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Although «third world country» has come to mean an underdeveloped / impoverished nation, the term stems from the Cold War when the US and the USSR were the first and second worlds (along with their allies), and everyone not allied with the two superpowers was part of the third world.

A dramatic thriller set against the backdrop of a series of historic events, DreamWorks Pictures / Fox 2000 Pictures» Bridge of Spies, starring Tom Hanks and directed by Steven Spielberg, tells the story of James Donovan, a Brooklyn lawyer who finds himself thrust into the center of the Cold War when the CIA sends him on the near - impossible task to negotiate the release of a captured American U-2 pilot.

A dramatic thriller set against the backdrop of historical events and directed by Steven Spielberg, Bridge of Spies centers on Brooklyn Lawyer James Donovan (Tom Hanks) who is thrust into the center of the Cold War when the CIA sends him to negotiate the release of a captured American U-2 pilot.

The film is the true story of James Donovan, an attorney who finds himself thrust into the center of the Cold War when the CIA sends him on the near - impossible mission to negotiate the release of a captured American U-2 pilot.

It's important to note this was at the height of the Cold War when the Soviets were doing their best to spread communism in South America.

A dramatic thriller set against the backdrop of a series of historic events, DreamWorks Pictures / Fox 2000 Pictures» «Bridge of Spies» tells the story of James Donovan, a Brooklyn lawyer who finds himself thrust into the center of the Cold War when the CIA sends him on the near - impossible task to neg... Read On

Tom Hanks stars in the film as James Donovan, an insurance lawyer who was pushed headfirst into the frosty depths of the Cold War when he had to negotiate for the release of downed U2 spy plane pilot Gary Powers (Austin Stowell) after the airman was shot down over Russia.

Set against the backdrop of a series of historic events, Bridge of Spies tells the story of James Donovan (Hanks), a Brooklyn lawyer who finds himself thrust into the center of the Cold War when the CIA sends him on the near - impossible task to negotiate the release of a captured American U-2 pilot.

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It is worth noting however, that the period of dictatorships in East Asia, was during the Cold War when western allies were busy forming alliances as opposed to the situation now where they act as global watchdogs for human rights and respect for the rule of law.

«My father made numerous trips during the Cold War when Eastern Europe and Russia were under Communism and built relationships with the churches in those countries.

Every person alive on the 71st anniversary of those attacks holds in their flesh radioactive remnants of the nuclear era — a period centered in the early decades of Cold War when nuclear nations conducted atmospheric tests of ever - larger bombs.

Not exact matches

Looking to the success of the post Cold War - era, when the world dismantled 90 % of its nuclear weapons, Nunn and Lugar maintain that safe denuclearization can be achieved with proper planning.

«I was here visiting just a few days before the visit of President Obama, and I remember at the time there was much talk about Cuba strengthening relations with both the European Union and the United States,» Mogherini said, when asked by reporters about the Trump administration's partial rollback of a fragile detente between the old Cold War foes.

One of the very greatest acts of statesmanship in the postwar world was when the founding chancellor of the German Federal Republic (West Germany), Konrad Adenauer, declined Stalin's offer of reunification in exchange for German neutrality in the Cold War.

It dates back to the early 1960s, when America was in a Cold War with Russia.

Like, when we were fighting the Cold War, we were more sure then, I think.

When the histories of Cold War 2.0 are written, the attempted assassination of Sergei Skripal on March 4 of this year will appear as a turning point.

When there are military adventures taking place, just viewed from the really cold angle of what does that do to investment opportunities, you find that the risk of war or intervention hits markets hard when that risk is just taking shWhen there are military adventures taking place, just viewed from the really cold angle of what does that do to investment opportunities, you find that the risk of war or intervention hits markets hard when that risk is just taking shwhen that risk is just taking shape.

2) The notion of the U.S. as a «Christian Country» is revisionist history that started during the Cold War (when, for example, «under God» was inserted into the Pledge of Allegiance, where for sixty years prior it had been absent) and continues today with people like Rick Santorum «wanting to vomit» at the notion of a secular nation.

During the 1950s and 1960s, when Pete Seeger and Malvina Reynolds coaxed classrooms full of kids to join them in the singing of folk songs, no one paid much attention, not even those who, in the middle of the Cold War, saw America's «singing left» as a threat to the republic....

When you add more context, information, «Cold War» references, and to «focus on unity,» however, the numbers shift.

But the horror stories you hear — where aid just helps a dictator build new palaces — mostly come from a time when aid was designed to win allies for the Cold War rather than to improve people's lives.

Government propaganda encouraged an apocalyptic worldview during the cold war, as it does now, when we wage an open - ended «war on terrorism.»

His political biography shows the nature of his alignments: social disillusionment with both capitalism and Marxism; embracement of pacifism, and then the abandonment of it during the rise of American isolationism and European fascism in the 1930s; the championing of U.S. intervention in World War II and a cold war stratagem to contain Soviet power; and indictment of the pretensions of American messianism and scientism when the U.S. first intervened militarily in Viet Nam under John F. KenneWar II and a cold war stratagem to contain Soviet power; and indictment of the pretensions of American messianism and scientism when the U.S. first intervened militarily in Viet Nam under John F. Kennewar stratagem to contain Soviet power; and indictment of the pretensions of American messianism and scientism when the U.S. first intervened militarily in Viet Nam under John F. Kennedy.

Really, when you think about it, had the Cold War turned hot we could have blamed atheism for at least half the worlds destruction.

The Cold War was a period of moral clarity when the other side really was an evil empire, and when armed resolve for once succeeded in defeating the expansion of evil in the world.

We had this problem during the Cold War, too, when fascist Spain and Portugal, and militarily - ruled Greece and Turkey, were members of NATO.

«Some Germans even lament the loss of the good old days during the Cold War, when everything seemed cozier and more obvious,» Spieker said.

However, when the Cold War ended, the capitalist elite was no longer much concerned about these matters.

So while the Putin regime is not averse to brutality when it can get away with it (e.g., murdering domestic political opponents like Alexander Litvinenko, Anna Politkovskaya, and Boris Nemtsov), its international tactics in this new, cooler Cold War are more discreet.

In 1962 the Cold War space race turned deadly when Soviet colonel Peter Dolgov leaped from his Red Army balloon at 86,156 feet.

To know him you must gird as for war and wade the rivers when they are bitter cold — in sleet - filled gloom, or in freezing blue weather when the leafless alders gleam in pale sunlight along the streams, and ice forms in the guides of your rod.

Leaving aside those cold places in history where fascism, sport and war have coincided, when people have played football in the fear that the wrong result could cost them their lives, this Brazil side that will compete for the 2014 World Cup are about to embark on the most pressurised footballing campaign of all time.

When the Cold War got underway, tensions flared.

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 current situation in Syria is strong evidence of a more ancient and enduring norm from imperial and Cold War days: when a strong repressive state has one or two very powerful allies it can easily resist the wider will of international society and public morality.

This historical strategic culture was shaken to its core during the Cold War, when the Soviet Union became capable of conducting devastating nuclear strikes on U.S. territory, which ceased to be a sanctuary.

The core was liberation from colonialism at a time when the Cold War was still at its height on the African continent.

In the 1950s, at the height of the Cold War, Joseph Boakye Danquah, one of the revered founding fathers of our nation, stated, when defining the vision and policy of our party, that: «Our duty is to liberate the energies of the people for the growth of a property - owning democracy in this land, with a right to life, and freedom and justice as the principles to which the government and laws of the land should be dedicated to in order specifically to enrich the lives, property and liberty of each and every citizen.»

When you look at the geographical locations of important cold war hotspots like Vietnam, Korea or Cuba, you see their strategic importance.

When we face a new threat to our country from terrorist organisations, destabilised regions of the world or cyber attacks, is a nuclear deterrent designed for the Cold War era still relevant?

Back when the cold war was raging, diplomatic relations between eastern communist governments and western democracies were awful.

Relations with Putin's Russia are deteriorating daily, and when it was the Soviet Union, there was a thing called the Cold War.

Mr Clegg said it was «dangerous» to commit tens of billions of pounds to a Cold War era weapons system, when US President Barack Obama saw the threats of the future coming from terrorists and failed states against which Trident would be no use.

However, if you'll note the timeframe when all of those things were officially added, it was during the height of the Cold War and anti-Communist hysteria in the USA.

Yet the Cold War had been over for nearly five years, and we were on good terms with Boris Yeltsin, when the SIS hired Colonel Skripal of the Russian GRU (Main Military Intelligence Directorate).

He was fresh out of high school when he volunteered as a sonar operator in the Swedish navy for his national service at the tail end of the Cold War.

The Bulletin — and the clock --- were at their most optimistic in 1991, when the Cold War thawed and the United States and Russia began cutting their arsenals.

That was the height of the Cold War, when nuclear arms and rhetoric escalated, and President Ronald Reagan envisioned a space - based anti-missile «shield» — promptly dubbed «Star Wars» by skeptics — that could thwart attacks by the «Evil Empire,» also known as the -LSB-...]