1. Germany and the Cold War
The Vietnam War is one of the most debated topics of the twentieth century "this is reflected in the endless amount of books, articles, documentaries, and Hollywood productions that have emerged about the topic. Much of the historiography of the conflict, as well as mainstream popular literature o...
A significant backlog of States in economic development (that should have lead to a military backlog) was offset by the possibility of a centralized economy to concentrate scarce resources on specific industries and quantitative superiority. ...
The Cold War Tensions with the United States and Russia have been around for quite some time. Russia and the United States were allies during World War II, but soon after they became enemies. After W.W.II, even though the Soviet Union had a strong military, it was encircled by hostile capitalist governments and felt that if communism was to remain strong, it needed to form an alliance with other communist countries. Also after the war, Germany was divided right through the middle of Berlin, Germany. West Germany was democratic and East Germany was communist. ...