Book Review: Covering a single war or insurgency that took place between 1945 and 1973. 1. The War in Korea 1950-1953: A Military Study of the War in Korea up to the Signing of the Cease Fire. By Major R.C.W. Thomas, O.B.E.. Aldershot, Gale and Polden Limited, 1954 2. Korea: the Unknown War. By Jo...

The historical impact of Operation Barbarosa cannot be denied. The Soviet victory over the Nazi German invaders set up the Soviets as a world superpower and set the stage for the Cold War. Had the Germans not attacked, the Russians may not have gained their dominance in Eastern Europe, and the W...

In the chapter of the 1900's called the Cold War, there is one clear and undeniable climax. October 16, 1962, and the twelve days that followed, the world came to a standstill over an event known as the Cuban Missile Crisis. This conflict was an inevitable wake up call to all involved that pro...

The initiation of the Cold War in the late 1950s brought forth a feeling of uncertainty to the United States government. Communist activity in the USSR (United Soviet Socialist Republic) and else where around the world, increased drastically and put the U.S. in a defensive minded position. There w...

The Korean War: US Response The war between the Republic of South Korea and the Democratic People's Republic of North Korea swiftly developed into a limited international war involving United States and 19 other nations. The Korean War is often known as the "Forgotten War" however for th...

Ever since nuclear weapons of mass destruction have existed, people have been attempting to create ways to prevent a war that would bring about a worldwide Arma-geddon. Many of today's top military and government officials have been studying ways in which the United States can protect itself...

In 1950, President Harry S. Truman authorized $15 million to go to the French in aid to "contain" communism, thus beginning America's involvement in a war that we had nothing to do with. The United States once had a foreign policy of non-involvement during the early 1900s in World War I (WWI) and...

Who Was to Blame for the Cold War? The blame for the Cold War cannot be placed on one person -- it developed as a series of chain reactions as a struggle for supremacy. It can be argued that the Cold War was inevitable, and therefore no one's fault, due to the differences in the capitalist and comm...

Who Was to Blame for the Cold War? The blame for the Cold War cannot be placed on one person -- it developed as a series of chain reactions as a struggle for supremacy. It can be argued that the Cold War was inevitable, and therefore no one's fault, due to the differences in the capitalist and comm...

The following is a discussion of American foreign policy towards Israel, and the Middle East. In it I will show that Lyndon Johnson changed the regional position and opinion of the United Stated by adapting a pro Israeli stance, categorized by excusing many unadvised forceful actions taken by Isra...

Joseph Stalin was the soviet communist leader who's passing molded an era, and whose iron rule determined the lives of millions of people. Considering that he shaped the direction of post-World War II Europe, we may regard him as the most powerful person to live during the 20th c...

The victorious forces at the end of the war divided Germany into four zones. They also divided Berlin into four zones. Each of the victorious nations controlled one zone and one sector of Berlin. The Allies (Britain, America and France) ran their zones differently to the areas controlled by Russia...

During the Cold War, the United States faced many international issues that either involved them in wars directly or indirectly. Because of this involvement, the United States entered a period of Cold War for over half a century. Some of the events that the United States was involved in, proved to...