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Origins of the Cold War
The United States continues its role as a world superpower in the 21st century. Since much of our involvement 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 …
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Shakespeare, Decolonisation, and the Cold War
This study considers the role that touring Shakespeare productions 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 …
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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
This thesis examines British Science Fiction between 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 …
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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
This thesis 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 …
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Surface combatant planning since the end of the Cold War
… 1988 to 116 in 1998. This reduction was part of the U.S. military transformation in the post-Cold War period. This thesis examined the major factors that influenced the change in surface combatant planning since 1990, i. e. budget agreements, naval doctrine, OPNAV reorganization, and Defense …
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The British press and the origins of the Cold War
During the prelude to the Cold War a substantial section of the British press gave a noticeably cool response to the new line towards Soviet Russia proposed first by Churchill at Fulton from Opposition and pursued subsequently at the policy-making level by Ernest Bevin and the Foreign Office. These …
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Compassionate Containment: The Cold War Origins of American Evangelical Humanitarianism
<p>“Let my heart be broken for the things which break the heart of God.” This simple prayer came to represent the core mission of World Vision founder Bob Pierce’s life. It also serves as a concise summation of the outlook of the multitude of evangelical humanitarian organizations that sprang up …
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Trauma Of Empire: Violence, Minor Affect, And The Cold War Transpacific
… Asian American literature to examine how the aftereffects of U.S. Cold War violence and trauma manifest themselves in minor subjectivities. In the texts I explore, peripheral subjects, whose physical and psychic dislocations stem from Cold War dynamics between Asia and the United States, …
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Life Between Two Panels: Soviet Nonconformism in the Cold War Era
Beneath the facade of total conformity in the Soviet Union, a dynamic underground community of artists and intellectuals worked in forced isolation. Rejecting the mandates of state-sanctioned Socialist Realist art, these dissident artists pursued diverse creative directions in their private …
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Soviet culture and cultural exchange in Mexico during the Cold War
This dissertation examines the interaction between Mexican intellectuals and the Soviet Union through the lens of editorial practices in the aftermath of World War II (1944-1958). It focuses on the role of the Mexican journals Cultura Soviética (1944-1955) and Intercambio Cultural (1955-1958) in …
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Evolution of U.S. Strategy in Latin America After the Cold War
In the years after the Cold War it appears that the U.S. distanced itself from Latin America. The region has begun to integrate itself in the world political economy without exclusively depending on the U.S. The integration has included engagement with extra-hemispheric states, such as China and …
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Reagan, Central America and the Human Costs to Waging the Cold War
Since the introduction of the Monroe Doctrine in 1823, the United States has maintained a sphere of influence in Latin America. This hegemony has yielded beneficial results, such as the Panama Canal, and at times, has caused more harm than good. The later result has been the dominant outcome …
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Shaken, Not Stirred: Espionage, Fantasy, and British Masculinity During the Cold War
<p>This project seeks to define and explore the development of Cold War British masculinity and national identity in response to decolonization. Following World War II, Great Britain experienced a time of political and cultural rebuilding. This project argues that following World War II, Britain …
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