The Cold War (1945-1991) dominated international relations within a framework of political, economic, and military tension between the United States and the Soviet Union. The Cold War facilitated global leadership by the United States, and provided Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin and his successors with an enemy to justify their repressive regime. The Cold War helped ...
The Cold War embodied the growing tensions between the east and the west, and polarized movies as well. As tensions grew between the USSR and the US, American foreign policy appeared in various ways on the big screen. Nameless, tyrannical foes appeared battled by an “average Joe.” The Cold War and its threats of a ...
“Dreadnought” by Robert K. Massie explains how the great naval arms race between Great Britain and Germany at the dawn of the twentieth century was the biggest single root cause of the beginning of the First World War in 1914. It has been nearly 100 years now since the beginning of World War I, “the ...
Offutt Air Force Base, which is just a few miles from Omaha Nebraska, has been the subject of protest since the 1970’s according to this speaker from the peace rally at Offutt Air Force Base in April of 2008. Offutt Air Force Base was in the middle of the arms race that was part of ...