Browsing by Subject "Cold War"
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A reluctant call to arms : the origins and the development of the Truman Doctrine.
(2016)For nearly seventy years, historians have scrutinized the origins of the Cold War and debated the Truman Doctrine's significance to this international conflict. These sometimes emotional deliberations produced three distinct ... -
The Co-Production of Technoscience and Social Science in Green Revolution Mexico, 1956-1979
(2018)In 1943 the Rockefeller Foundation, nominally in partnership with the Mexican government, initiated its Mexican Agriculture Program (MAP). Over the subsequent decades, a complex network of worldwide inter-governmental/NGO ... -
The Cold War: The Pursuit of Freedom from an Unfreed Nation, The United States of America Undergraduate
(2020-04-24)The end of World War II brought some temporary joy to the United States and many other nations across the globe. Nevertheless, such a joy barely lasted as tension among its wartime ally, the Soviet Union, escalated to what ... -
EXPORTING THE AMERICAN CIVIL WAR TO “OUR NEIGHBOR TO THE SOUTH”: THE CALIFORNIA CIVIL WAR CENTENNIAL AND COLD WAR MEXICO, 1961–1965
(2019)This project is about the California Civil War Centennial Commission’s (CWCC) articulation of California’s contemporary state identity through the lens of Civil War commemoration in the early 1960s. In its task to commemorate ... -
Paranoid politics : a comparison of the use of fear during the Cold War and the Global War on Terror using the paranoid style of American politics.
(2008)Two of the most frightening time periods in modern America have occurred in close proximity to each other. The Cold War pitted the United States against a fierce ideological competitor that pointed its weapons of mass ... -
Telesis 2020
(2020)Front Matter: This edition of Telesis, the University of Oklahoma Gibbs College of Architecture student journal, explores the theme of "Metamedia." -
The Taiwan Straits Crisis of 1954-1955 : the contemplation of going to war over foreign troop morale.
(2013)This study examines the Taiwan Straits Crisis of 1954-55 and how the Eisenhower administration handled the imbroglio and attempts to explain why the crisis lasted for such a long period of time. Secretary of State John ...