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 period is one of the most defining episodes in world history. The Cold War shaped geopolitical and geo-statistics alignment between most of the world’s nations. The world was commenced at the end of Second World War 1945 and lasted to the disintegration of the USSR in 1991. Origin of term The origin ...
COMMENTARY | The story in Politico, which reveals a little about the approach that Hollywood is going to take to a film about the Reykjavik arms control summit October 1986, should be all too familiar to how conservatives heroes are treated in the movies. Essentially the filmmakers reject the notion that President Ronald Reagan, to ...
According to the Associated Press, Russian President Vladamir Putin has made further threats against the nuclear missile agreements that have been made in the past. He has also made more threats against the United States and its allies. Putin has issued a warning that a new Cold War has begun. The day after the start ...
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 ...
Many historians believe that the Cold War was inevitable once the common enemy, Germany, was defeated after the end of World War II. Other historians such as John Gaddis stress that neither superpower can be held solely responsible for the ideological war that lasted half a century. These historians believe that the US and the ...
