Historians have liberally used emperor and, especially so, empire anachronistically and out of its Roman and European context to describe any large state and its ruler in the past and present ; sometimes even to refer to non-monarchically ruled states and their spheres of influence: such examples include the " Athenian Empire " of the late 5th century BC, the " Angevin Empire " of the Plantagenets, or the Soviet and American " empires " of the Cold War era.

King Ottokar's Sceptre could be read against the background of Hitler's Anschluss or in the context of the struggle between the Romanian Iron Guard and the King of Romania, Carol II, whereas later albums-for example, The Calculus Affair-depict the Cold War.

Events and political movements that contributed to Lebanon's violent implosion include, among others, the departure of European colonial powers, the emergence of Arab Nationalism, Arab Socialism in the context of the Cold War, the Arab-Israeli Conflict, Ba ' athism, the Iranian Revolution, Palestinian militants, Black September in Jordan, Islamic fundamentalism, and the Iran – Iraq War.

In the context of the Cold War, Luxembourg clearly opted for the West by joining the North Atlantic Treaty Organization ( NATO ) in 1949, thus renouncing its traditional neutrality, which had determined its international policy since the founding of the state.

In the Cold War context, the term was and is most commonly used by anti-Communists as an accusation of formal fallacy for leftist criticisms of United States foreign policy and military conduct.

While the term has a geographic context, another main definition developed during the Cold War ( approx.

In the context of the Cold War, the WFTU was often portrayed as a Soviet front organization.

In the context of the Cold War, however, anthropologists once again confronted the relationship between politics and science.

Later, Pope John Paul II delivered a Mass in the Saint-Stephen Cathedral during his visit to Metz in 1988 and pleaded in his speech for the European unity in the context of the Cold War.

Bunker penetration weapons were initially designed within this Cold War context.

Other themes include the spectre of nuclear holocaust in the context of the Cold War and the legacy and complexity of General Sherman's own life.

The Bush doctrine emerges in the context of moving from the old Cold War doctrine of deterrence to a pro-active attempt to adjust policy to the realities of the current situation where the threat is just as likely to come from a terrorist group such as al-Qaeda as from a nation state such as Iraq or Iran.

However, this concept soon would not conform to an increasingly icy Cold War context, especially after the Berlin Wall had been erected in 1961 by the East German government.

Current consensus and evidence holds that it was but a failed defensive move in the Cold War, in the context of the Domino Doctrine.

As early as December 1945, politicians worried about the possibility of smuggling nuclear weapons into the United States, though this was still in the context of a battle between the superpowers of the Cold War.

Over the course of the 1990s, with the end of the Cold War, the return to democracy in Latin America, and the thrust toward globalization, the OAS made major efforts to reinvent itself to fit the new context.

The context for the meeting was set by the various crises Africa had faced during the 1980s ; it was inspired by the move toward democratisation in the region that followed those crises, as well as the end of the Cold War.

During World War II the exiled PNV government attempted to join the Allies and settled itself in New York to gain American recognition and support, but soon after the war finished, Franco became an American ally in the context of the Cold War, depriving the PNV any chance for power in the Basque Country.

He would later describe it as " one of UNESCO's great achievements " because of the challenging historical context in which it took place — in particular the ongoing tensions in the Middle East and the Cold War.

It was conducted by the Joint Intelligence Objectives Agency ( JIOA ), and in the context of the burgeoning Soviet – American Cold War ( 1945 – 91 ).

Operation Condor, which took place in the context of the Cold War, had the tacit approval of the United States.

Therefore almost every one of these episodes is ( at least indirectly ) mentioned in the novel and put into a context within the events of the Temporal Cold War.

The story involves a romantic triangle between two top players, an American and a Russian, in a world chess championship, and a woman who manages one and falls in love with the other ; all in the context of a Cold War struggle between the United States and the Soviet Union, during which both countries wanted to win international chess tournaments for propaganda purposes.

" Cold turkey " is a colloquial term indicating abrupt withdrawal from an addictive drug, and in this context indicates sudden and complete cessation of all nicotine use.

In On War, Clausewitz sees all wars as the sum of decisions, actions, and reactions in an uncertain and dangerous context, and also as a socio-political phenomenon.

In the context leading up to the American Civil War ( 1861 – 65 ), on master-slave relationships was one of the Bible verses used by Confederate slaveholders in support of a slaveholding position.

Beginning with the now-iconic phrase " Four score and seven years ago ," referring to the Declaration of Independence during the American Revolution in 1776, Lincoln examined the founding principles of the United States in the context of the Civil War, and memorialized the sacrifices of those who gave their lives at Gettysburg and extolled virtues for the listeners ( and the nation ) to ensure the survival of America's representative democracy, that the " government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.

William was also stadtholder of the main provinces of the Dutch Republic, then in the preliminary stages of joining the War of the Grand Alliance against France, in a context of international tensions caused by the revocation by Louis XIV of the Edict of Nantes and the disputed succession of Cologne and the Electorate of the Palatinate.

* December 1947 – March 1948 Numerous attacks on Palestinian Arabs in the context of Civil War after the vote of the United Nations Partition Plan for Palestine

The works of Josephus provide crucial information about the First Jewish-Roman War and also represent important literary source material for understanding the context of the Dead Sea Scrolls and late Temple Judaism.

* US-Mexican War –- U. S. political context and overview of the military campaign that ended with the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, 1816-1848.

Taekwondo was developed in the context of the Korean War in the 1950s.

Economic growth in the post-World War II period occurred in the context of political stability characterized by authoritarian rule and patronage politics.

The national context ( England and Wales, plus the kingdoms of Scotland and Ireland ) frames the definition of Puritans, but was not a self-identification for those Protestants who saw the progress of the Thirty Years ' War from 1620 as directly bearing on their denomination, and as a continuation of the religious wars of the previous century, carried on by the English Civil Wars.

The February Revolution took place in the context of heavy military setbacks during the First World War ( 1914 – 18 ), which left much of the army in a state of mutiny.

After World War II, Classical scholar Jacqueline de Romilly pointed out that the problem of Athenian imperialism was one of Thucydides ' central preoccupations and situated his history in the context of Greek thinking about international politics.

In Wickard v. Filburn ( 1942 ), in the context of World War II, the Court ruled that federal regulations of wheat production could constitutionally be applied to wheat grown for " home consumption " on a farmthat is, wheat grown to be fed to farm animals or otherwise consumed on the farm.

There are persistent stereotypes about Vietnam veterans as psychologically devastated, bitter, homeless, drug-addicted people who had a hard time readjusting to society, primarily due to the uniquely divisive nature of the Vietnam War in the context of U. S. History.

This theme had occasionally been explored in the context of World War Two in such films as The Best Years of Our Lives ( 1946 ) and The Men ( 1950 ).

The Palmer Raids occurred in the larger context of the Red Scare, the term given to fear of and reaction against political radicals in the U. S. in the years immediately following World War I.

During this time he taught himself the Portuguese language to read the poet Camões in the original ; as insufficient Russian-speaking officers were available at the War Office, his knowledge of the Russian language and textual analysis skills were used to translate a Russian parachute training manual-a task he completed after 11pm on top of his normal duties, deducing the meaning of many technical terms from the context ; he was convinced that the Soviet Union must eventually enter the war on the Allied side.