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Showing 1 to 20 of 878 for “"Cold War"”.
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Derby, Kansas: cold war boomtown
… agricultural and transportation in post-World War II America. With the beginning of the Cold War, however, the federal government began pouring money into the Midwest and West, building up existing, and constructing new, military installations. In addition, federal spending spurred massive new …
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Origins of the Cold War
… in global affairs today stems back to the Cold War, it raises the importance of specific instruction in the origins of the Cold War for today’s students. With the influence our nation possesses, and the integral role of citizenry that students will soon acquire as voters, this project …
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Shakespeare, Decolonisation, and the Cold War
… played in securing British interests during the Cold War and decolonisation. Focusing on a selection of British Council supported tours during the period the relationship between Shakespeare in Britain and Shakespeare abroad is examined. The evolution of touring Shakespeare’s use in cultural …
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NATO's Post-Cold War Internal Adaptations
This decade has seen radical political change in Europe. NATO, as the primary security institution in Europe, has responded to these events by restructuring itself. NATO began by creating a new Strategic Concept based on the threats it foresaw in the new European setting. NATO then adapted its …
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Post-Cold War kids: changing representations of Russia and the Cold War in American children's film, 1992-2001
… is a study of representations of Russia and the Cold War in American children's films from the 1990s. By analyzing nine movies, this work explores the question: what messages about Russia and the Cold War do nineties children's movies contain? This analysis explores the othering of Russian …
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Making and Unmaking the Korean National Division: Separated Families in the Cold War and Post -Cold War Eras
… also explores the diverse effects of the Post-Cold War transformation on separated family members. It demonstrates how the issue of separated families have again been mobilized, but in a different configuration, to promote a new nation-building project in the era of ""national reconciliation"" …
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Anglicanism, anti-communism and Cold War Australia
… nations was necessary to circumvent nuclear war. It will be demonstrated that the hierarchy of the Anglican Church in Australia, and that of some laity, did not support this understanding. The thesis also traces, through church papers and observations of clergy, the increasingly close …
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The Cultural Memory of Britain's Cold War
In recent years the Cold War has increasingly become a popular topic for museums, films, and television series. The sustained popularity of Cold War characters and events continue to bring the Cold War back into the contemporary world and to contemporary audiences. Films, series, and exhibitions …
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Superpower: Romanian women's gymnastics during the cold war
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British science fiction and the Cold War, 1945-1969
… 1945 and 1969 and considers its response to the Cold War. It investigates the generic progression of British SF in the post-war years, assessing the legacy of the pre-war style of scientific romance in selected works from the late 1940s, before exploring its re-engagement with the tradition of …
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Fearless and Fit: American Women of the Cold War
During the Cold War, fitness concerns reached new heights. At the start of the Cold War, Americans became concerned that they were not fit enough to compete with the Soviets. Both governments encouraged citizens to become physically fit. The American government concerned itself with soft' corporate …
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Voices of the Cold War in Britain, 1945 - 1962
… investigates the civilian experience of the Cold War between 1945 and1962 through 44 original oral history interviews with 48 individuals. As the first oral history of everyday life in Cold War Britain it examines the generation born before1945 and the experience of growing up in postwar …
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Russia's Nuclear Doctrine For the Post-Cold War Era
… military force, backed by a credible nuclear warfighting capability, provides the essential means for exercising political and military power throughout the world. The Russians have devised a military doctrine that broadly outlines a blueprint of Russia's goals and objectives. Nuclear weapons …
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Ballistic Missile Defense in the Post-Cold War Era
… equipped with nuclear, chemical and biological warheads. This thesis reviews U.S. ballistic missile defense policies and programs from the inception of the Strategic Defense Initiative, and in the context of the ABM Treaty. While there are several possible ways to deal with the ballistic missile …
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China's security interests in the post-cold war era
… of a wider definition of security, in the post-Cold War era. First and foremost, it must be stated that the concept of security here is broadly conceived, which is congruent to the Chinese emphasis on comprehensiveness (quan mian hua). In particular, this thesis aims to incorporate non-military …
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Scientists and the Ethics of Cold War Weapons Research
… through the changing politics and economy of the Cold War. After the development of the atomic bomb, the Manhattan Project generation of physicists posed a series of troubling ethical questions: To what extent are scientists responsible for the military applications of their work? What are the …
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