The Anglo-American Special Relationship has been at its most vibrant when the two countries have shared a common adversary. The Cold War confrontation with
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After the World War 2 between powers in the Eastern Bloc and powers in the Western Bloc, the relationship developed primarily between the USA and USSR; eventually leading up to a war called the Cold War. Although the Cold War was between the United States and the Soviet Union; ultimately, ...
Cold War Chinese Tanks Type 58 and T-34-85 in Chinese Service ‘Type 58’ is an unofficial name which refers to the mysterious Chinese upgrade package to the T-34-85. All T-34-85s in operational service with the People’s Liberation Army’s (PLA) came to the People’s Republic of ...
The end of theCold Warcan be credited to the actions of Ronald Reagan,Mikhail Gorbachev, and George Bush, as well as the breakup of communist satellite nations. Ronald Reagan with his increased spending in the defense sector instigated an arms race with theSoviet Unionin an attempt to overwhel...
5For investigations of the shifting meaning of the idea of ‘public opinion’, see Stephen Wertheim, ‘Reading the International Mind: International Public Opinion in Early Twentieth Century Anglo-American Thought’ in Daniel Bessner and Nicolas Guilhot, eds.,The Decisionist Imagination: Sovereignty,...
Our perceptions of the Cold War are shaped by historians and their contrasting views, as discussed in this survey of Cold War historiography.
During the course of the Cold War,tensions rose and fell many times.One period of relaxation developed in the early 1970s and became known as "Détente," a French word meaning "release of tensions." It was hoped that the new relationship would herald a permanent improvement in relations ...
“I felt that the relationship between the United States and the Soviet Union would probably be the single most important factor in determining whether the world would live at peace during and after my administration,” Nixon wrote in his memoirs. ...