So, when considering an ever evolving view of one of the most dangerous times in world history, which interpretation is right or wrong? ... As the 1950's ended and the world entered the bedlam of the 1960's, the traditional ideas of the Orthodox school historians had introduced about the Origins of the Cold War were put to the test by a new school that aimed to revise the story. ... This view announced that instead of citizens supporting presidential and parliamentary government and free enterprise, American corporations controlled foreign policy.14 As with other social and political...

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The Kennedy White House Administration played a tremendous role in the integration of The University of Mississippi and the Cuban Missile Crisis that happened between September 28, 1962 and October 28, 1962. In September 1962, James Meredith, an African American man, tried enrolling at the Universit...

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Both of these recognize the need to change, but pursue to implement changes that tested the developed interests of their own communist parties. ... Even though both reforms seemed to have potential and even had some similarities, only one ended triumphant after its establishment and unfortunately, Gorbachev's failed; Staying in history as an attempt of incorporating a new economic system and actually collapsing the Soviet Union. Although both men were equally creative, innovative and powerful only Xiaoping became one of the greatest peaceful transformation leaders in human history....

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The United Nations saw fit to deploy their first ever-armed peacekeepers to the canal in 1956 (The History of Peacekeeping, n.d), and further they threatened to halt Britain's oil supplies. ... America on the other hand eager to extend its influence in the Middle East, but not be manipulated or tested by Nasser, Eisenhower wanted to continue to policy of communist containment while also wanting Arab support during the Israeli-Palestinian crisis. ... It was these convoluted characteristics of Suez that see it remembered as one of the most important and controversial events in history fol...

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At the time, China possessed only a fraction of nuclear weapons in their arsenal and first tested their nuclear weapons only five years prior to the Zhenbao Island incident. ... Their past history should be a stark warning for their intentions to deploy deceitful tactics on the world stage in the future....

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Both Kennedy and Johnson had begun to institute talks on weapons testing and proliferation, but Détente, as a policy, was pursued much more vigorously with Nixon and his National Security Advisor Henry Kissinger (Penna, par. 2). ...

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Background and During the Cooling of Relations The Second World War drastically changed the political map of the world, and especially the European continent. The basic premises of the new alignment of the world developed in the final stages of the war. The anti-Hitler coalition, the main role which played the great powers - the US, the USSR, England, and at the last stage of the war France - increasingly reflect the new balance of power in the world. Neither Britain nor France, nor even, defeated Germany could not play in the post-war period of the previous role of the guarantor of balance a...

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