After World War II, the United States and the Soviet Union were the only two superpowers that remained. This post World War period was referred to as the "Cold War". Throughout World War I and II period an "anti-balance" of power system developed worldwide. As no single superpowers emerged, many...

The collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991 was a pivotal political event of the 20th century that signaled the eclipse of a major political and economic ideology of the 20th century, i.e., Communism, and left the United States as the sole and unchallenged superpower in the world. Most political analys...

The Anglo-Russian "cold war" of the 19th Century and the US-Soviet "cold war" of the 20th Century were both conflicts over differences concerning the spread of communism. England's objective in the Anglo-Russian conflict was containment, the idea that England wanted ...

The Cold War was already underway during World War II, we the United States were always worried about what the Russians next move would be. They had violated many agreements that they made with America. America was in great fear of the expansion of the Communist Party in parts of Europe and othe...

Modernism Until recently, the word "modern" used to refer generically to the contemporaneous; all art is modern at the time it is made. As an art historical term, "modern" refers to a period dating from roughly the 1860s through the 1970s and is used to describe the style and the ideology of art ...

Robert A. Heinlein's 1955 novelStarship Troopers? and its message could be described as fascist, provocative, irresponsible and unpalatable. Paul Verhoeven's 1997 film Starship Troopers can, however, lay claim to being the ideological polar opposite of the novel. Verhoeven achieves this anti-fascist...

Throughout my life and in all of my history classes, I have heard about the Cold War. I would hear people talk of it on the news or would watch movies that took place in that specific era. I never had a course that was aimed to specifically teach national security or give organized lectures about t...