Global Economic BRICs.” The term ‘BRIC’ has come to symbolize an economic shift from the traditional powers, countries typically associated with the G7, and towards the developing world and emerging global economies (O 'Neill, Jim (30 November 2001). Building Better Global Economic BRICs, Global Economics Paper No: 66. Goldman Sachs.). The acronym

Ronald Reagan 's 40th Anniversary Speech of D-Day Ronald Wilson Reagan, February 6, 1911 – June 5, 2004 was an American politician and actor who served as the 40th President of the United States from 1981 to 1989. Prior to his presidency, he was the 33rd Governor of California from 1967 to 1975, following a career as a Hollywood actor and union leader. ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ronald_Reagan) Reagan also served in the U.S. Army during World War Two achieving the rank of Lieutenant But

Perhaps the most visual reference to the Cold War was the Berlin Wall. Although this wall only existed to divide Berlin into two sides, it became a physical representation of the Cold war for many and its fall in 1989 has been regarded to many as the end of the Cold War. I have always been interested in the background history behind the Berlin Wall. Since I started school in the 80s and was in High School while the Cold War was winding down, I don’t have a great personal understanding of many

leaders. My first source will be a primary source, Gorbachev, Mikhail. Gorbachev Letter to Reagan. Letter to Ronald Reagan. 28 Oct. 1987. MS. N.p., which is a letter written from Gorbachev to Reagan. The second source will be History.com Staff. Perestroika and Glasnost. History.com. A&E Television Networks, 2010. Web. 31 May 2016., which is a secondary source created by History.com, which discuss Perestroika and Glasnost. Gorbachev, Mikhail. Gorbachev Letter to Reagan. Letter to Ronald Reagan. 28 Oct

Master and Margarita The genre of Russian Socialist Realism is firmly tied up with the political change that occurred in the Soviet Union in the 1920s and 30s, after the Bolshevik Revolution, and has ruled every single masterful field until the separation of the Soviet Union in 1991. With the new post-progressive philosophies that were being put into utilization by the Soviet government to energize the procedure of collectivization and industrialization, the requirement of Socialist Realism as a