President Harry Truman and Winston Churchill in England. Maarten van Alstein writes in the journal Cold War History (Alstein, 2009, p
And the Soviets had nuclear weapons poised on top of long-range intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBMs). When John Kennedy ran for president in 1960, the candidate received a lot of votes based on his "strident anti-Communism" and "the vigor" with which he promoted his "anti-communism" pitch (Farber, 1994, p
also had those weapons at the ready. What would a male citizen do to protect his family if there was a nuclear attack from the soviets? The federal government entertained many proposals to build bomb shelters (also called "fallout shelters") including a proposal that might cost "as much the total of all the country's personal income tax collections for one year" (Rose, 2004, 26)
Spiderman was a comic book character who tried to find a balance between the two worlds of totally supporting one's country or totally defying it. He was a superhero "beset with personal problems and hang-ups, battles for truth, justice and the American way -- often questioning himself and what he is fighting to uphold" (Horn)
The Dark Knight Returns and the Watchmen, as Umberto Eco states, were two comics that seemed to take the stance that space is permeable where the superhero took a role that supported a varied and contradictory battery of readings. The superhero was both the exotic bringing resolution with his costume, but surprising everyone by his adherence to an almost archaic code of personal honor (Reynolds)
" Susan Storm, Ben's girlfriend, was able to disappear into a cloak of invisibility, and thus appropriately assumed the name "Invisible Girl," or "Invisible Woman" to respond to the Woman's Movement. Sue's teenager brother, Johnny, generated flame from his body and propelled himself through the air with shades of the previous Human Torch, and thus was given the same name (Rovin)
There were other books against the Communists, as well. (Wright)
The wise men of the Cold War embraced collective security, forged NATO, created a host of other multilateral institutions, and grasped the interdependence of the modern global economy. (Leffler 22) Soviet communist expansionism had an inevitable quality to it that claimed that it would permeate the entire world
Reagan's ability to rearm in the midst of a deep recession, and his readiness to decry the Soviet empire while remaining popular, made a deep impression. (Sicherman) Reagan demonstrated that he was willing to make decisions regardless of their popularity to assure the defense of the United States
"In March 1969, after several exchanges of gunfire between Soviet and Chinese troops on the Ussuri River, which separates Chinese Manchuria and Soviet Siberia, the prospect of a Sino-Soviet war did not seem out of the question, particularly after the Soviets massed forty divisions on the frontier facing China. The Soviets apparently were prepared to reduce tensions with the United States and its European allies if only to free themselves to deal with the seemingly unreasonable Chinese" (Powaski, 1998)
S. To adopt a military strategy that favored limited warfare (Brodie)
Viewing such development as both a political and military threat, the United States adopted an aggressive position relative to space exploration and within a few short years not only caught up with the Soviets but also surpassed the Soviet's successes. From the space program many technological advancements were garnered that have benefited American society in general (Comstock)
The rise of the Soviet Union and America's involvement in NATO caused the country to abandon its primary foreign policy based on isolation. Suddenly, the United States was placed in the position of being a policeman for democratic ideals and being the source of military power to combat further Soviet expansion in Europe (Cox)
The Soviet Union's development of an atomic bomb and, later, nuclear weaponry initiated a major military build-up by the U.S. government (Lieber)
America's presence throughout the world militarily and the dependence of Western Europe and Japan on the American economy for the sustenance of their own economies caused America's political and economic influence to expanded substantially. Beginning with the Berlin airlift (Reeves) where the United States provided food and other vital items to West Berliners cut off from the rest of West Germany to the adoption of the Truman Doctrine (Truman) where the United States officially committed itself to providing financial and military aid to nations in Europe fighting Communism, the United States positioned itself as the world's leader in the battle against the spread of Communism
was the Soviet Union and this additional factor added to the tensions of the Cold War. Prior to the Second World War the United States played only a secondary role in European and other World affairs but because the United States enjoyed a brief period of military dominance (6 years) when they, and they alone, possessed nuclear capability (Sherwin)
America's presence throughout the world militarily and the dependence of Western Europe and Japan on the American economy for the sustenance of their own economies caused America's political and economic influence to expanded substantially. Beginning with the Berlin airlift (Reeves) where the United States provided food and other vital items to West Berliners cut off from the rest of West Germany to the adoption of the Truman Doctrine (Truman) where the United States officially committed itself to providing financial and military aid to nations in Europe fighting Communism, the United States positioned itself as the world's leader in the battle against the spread of Communism
A frenzy of fear developed in American society fueled by reports from the media and manifested by the McCarthy Congressional hearings and investigations. The fervidness of the McCarthy eventually dissipated somewhat but the fear of Communism remained strong in American society for several decades (Zeinert)
clandestine logistical support and supply of war materials to the Mujahedin forces fighting Soviet forces in Afghanistan throughout the decade-long Soviet war in that region. The Cold War nearly turned hot several times, most notably in connection with the Cuban Missile Crisis of 1962, but also several times in later decades by virtue of mechanical errors suggesting to the Soviets that American first strikes were imminent; those later near-catastrophes were never acknowledged to have occurred until decades afterwards (Langewiesche 2007)
invasion of mainland Japan. The two nations emerged as global major superpower after collaborating against the Axis powers, but by 1948, conflicting interests for the future of Germany and the rest of Western Europe resulted in an escalation of antagonism that culminated in the Soviet blockade of Berlin, forcing the supply by air of civilian needs behind the "Iron Curtain," a term coined by Winston Churchill describing the perception in the West of the Soviet approach to geopolitics in the region (McNamara 1995)