1. Germany and the Cold War
During his few weeks as Vice President, Harry S. Truman barely saw President Roosevelt, and received no briefing on the development of the atomic bomb or the unfolding difficulties with Soviet Russia. Suddenly these and a host of other wartime problems became Truman's to solve when, on April 12, 194...
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. ...