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