(5) The use of a single nuclear weapon by one of the nuclear nation states for military purposes would spark a world wide nuclear war. ... Any nuclear nation state facing a chemical, nuclear or biological threat from a terrorist could retaliate with a tactical nuclear response without fear of sparking a world wide nuclear war...
The war sparked a series of social movements and criticism of Johnson's involvement in Vietnam. ... The Soviet invasion, which sparked Afghan resistance, initially involved an estimated 30,000 troops, a force that ultimately grew to 100,000. ...
In the early morning hours of 2 March 1969, Soviet border security personnel spotted a platoon-sized element of Chinese soldiers crossing the frozen Ussuri River, which forms a natural boundary between China and the USSR. The Soviet border outpost situated on the Ussuri launched a small contingent t...
Right after the Second World War, the Cold War was one of the greatest subjects in the study of International Relations. It lines up about fifty years of human history, a period which people have to live in fear, and a period that the world had to face its danger by nuclear disaster. To give a gre...
The Red Scare was an era in American history full of betrayal, ignorance, and paranoia, the effects of which could be seen from suburban streets to the silver-screen and everything in between. This fearful period was plagued with some of the darkest actions in the history of our nation that eventua...
English history is wrought with bouts of war, famine and chaos and near destruction of all British livelihoods. From the times of the Anglo-Saxon wars of pre-middle ages to the struggle for hegemonic power with Spain and France over colonization rights and the system of mercantilism. England has b...
Even before 1939 there were old apprehensions between East and West. The West disliked communism and viewed it as a dishonest and despicable system, one, which was completely incompatible with capitalism. The Western powers supported the Anti-communists in the Russian Civil War proving that they wanted to fight against communism. The Nazi-Soviet Pact of August 1939 outraged the West, who thought that Stalin had gone behind their back and even though he had always said he hated Germany he had made a deal with them. More than anything else however the principles of the West and the East differed...
During the 1950's McCarthyism consumed the daily lives of Americans. The term McCarthyism is a term used to describe senator Joe McCarthy's methods on the "war" against communism. This search for communists resulted in accusations that had no premises, and therefore were sometimes referred to as wit...
