Sentences with phrase «early cold war»

In recent decades, Presidents Ronald Reagan and George H.W. Bush embodied the patriotism and national bravado of the early Cold War in the 1950s — an unyielding belief in American Exceptionalism.

A twenty - first century paper about the early Cold War in Berlin will be almost nothing like a similar paper from 1995.

In his early Cold War novels, John le Carré referred to something called «Moscow Rules»: the tradecraft used by spies in a hostile city when they had to be super-cautious to avoid getting caught.

The covers nearly four decades, constantly shifting between the events surrounding the aftermath of the botched CIA - sponsored «Bay of Pigs» attempt at overthrowing Fidel Castro and those of Edwards» formative years, mostly including his dealing with the spy operations that took place in the World War II and early Cold War eras.

This AAAS Archives special exhibit includes an online text on the significance of Golden's efforts and a searchable database of over 200 documents.Impacts of the Early Cold War on the Formulation of U.S. Science Policy This online volume contains selected memoranda from this collection.

He is author of Gustav Stresemann: Weimar's Greatest Statesman, Germany and the Origins of the Second World War, and co-editor of Liberalism, Anti-Semitism and Democracy, Britain and Germany in Europe, 1945 - 90, Mental Maps in the Era of Two World Wars and Mental Maps in the Era of the Early Cold War 1945 - 68.

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 very logic of the early cold war forced the church into a defense of liberalism and democracy to a degree unprecedented since the French Revolution.

Part serial - killer thriller, part old - school anti-Soviet propaganda, «Child 44» plays like a curious relic of an earlier Cold War mindset, when Western audiences took comfort that they were living on the right side of the Iron Curtain and relied on movies...

Not exact matches

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.

Since the end of the Cold War in the early 1990s, governments worldwide have been looking toward a «peace dividend,» an across - the - board decline in military spending.

«Ambassador Power's rhetoric is entirely hollow,» Russian affairs expert Mark Kramer, the program director of the Project on Cold War Studies at Harvard, told Business Insider earlier this week.

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

Eight months earlier, in March 2016, President Barack Obama had swept into town to commemorate the two countries» historic rapprochement, vowing to bury «the last remnant of the Cold War in the Americas.»

During oversight debate earlier this year, former CIA head John McCone urged that the cold - war consensus be rebuilt.

Like Tocqueville, he acknowledged that in many ways America was exceptional and that, marshaled to extraordinary power, our ideals had done and could do much good in the world; hence his criticism of Christian pacifism in the 1930s and defense of the Cold War in its early years.

Walter Russell Mead was an early advocate of expanding American power in the vacuum left by the end of the cold war, and he supported the Iraq War in 20war, and he supported the Iraq War in 20War in 2003.

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By all the measures of conventional religiosity the early «50s had been a period of - religious revival, but the revival of the «50s proved to be as artificial as the Cold War atmosphere that may have fostered it.

Although the Cold War divided the globe, bishops who gathered in Rome in the early 1960s recognized a trend of growing interdependence among nations, one moving toward a «single world community.»

Had I come of age during the great crisis of 1914 — 1945, or even during the tense, early decades of the Cold War, it's likely I, too, would have sought to defuse the consolidated energies of sovereign peoples, which is what the founders of what became the European Union did in the years after the wWar, it's likely I, too, would have sought to defuse the consolidated energies of sovereign peoples, which is what the founders of what became the European Union did in the years after the warwar.

Hockey in the 70's / early 80's was a continuation of the Cold War.

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.

Domestically, defense spending was something that had bipartisan support during WWII and in the early days of the Cold War, and continued to be a signature issue of one of the two major political parties, the Republicans, whose members were much more likely to have been military veterans than Democrats, and who held a more antagonistic view of Communism which was nominally a politically left leaning ideology.

Nevertheless, the sense of strain noted earlier has the potential to go beyond the divergences in transatlantic ties we have witnessed in earlier decades (notably in the Cold War era) and a growing sentiment that we are on the cusp of a possibly more significant transformation in the US - European relationship.

Most of those were relatively early in the Cold War (ie less nuclear threat) and were either peripheral allies or there were other factors at play (Yugoslavia took advantage of Russian instability at the end of the Cold War)

X-Men: First Class Set early in the Cold War, this origin story rejuvenates the mutants» flagging franchise with a likable cast, snappy effects, and sly nods to the future for fans who know how the story ends.

After the ban, space - based surveillance became a crucial component of the Cold War, with satellites serving as one part of elaborate early - warning systems on alert for the deployment or launch of ground - based nuclear weapons.

The resulting musical is a surprising, and surprisingly humane and earthy, escapade based on the Greenham Common women's peace camp, a lengthy women - only protest at the siloing of nuclear missiles at the RAF Greenham Common airbase in the UK around the early 1980s — the height of the cold war.

When the Atlantic Navigator docked in Baltimore harbor earlier this month, the freighter carried the last remnants of some of the nuclear weapons that the Soviet Union had brandished in the cold war.

«It is something we should be pushing for,» Laruelle said, noting earlier conservation measures, as well as cooperation on space exploration during the Cold War.

From the early 1950s to the end of the cold war, nearly 250,000 animals were systematically irradiated.

Although civilian Arctic science progressed with regular international collaborations during the Cold War, the distant early warning line, or DEW line, united western Arctic nations in a more concrete way.

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Set in Communist East Germany in the early 1980s, cold war paranoia is in full view in Christian Petzold's Barbara, winner of the Silver Berlin Bear for Best Director at the Berlinale.

Set in America at a time in which Cold War paranoia and the Civil Rights injustices of the early 1960s have created an oppressive atmosphere for those on the margins of society, it's the story of a mute - since - childhood cleaner (Sally Hawkins) who falls for the amphibious humanoid (Doug Jones) being experimented upon at the underground research facility where she works.

It's the early 1960s and a top - secret, Cold War - era government facility is where all the magic is about to happen.

Yesterday we got a new poster for Guy Ritchie's The Man From U.N.C.L.E. and now a second trailer has arrived online for the spy caper, which you can check it out below... Set against the backdrop of the early 1960s, at the height of the Cold War, The Man from U.N.C.L.E. centers on U.N.C.L.E. agents -LSB-...]

Set against the backdrop of the early 1960s, at the height of the Cold War, The Man from U.N.C.L.E. centers on CIA agent Napoleon Solo (Henry Cavill) and KGB agent Illya Kuryakin (Armie Hammer), two foes forced to put aside their differences, to team up on a joint mission to stop a mysterious international criminal organization, bent on creating nuclear weapons with the goal of world domination.

A new image from Guy Ritchie's The Man from U.N.C.L.E has been released, featuring stars Henry Cavill (Man of Steel) and Armie Hammer (The Lone Ranger)... Set against the backdrop of the early 1960s, at the height of the Cold War, The Man from U.N.C.L.E. centers on U.N.C.L.E. agents Napoleon Solo and Illya Kuryakin.

Earlier this week we got the final trailer for The Man from U.N.C.L.E. [watch it here], and now we have three clips from the Guy Ritchie - directed spy caper, which you can below... Set against the backdrop of the early 1960s, at the height of the Cold War, The Man from U.N.C.L.E. centers on U.N.C.L.E. agents -LSB-...]

Thanks to the latest issue of Empire, we've got a batch of images from Guy Ritchie's upcoming spy caper The Man from U.N.C.L.E, which stars Henry Cavill (Man of Steel) and Armie Hammer (The Lone Ranger)... Set against the backdrop of the early 1960s, at the height of the Cold War, The Man from U.N.C.L.E. -LSB-...]

Set against the backdrop of the early 1960s, at the height of the Cold War, The Man from U.N.C.L.E. centers on U.N.C.L.E. agents Napoleon Solo and Illya Kuryakin.

We got a new trailer earlier this month [watch it here], and now another poster has arrived online for Guy Ritchie's upcoming big screen adaptation of The Man from U.N.C.L.E., featuring the Man of Steel himself Henry Cavill... Set against the backdrop of the early 1960s, at the height of the Cold War, The Man -LSB-...]

BK: I'd read enough to know that Thompson had spent this year abroad in the early 1960s, reporting on Cold War issues from South America, and it occurred to me this must have been a pretty pivotal time in the life of a writer I admired.

Over the past forty - plus years, the British filmmaker has put together one of the most diverse and innovative filmographies you can imagine — from her early experimental work, to her fourth - wall - breaking classic of gender fluidity, Orlando (1992), to the minimalist dance - romance The Tango Lesson (1997), in which she played herself, to the Cold War coming - of - age drama Ginger & Rosa (2012).

Directed by Tomas Alfredson, the Swedish filmmaker who so effectively brought a tangible sense of horror and pathos to the terrific vampire thriller Let the Right One In, the film is set in the early 1970s in an England still wrestling its way through the Cold War.

During the Cold War America of the early 1960s, a government operative brings a mysterious «asset» to a high - security laboratory for observation and experimentation.

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Ant - Man first takes us back to the Cold War - era version of the MCU, where Peggy Carter, Howard Stark and their allies worked for the early version of S.H.I.E.L.D. alongside a brilliant scientist named Hank Pym (Michael Douglas).