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… set of legacies for how we think about Cold War international relations, twentieth-century genocidal and sexual violence , and the limits of international law in post-conflict societies. Map of the 1947 … War. Fearing that an Indian victory would pave the way for Soviet domination in the region, the United States did what …

… principal champion of freedom in a global struggle with the Soviet Union and its Communist allies. Both the Soviet Union and America’s European allies had already … Diplomacy/International Relations …

… The next morning, small groups of students at Chonnam National University in Gwangju awoke to a severe military … widely available through major streaming platforms for international audiences.  Works like these reenact “what … to erase and distort Gwangju’s history in the name of national unity. Right-wing media and their powerful …

… As national governments and the global scientific community … in part, by Ohio Humanities, a state affiliate of the National Endowment for the Humanities. Any views, findings, … in this content do not necessarily represent those of the National Endowment for the Humanities. …

… and sought terms with the Algerian Front de Libération Nationale (National Liberation Front [FLN]). In their eyes, peace was … of their ability to win support among the masses to a nationalist movement that had succeeded not only in gaining …

… issue seldom garners such rapt attention. As members of national health insurance plans, most Western European women … in the interwar years due in part to American fears of Soviet communism. While the Soviets had been the first in the world to legalize abortion …

… South Africa, he claimed, Ottawa could maximize its international influence. Together, he argued, the Commonwealth …   Nonetheless, Halifax’s public comments ignited a national political crisis. Left-leaning Canadian nationalists, most of whom lived in French-speaking Quebec …

… the 150th anniversary of the state's secession from the Union.  Hundreds of people, many decked out in hoop skirts … raged in Charleston since 1865.   When the city fell to the Union army that year, local freedpeople staged public …  African Americans in Charleston also built a cemetery for Union soldiers who had died as prisoners of war, and they …

… the worst excesses of McCarthyism. De Klerk came from a National Party apparatus that had cracked down on … the Chinese (and pursue the subsequent detente with the Soviets) without such fears. His record as an ardent Cold … motives. Similarly, only a staunch member of South Africa’s National Party, the party that had implemented and perfected …

… to create of a Board of Agriculture including "one or more national agricultural schools upon the basis of the naval … is such that many jobs require advanced training. Wired and National Public Radio's "Planet Money" recently teamed up to …

… destiny, even at the risk of confrontation with the international community. In persuading the Iranian government to … Mohammad Mossadegh shocked the world when he moved to nationalize British oil assets. However, the American … Anglo-Iranian Oil Company in 1953, it was not a move toward Soviet communism, but rather an anti-colonial blow against …

… the Republican Party and, as it evolved during the war, the Union Party. Some simply disliked or distrusted one another. … more than a year into the war. In December 1862, after the Union’s embarrassing defeat at Fredericksburg, all but one … helped build the Republican Party in his state. He had no national ambitions and his management of the Navy Department …

… 2017, SpaceX CEO Elon Musk took the stage at the 68th International Astronautical Congress in Adelaide, Australia. Musk … of the Cold War Space Race, leaders of the American and Soviet space programs envisioned Mars as humankind’s first … launched and landed Viking spacecraft on Mars, the Soviet Union developed and tested closed life-support systems …

… the dangers involved in allowing scientific knowledge and national security to justify what the New York Times  … when they were accidentally discovered in 2010. The U.S. National Institutes of Health and the Pan American Sanitary … need to be continually re-examined and enforced (even when national security is raised as the justification). Also, …

… many to enjoy and then crave chili.  Chili arrived on the national table at the 1893 World’s Fair in Chicago , which …

… America’s growing vulnerabilities. The U.S. Commission on National Security/21st century, a task force chaired by … were needed in intelligence methods, in the structure of national security agencies and in government preparation to … stressed that homeland  security is not peripheral to U.S. national security but central to it. Prophetically, the …

… to resist the West. Neo-Confucianism would be replaced by nationalist thought, which would bring down the Qing Empire … would carry into the Communist Era. Sun Yat-Sen deified nationalist thought and Chiang Kai-Shek built a strong … that threatened his rule. Mühlhahn points to the Sino-Soviet Split as a crucial moment: it spurred Mao to launch …

… Vietnam-era draft, which all would agree fell short as a national policy. The draft system of the 1960s and 1970s … connections, such as George W. Bush, snatched up scarce National Guard commissions that enabled them to avoid the … II, despite segregation. And Irish Americans served in the Union army in high numbers during theÝ Civil War, even …

… feuds culminate in a lone U.S. plane flying low over the Soviet countryside, determined to drop its nuclear payload onto a Soviet military base. They succeed, and in doing so set off … entendre “Merkin Muffley,” has a relationship with the Soviet Premier less befitting two world leaders and more …

… discussion is this: do huge bags of money really affect national politics as much as many fear? The answer is more … work on election day. We could say this one lasts until, national level 1880s, 90ish, local state level longer than … brief period of time, beginning in the mid-70s, when in the national level, there was a kind of a Rube Goldberg …