Sentences with phrase «cold war leader»

The story of Truman's rebuilding of the White House is a snapshot of postwar America and its first Cold War leader, undertaking a job that changed the centerpiece of the country's national heritage.

Cold War leaders Ronald Reagan and Mikhail Gorbachev have been kidnapped by militant extremists.

Not exact matches

[Former Soviet leader Nikita] Khrushchev still had to deal with the Politburo during the most dangerous moment of the Cold War, the Cuban Missile Crisis,» he told an audience of Ukrainian MPs, foreign diplomats, and journalists.

Speaking to NBC News, the Russian leader denied he's sparking a new Cold War after he debuted an arsenal of new weapons.

The Geneva Summit saw President Ronald Reagan and Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev shaking hands in the midst of Cold War tensions.

American leaders since the end of the Cold War have in fact «adhered to a well «defined grand strategy.»

Then there is the sad and, to my mind, unmistakable fact that people who have adopted the so - called «presumption against war» tend to get things wrong, time and again: as the U.S. bishops got the dynamics of the Cold War wrong in their 1983 pastoral letter, «The Challenge of Peace»; as most religious leaders and intellectuals got it wrong in predicting a Middle East Armageddon in the first Gulf War and the recent Iraq Wwar» tend to get things wrong, time and again: as the U.S. bishops got the dynamics of the Cold War wrong in their 1983 pastoral letter, «The Challenge of Peace»; as most religious leaders and intellectuals got it wrong in predicting a Middle East Armageddon in the first Gulf War and the recent Iraq WWar wrong in their 1983 pastoral letter, «The Challenge of Peace»; as most religious leaders and intellectuals got it wrong in predicting a Middle East Armageddon in the first Gulf War and the recent Iraq WWar and the recent Iraq WarWar.

For decades, Turkey's strategic importance in the cold war gave its leaders leverage against any U.S. attempt to recognize the genocide; a Senate resolution commemorating the Armenians in 1974, for example, was shelved.

Countries in Europe, in contrast, which he leaned on U.S. military protection via NATO in the early days after WWII, and which lacked the resources to participate more directly in the Cold War, normalized a lower level of military expenditure, and refrained from making nearly as great an economic commitment to fight wars in the Afghanistan and Iraq as the U.S. did as a leader of those coalitions.

Even in the midst of the Cold War, the ostensibly authoritarian USSR had the Politburo, and it was capable of removing Nikita Kruschchev as the leader, when he was perceived to be reckless.

The idea of exploring their «mental maps» as a way into understanding the international history of a particular era (earlier volumes explored the era of the two world wars and the era of the early Cold War) is to uncover not only what made these leaders unusual but also their sense of the constraints, both domestic and international, with which they were faced, and also the opportunities that might arise.

The Cold War has shaped the Lib Dem leader's outlook in other ways, too.

Liberal Democrat leader Menzies Campbell described Mr Putin's comments as deeply worrying and reminiscent of Cold War rhetoric.

The leather bag up for auction has particular significance as it was attached to Ms Thatcher's arm during Cold War negotiations with US president Ronald Reagan and Soviet Union leader Mikhail Gorbachev.

In a video posted online, the Labour leader hit back at some of Britain's biggest newspapers after he was accused of passing secrets to a Czech spy at the height of the Cold War.

The former Ghanaian leader said while freedom fighters like Kwame Nkrumah could not change some of the problems associated with the Cold War they made pronouncements, which kept the younger growing generation in touch with what was politically desirable.

Chancellor of Germany Angela Merkel had a long standing reputation as an austere leader, reflective of her upbringing in Cold War German Democratic Republic...

Working Paper Series # 1: Michael A. Genovese, Art and Politics: The Political Film as a Pedagogical Tool # 2: Donald B. Morlan, Pre-World War II Propaganda: Film as Controversy # 3: Ernest D. Giglio, From Riefenstahl to the Three Stooges: Defining the Political Film # 4: John W. Williams, The Real Oliver North Loses: The Reel Bob Robert Wins # 5: Robert L. Savage, Popular Film and Popular Communication # 6: Andrew Aoki, «Chan Is Missing:» Liberalism and the Blending of a Kaleidoscopic Culture # 7: Barbara Allen, Using Film and Television in the Classroom to Explore the Nexus of Sexual and Political Violence # 8: Robert S. Robins & Jerrold M. Post, Political Paranoia as Cinematic Motif: Stone's «JFK» # 9: Richard A. Brisbin, Jr., From State and Local Censorship to Ratings: Substantitive Rationality, Political Entrepreneurship, and Sex in the Movies # 10: Stefanie L. Martin, Fiction and Independent Films: Creating Viable Communities and Coalitions by Reappropriating History # 11: Peter J. Haas, A Typology of Political Film # 12: Phillip L. Gianos, The Cold War in U.S. Films: Representing the Political Other # 13: Michael A. Genovese, The President as Icon & Straw Man: Hollywood & the Presidential Image # 14: Michael Krukones, Hollywood's Portrayal of the American President in the 1930s: A Strong and Revered Leader # 15.

In Mike Newell's «Reykjavik», a drama about the meeting between the Russian leader and Ronald Reagan that signaled an end to the Cold War.

Christoph Waltz («Django Unchained») will play Mikhail Gorbachev in Mike Newell's «Reykjavik», a drama about the meeting between the Russian leader and Ronald Reagan that signaled an end to the Cold War.

Christoph Waltz will play former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev opposite Michael Douglas as President Ronald Reagan in «Reykjavik,» a political drama about the end of the Cold War directed by Mike Newell.

His narrative fit snugly within the larger Cold War panic, and as in Minnesota, national business leaders were happy to promote this new movement.

In the past, political coalitions of influential leaders have placed responsibility on schools to solve national political, social, and economic problems ranging from segregation, to Cold War rivalry with the Soviet Union, to the United States» current economic struggle as it competes with global rivals.

This arresting portrait of the Soviet leader who was both hero and villain examines the cold war era he personified.

The Cold War's long reach meant that the United States and the USSR used Jamaica as their playground, with the U.S. funding the JLP (and the Shower Posse) and the USSR funding rival gangs in communities set up by Michael Manley, the PNP leader.

Over this period, the U.S. experienced the Great Depression, two world wars, the Cold War, massive corporate tax hikes, oil crises, stagflation, corrupt and incompetent leaders, the 9/11 attacks, countless scandals in leading corporations, the financial crisis and so on.

Tropico 5 Penultimate Edition allows you to play as El Presidente, leader of a Cuba - like island country as you develop your city and guide the politics of your people through various historical stages, from colonial through to cold war.

allows you to play as El Presidente, leader of a Cuba - like island country as you develop your city and guide the politics of your people through various historical stages, from colonial through to cold war.

About 20 years ago, President Ronald Reagan, standing before the Brandenburg Gate in West Berlin, called on Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev to «tear down this wall,» referring to the infamous Berlin Wall, the symbol of Cold War tensions between East and West.

With Republicans taking control of the House of Representatives in January, it's hard to see meaningful movement any time soon unless forward - looking leaders in that party see beyond the short - term passion for budget cuts and ignore the «gathering storm» in a country living off of intellectual foundations laid during the Cold War and space race.