After World War II, as the new weapons technology threatened the very survival of American society and its people, its policymakers continued to pursue traditional objectives. They sought to enhance the nation's (and its allies') security through deterrence, to reduce military expenditures, to infl...
The American Society of African Culture: The CIA and Transnational Networks of African Diaspora Intellectuals in the Cold WarIn February 1967, the US Cold War effort suffered a major setback. The west coast magazine Ramparts revealed that the CIA was secretly funding the ostensibly independent ...
The United States and Soviet Union had become the two superpowers, vividly proving their strengths in the most recent war. These strengths, however, caused a rivalry to form between the two, and would affect the United State’s domestic policy and American society throughout the Cold War. ...
Rose, thoroughly examines the year 1950 in the United States and the effect that the Cold War had on the American populous. Rose examines communism and the military threat that it posed on the nation and how this impacted American society and the generation that endured World War II. 1340 ...
has argued, the task of imagining the nation as homogeneous in its makeup, which I take to mean solely European American , requires the formation of a separate racial imagination whereby Asians in the United States remain "fundamentally 'foreign'" and averse to the mores of American society. ...
Cold Warimperial overstretchPaul KennedyUnited StatesSoviet Uniondefenceforeign policydoi:10.1080/01440389208403978RenggerN. J.Arms ControlRengger, N.J., 1992. `Arms Control, International Society and the End of the Cold War', Arms Control 13, 1: 32-57....
While the Cold War never turned "hot" except in proxy wars between the United States and the Soviet Union, the collapse of the latter in the 1990s meant that the United States had effectively won the war. Despite this, the war was not without its costs, and the American economy suffered...
and American military and political commitments proliferated. At the same time, the preeminent economic position of the United States at the end of World War II much enhanced its influence abroad and gave it great weight in shaping the economic structure of the noncommunist world. Thus, American...
How did the Cold War affect American culture?Cold War:Between 1945 and 1991, the United States and the Soviet Union engaged in a global contest for ideological supremacy. The conflict is remembered as the Cold War, since there was no direct fighting between the superpowers....
Transatlantic Relations, the Cold War and the EnvironmentBook © 2017 Overview Authors: Evanthis Hatzivassiliou First book to explore the history of NATO in the 1970s and specifically the Committee on the Challenges of Modern Society Anlayses the impact of emerging international, environmental ...