This view, however, did not remain static. Pendulum swings in the policy appeared after times of crisis and failure. Most notably, the rise of Adolf Hitler and World War II provided a fundamental challenge to the idea that supporting right-wing dictators enhanced American interests and brought t...
World War II and the Cold War (Grades 6-12) (American History series) (eBook)
He had lots of interesting stories which we really enjoyed, and was incredibly knowledgeable and sensitive about world war 2 and the Cold War in Berlin. Fun and thought provoking, I’d recommend to everyone. We are a family with a teenage girl and boy- ...
The integration of science into U.S. foreign policy during World War II initially came from the urging of scientists. In August 1939, just months after the German chemist Otto Hahn and Austrian physicist Lise Meitner, working with others, discovered that heavy atomic nuclei could be split...
The People’s Republic of China, the Republic of China, and even the United States had all contributed to the historical neglect of this event for reasons deeply rooted in the cold war. After the 1949 Communist revolution in China, neither the People’s Republic of China nor the Republic ...
The World War Two section of the History Guy website examines the Second World War, its causes, consequences, and the details of the war itself. We will cover the military battles and campaigns, the personalities involved in the war, as well as those people associated with the events ...
Robert J. McMahon is the Ralph D. Mershon Distinguished Professor of History at Ohio State University. He is the author, among other works, of Cold War on the Periphery: The United States, India, and Pakistan, The Limits of Empire: The United States and Southeast Asia since World War II...
Who started World War 2 and why? Traditionally, World War 2 is said to have begun on September 1st, 1939 with the German invasion of Poland, prompting declarations of war from the UK and France. An alternative date is June 7th, 1937, with the Japanese invasion of Manchuria. How long was...
Ultimately, Strausz-Hupe found his way into the early stages of the American intelligence sector, taking on assignments aimed at gathering information from sections of the world where U.S. interests were threatened. After World War II, he resumed his university career, writing books and articles ...
World War II would go down in the history books as bringing about the downfall of Western Europe as the center of world power, leading to the rise of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (U.S.S.R.), setting up conditions leading to the Cold War, and opening up the nuclear age. ...