US Policy Towards Asia In this new century the United States has placed a new emphasis on Forign Relations with Asia. Foreign Since 1945 the United States has had a special relationship with Japan. The United States has had a very detailed history in helping to create the Japan t...

On April 4th 1949 a Military Alliance between the Capitalist Nations of the West was formed known as the Northern Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO). NATO's primary purpose was to unify and strengthen the western Allies' military response to a possible attack on any nation in the Northern Atlantic....

The War Against Iraq Many say that the Bush Administration is justified in its attempts to wage war against Iraq. Citizens that believe in this course of action should stop and examine some of the finer details. After the conflict in Afghanistan our government shifted its attention to Iraq...

The origins of the East-West conflict stems from multiple events. This tension brewed into a bitter and long conflict known as the Cold War. The struggle for dominance and world power was masked with differences in ideas of political, social and economic ways of life. At the climax of the Cold Wa...

Over the course of the last half-century the U.S. has enjoyed unprecedented power in every aspect whether it be politically, economically, militarily, or by any other means. In its dominance of world politics since WWII, the U.S. has been able to cast its influence around the globe. However...

In the aftermath of WWII, the international context war very particular: the war has bled Europe dry and the continent was thus to be rebuilt. The world was divided into two hostile camps: the West side, under the aegis of the USA and which gathered democratic countries and was politically, eco...

The Cold War was caused by many factors which each contributed to the uncertainty and instability of the situation between the America and the Soviet Union. While there were many important factors, only a few stand out as prominent causes of the conflict. First, the decision by America...

Oppenheimer and Sakharov and the Cold War J. Robert Oppenheimer and Andrei Sakharov are both considered leaders of nuclear physics during the World War II and the Cold War. The two men had astonishingly similar lives, achievements and views on nuclear weapons. Andrei Sahkarov (1921-1989), ...

Cuban Missile Crisis When given the opportunity to write a research paper on any conflict or battle during recent American History, one has a number of options: World War Two, the War in Vietnam, and the Korean conflict to name but a few. However, I have chosen a brief period of two weeks d...