Essays on Cold War

The Early Cold War period in Britain was a time of nationwide uncertainty. Britain was continuously trying to keep up with its allied superpower, America. An abundance of fiction was written by authors such as Ian Fleming, who created James Bond. Bond was a prominent...

When the Soviet Union successfully obtained functioning nuclear weapon technology in 1949, the people of the world were forced to face the prospect of their potential annihilation should the US and USSR come into direct conflict. During the Cold War, the resurgence of domestic religious...

18 years ago, in 1991, it was the year that the Cold war had ended. More than four decades of the geopolitical tension between two superpower nations – the Unites States and the Soviet Union, however, there are still a lot of debates going on...

¨Initially, it seemed to many that the three victorious World War II powers…would cooperate to maintain the peace that they had bought at, so dreadfully, a cost in blood and money¨. In February 1945, world superpower leaders Truman, Churchill, and Stalin met in Potsdam to...

During the early 1950s, a tragic witch hunt for communists took place. Wisconsin Senator Joseph McCarthy accused more and more communists as the decade continued. However, he eventually went too far by accusing the army of being in favor of communists. During nationally televised hearings,...

In puritan America, it had fewer laws and was supported religion, and if people didn’t represent the conventional category they were called witches and were thought to possess and sold their souls to the devil. Communism could be a classless society where everything is that...

In Arthur Miller’s, The Crucible, paranoia, and suspicion loom over Salem Village as the story of the witch trials begins to unfold. In 1862, Reverend Parris kneels before the bed of his daughter Betty to pray to God that she wakes from her comatose state....

Propaganda can be defined as a mode of communicating which is used to manipulate and influence public opinion in support of the propagandist’s belief. Propagandas take shape in art, movies, speeches and music over the years, but it is not restricted to forms like these....

The idea of socialism had been making the rounds in European intellectual circles when in 1948 Karl Marx published the Communist Manifesto. He believed to create an equal society it needed to be classless and stateless, and that to achieve this (and the liberation of...

The years after the Second World War was full of unrest for Vietnam. The Vietnam war which simply started off as what seemed to be civilians trying to gain independence became more of a common ground for the superpowers to express their influences in relation...