Guatemala During the Cold War, the United States found many countries as a threat to the changing government of Democracy. In 1947, when President Truman signed the National Security Act, enabling several Top Secret government agencies to form, he formed the CIA. One of the countries that posed...

Killer Submarine Submarine Secrets in the Cold War is about sleek, black killing machines called submarines. For forty years submarines lived in the lines of the Cold War between the United States and the Soviet Union. There are always secrets and questions to what really took place. The U...

Joseph Stalin was a Georgian Marxist revolutionary leader and later dictator of the USSR. He was born in Gori, Georgia. He studied at Tiflis Orthodox where he was expelled from in 1899. After joining a Georgian Social Democratic organization in 1898, he became active in a revolutionary undergroun...

Joseph Stalin lived from 1879 till 1953. Stalin was one of the most ruthless communist dictators of all time. After Lenin's death, Stalin pushed his way to the top and was set out to make the Soviet Union into an industrial power. In 1928, Stalin proposed the Five Year Plans, which were t...

Was the United States justified in dropping the atomic bomb on Japan? On August 6, 1945, the United States became the first country to ever use the atomic bomb in warfare. On this day, the first of the two atomic bombs were dropped. The first was known as "Little Boy" and was drop...

Changes within the Iron Curtain of Soviet Russia varied greatly based on the individual in power. Stalin represented a conservative and nationalist regime, which was later de-Stalinized by Nikkita Khrushchev. Yet this change was also reversed in some ways when Loenid Brezhnev took power and began...

Arms Control Arms control is a major issue facing the nations of the world today. The concept that a war today could destroy every living thing doesn't sit well with many people. So to control weapons and what nations have these weapons will help control war. With problems with Nuclear...

The Lost Innocence of a Forgotten War It is a cool autumn day; the trees are changing from their summer green to their vibrant orange, reds and yellows. Leaves scatter the wet grass as the family pets run back and forth, their tails wagging, breath floating in puffs of mist before being swep...

Antiwarriors: The Vietnam War And The Battle For America's Hearts And Minds. By Melvin Small. (Wilmington, DE, Scholarly Resources Inc, 2002. pp. 163). The antiwar movement during the Vietnam Conflict was the most effective and long lasting of all the antiwar movements in American history. Up...

The Cold War The Cold War was an extended conflict between the western states, which were led by the United States, and the communist states that were led by the Soviet Union. The Cold War lasted forty-five years from 1945 to 1990. The Cold war had economical, political, and ideological ...

Americans have always wanted the "best" of things. Brand new cars, big houses, and flashy clothes have historically been an American way of life. Even in the face of extreme hardships, Americans being Americans, go to extreme measures to preserve their way of life. Of course, we Americans have our...

Throughout its existence, the Brandenburg gate has served as an entrance to the famous avenue Unter den Linden that led to the Prussian royal palace. It was commissioned by the Prussian prince Frederick William II during the late 19th century and was constructed between 1788-1791. It is a neoclassic...

The first year tenure of Carter's presidency bought some changes in the political arena with revision in the Administration of the Social Security system that in turned increased both the wage base and rate of taxation, in order to produce the revenue required to continue the program. On ...

Europe will never be like America. Europe is a product of history. America is a product of philosophy. Margaret Thatcher (1925 - ) In the year nineteen hundred, the center of world power inarguably resided in Eur...

Dwight D. Eisenhower, a small town boy who grew up to the be the five-star general of the United States military force and the 34th president was an accomplished man. He was born on October 14, 1890 in Denison, Texas. He died in Walter Reed Army Hospital on March 28, 1969 from a heart attack. Eisenh...

The Communist World and the Free World were two kinds of economic and political camps existing in 1985. At the center of these camps were two nations, the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics who followed the principals of communism, and the United States of America with the belief in Capitalism and...

Colin Powell Colin Powell is a great man. He played an important role in the Persian Gulf War. He even helped (former) President George Bush make decisions. We respect him for his intelligence and skill. The following paragraphs will be dedicated to his life. Colin Powell ...

Present-day Iraq has long been a burial ground for ancient treasures. Archeologists have found Sumerian tablets, Babylonian jewels, and Assyrian obelisks. However, the question asked by many is if you kept digging would find more ancient artifacts. The answer is not likely, you are however more like...

In 1774 our country was founded by men who thought that all people should be treated equal and fairly. Time has passed, and since then we have lost some of our morals and values but the main idea still remains. We fight for what is right even when we are the only one fighting; all to try and keep o...

Book Review I. Authors Background Stephen E. Ambrose was born in 1936. He grew up in Whitewater, Wisconsin. Ambrose has two brothers named Harry and Bill. Harry is two years older and Bill is two years younger. Ambrose's father was a navy doctor in the Pacific. His mother worked in...

Zaire and Vietnam – Countries in Turmoil After, before, and during the Vietnam War, America has tried to push democracy, or at least democratic ideas, onto other countries. In Africa, Zaire was a country that was heavily influenced by the morals of the U.S. – a stable government and...

Through terror and control, Joseph Stalin completely suppressed dissent and achieved close to total obedience. Along with Hitler and Mussolini, Stalin is revered as one of the three most powerful and influential dictators of the twentieth century. Through terror and control, Joseph Stalin complet...

The Cold War laid its effects on many countries and nations, however, for some parts of the world the end of the cold war had a much greater effect. Of all the countries and nations that were left with an everlasting impression of the Cold War, Germany was left with much more. The rise and fall of t...

From 1945 to 1985, New Zealand (NZ) was involved militarily in Asia, and the primary reason was the Canberra pact of 1944. The main conflicts NZ was involved in were Korea (1950-1953), Malaysia (1960-1966), and Vietnam (1965-1972). One of the reasons NZ was involved in Asia was the Canberra Pact ...

India's Nuclear Weapons Essay written by Mekare This event is in the news because a country violated a law that the entire world agreed on not doing anymore. India have always wanted to become nuclear, and their wish came true. They accepted their consequences of being nuclear, but they are happ...