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… the assumption that multiethnic nationhood, which African nationalists constructed from the inherited colonial … full-blown civil war between Biafra and the rest of the union. With its massive air power and large army, the … weighed in on the conflict: Great Britain and the Soviet Union openly sided with the Federal Government of …

… In July 1956, the international order was disrupted by the Suez Crisis, a … anti-Western nationalism across the region and give the Soviet Union an opportunity for political gain. President Dwight D. … Diplomacy/International Relations … Global/Transnational …

… is a key characteristic of how Americans view their national history and the evolution of U.S. society—an … histories, and continues to shape understandings of their national identities. And the idea of Hacer América —the … centuries, Latin America was a primary destination for international migrants from all over the world. With the dawning …

… in Nuremberg, Germany, was a hub of activity. The International Military Tribunal (IMT)—the first major effort to … from the United States, Great Britain, France, and the Soviet Union—the four major Allied powers—had worked together, at … International Organizations …

… Wiggins  President Obama thrust Cuba-US relations into the national spotlight with the historic announcement in … spent time to write and fish, where the US and the Soviet Union perhaps came closest to nuclear warfare, and where a … Diplomacy/International Relations …

… participate in the 1980 Moscow Olympics in response to the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan; the Soviet bloc retaliated … joint talk show that “there is no sex in the Soviet Union. We are categorically against it!” Her reference was … to “the revision of norms of morality and ethics and erase national traditions.” Russia, Olympics, and Homosexuality …

… colonial administrators, postcolonial development experts, nationalists, eugenicists, feminists, and family planners … which demonized some women’s reproduction as the cause of national and planetary catastrophe. To tell this story, … poverty and crises of subsistence, migration and claims of national sovereignty, normative heterosexuality and drives …

… President Bush is responding to national disaster by assuming the mantle of Presidents … 11 was the clearest proof that, despite the fall of the Soviet Union, the Cold War gave us no real security. The Cold War …

… Dr. Aaron Retish, historian and expert in late Imperial and Soviet history at Wayne State University.   Dr. Aaron … French culture and the impact of war and personal and national identities.   Julie Powell    Hello.    Jessica … periphery, to the United States, and ultimately the Soviet Union, as a result of the First World War and also the shift …

… cultural heritage, check out Putting Race on Display: The National Civil Rights Museum , A Postcard from Warsaw, …   Dr. Steven Conn:     If we were to look at what the Soviet Union took out of Eastern Europe during and in the wake of …

… particular historical resonance, coming 50 years after the Soviet Union sent up the world's first artificial satellite in … times, made the same types of rational calculations about national self-interest as their U.S. counterparts. This gave …

… connections to that time.” The AIDS Memorial Quilt on the National Mall in Washington, D.C. in 1987. Turning numbers … was no lasting legacy in Russia of the First World War. The Soviet state remembered the war as an “imperialist” conflict … effect on state politics in what would become the Soviet Union and its reverberations across the world. On August 1, …

… to reduce the staff of the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) to 15 people and move it fully … and it was not developing much at all.  Meanwhile, the  Soviets  had gotten better at foreign aid over the course of … As the divide between the United States and the Soviet Union grew, development was given a new purpose. Officials …

… its ends. Lincoln spoke at Gettysburg to honor the Union dead after the battle near that small Pennsylvania town, a bloodbath that turned Civil War in the Union’s favor. In only 266 words, he redefined the Union … M. Schocket is author of “Founding Corporate Power in Early National Philadelphia” and director of American Culture …

… 14.80 percent in July of 2015 (according to the INDEC, the national statistics institute). And these official numbers … they were comparable to Western Europe. The increase in union jobs fostered the development of a robust middle class … numerous loans. Conditions worsened as the government began union-busting under the pretext that unions were housing …

… say the Games help create mutual understanding and international peace. Our willingness to accept this lofty … the wrong reason. Proponents say the Olympics create international harmony because the Games are apolitical. But the … observers thought that all those gold medals piled up by Soviet and East German athletes were a sign that the "Free …

… United States wasn’t the only nation that aspired to international leadership. The rise of the Soviet Union, in many ways the ideological & economic foil to the …

… than the earlier treaties that produced today’s European Union (EU). In fact, the constitution failed in part because … currency is governed by a European board, beyond direct national control. An EU supreme court sometimes does battle … Europe closest to political unity. Threats from Stalin’s Soviet Union pushed six countries to sign up for a unified …

… During the 1920s and 1930s, the  Kuomintang (KMT, the nationalist party led by Chiang Kai-shek) generally … the emerging Cold War between the United States and  the Soviet Union . Many in the West perceived the establishment of a  … Diplomacy/International Relations …

… of such wrongdoing or impotence, to the exercise of an international police power.” This policy was first executed to … and often beat, groups of Marines. This period sparked a national craze for baseball. Once the last U.S. troops left … the Marine Honor Guard shortly after his arrival at Union Station in Washington D.C. on July 6, 1939. By 1937, …

… enormous legal problem that put at risk the future of international law as we know it. For these writers, the … Serbia positioned itself with Europe and the European Union, many EU politicians undoubtedly expected Serbia to … yet fully external obstacle to Serbia's road to joining the Union. However, the conspiracy accomplished its goals: EU …

… and violence.  While President Nayib Bukele and the National Police reported very few homicides during these … campesinos to help form labor organizations such as the Union of Rural Workers ( Union de Trabajadores Campesinos , UTC) in 1974 in …

… to produce the first constitution and even longer to hold national elections. Debates raged over whether Pakistan … plotting a coup. The government then cracked down on trade unions and several prominent writers. A few months later, … two of a series of alliances designed to contain the Soviet Union. India, a founder of the Non-Aligned Movement, …