Although widely used in naval warfare, and in anti-air guns, both the British and Americans feared unexploded proximity fuses would be reverse engineered leading to them limiting its use in continental battles.

For example, in the early 20th century, many Americans feared polio, a disease that cripples the body part it affects, leaving that body part immobilized for the rest of one's life.

German-American and ethnic Irish nearly lost control of the organization, and feared its goals were going to be lost in the broad-based, democratic egalitarianism promoted by the Americans.

As a consequence, later, just as the Comanche society was breaking down, the once respected and feared Penatʉka Nʉʉ provided U. S. Army Indian Scouts for the Americans and Texans against their still fighting and free-roaming Comanche kin.

Many Americans feared a floodgate scenario with a large and sudden increase of the refugee population, but the 50, 000 cap would only account for 10 % of immigration flow to the U. S. and would allow one refugee for every 4, 000 Americans, small numbers compared to those of countries like Canada, France and Australia.

Seen as a strong tight knit society led by powerhouse men who were opposed to any change that weakened their positions, many white Americans feared Indian tribes and sought out immediate reformation.

* 1781-In the midst of the American Revolutionary War, the British so feared Moravian missionary David Zeisberger and his influence among the Lenape ( also called Delaware ) and other Native Americans that they arrested him and his assistant, John Heckewelder, charging them with treason,

The Southern Philippines with the Moros were never really conquered by the Spaniards and the Americans ; nor the Northern mountains of Luzon with their feared headhunter tribes so they kept their weapons and their fighting skills.

" Lyndon Johnson's unilateral decision on 31 March to curtail the bombing of North Vietnam only confirmed what Thiệu already feared, that the Americans were going to abandon South Vietnam to the communists.

On the other hand, especially in the Midwest, many Irish Americans and German Americans opposed any American involvement, the Irish because they hated the British, and the Germans because they feared they would come under attack.

Many feared the establishment of Catholicism in Quebec, and that the French Canadians were being courted to help oppress British Americans.

Relations between the occupation forces and German and Austrian women were seen with suspicion by the locals, who feared that the Americans would impregnate their women and then leave the children to be cared for by the local communities.

The Americans ' position on San Juan was exposed to artillery fire from within Santiago, and General Shafter feared the vulnerability of the American position on Kettle Hill to counter-attack by Spanish forces.

Once the Americans abandoned their Skylab station in 1974, the Apollo-Salyut concept seemed to be the logical choice, but since the Soviets had started to develop a universal docking adapter for the mission and feared having to publicly reveal details of their military-focused Salyut missions, the two powers opted to link a Soyuz spacecraft with an Apollo spacecraft.

This had the effect of further dissuading British officials from hanging prisoners, despite the abandoned hopes of a settlement by this stage, as they feared reprisals on prisoners being held by the Americans.

It was also feared that Americans studying on the island might be taken hostage.

Instead he shows many Americans feared " Mexicanization " of politics, whereby force would be used to settle a presidential election, as force was used to settle state elections in the South.

Allende was feared by the Americans because of his warm relations with Cuba and his open criticism of the Bay of Pigs Invasion.

The new force was initially to be called the North West Mounted Rifles, but this proposal was rejected as sounding too militaristic in nature, which Macdonald feared would antagonize both aboriginals and Americans ; however, the force was organized along the lines of a cavalry regiment in the British Army, and was to wear red uniforms.

The citizens erroneously believed that the raiding was committed by Native Americans from the reservations, and they feared that Ross's friendship with those on the reservations would make him ineffective.

Hostile confrontations with Native Americans, although often feared by the emigrants, were comparatively rare.

According to a conspiracy theory, they were responsible for the French Revolution and Americans feared its excesses.

I have often searched for a graphic way of impressing our superiority on those Americans who have doubts, and I think Mr. Jameson Campaigne has done it well in his new book American Might And Soviet Myth.

In a secret detailed letter to the Soviet leadership of July 21, 1967, Sakharov explains the need to " take the Americans at their word " and accept their proposal " for a bilateral rejection by the USA and the Soviet Union of the development of antiballistic missile defense ", because otherwise an arms race in this new technology would increase the likelihood of nuclear war.

A surprise attack from the Americans would destroy much of the Soviet ICBM fleet, allowing SDI to defeat a “ ragged ” Soviet retaliatory response.

Chiang did not want to be suboordinate to either the United States or the Soviet Union, but jockeyed for room between the two and wanted to get the most out of the Soviet Union and the Americans without taking sides.

He first told the Americans that they would be welcome in talks between the Soviet Union and China, then secretly told the Soviets that the Americans were unimportant and that their opinions would not be considered.

Changes in educational establishments came about as Americans and Europeans felt they had fallen behind the Soviet Union technologically after the success of Sputnik in October, 1957.

Even though it was impossible for the U. S. to gather evidence and information about Guatemala ’ s relations to the Soviet Union, Americans wanted to believe that Communism existed in Guatemala.

Initiatives, which helped more than 1000 Americans visit the Soviet Union and more than 100 then-Soviet citizens visit the U. S.

In addition, the British and Americans did not want to deal with anti-Nazis because they were fearful that the Soviet Union would believe they were attempting to make deals behind the Soviets ' back.

Soviet physicists later noted that they could see as well as the Americans eventually did that the early designs by Fuchs and Edward Teller were useless.

The Soviets believed that the Americans, with their limited nuclear arsenal, were unlikely to engage in any new world wars, while the Americans were not confident they could prevent a Soviet takeover of Europe, despite their atomic advantage.

During the period of McCarthyism ( 1950 – 1954 ), Humphrey was accused of being " soft on Communism ", despite having been one of the founders of the anti-communist liberal organization Americans for Democratic Action, having been a staunch supporter of the Truman Administration's efforts to combat the growth of the Soviet Union, and having fought Communist political activities in Minnesota and elsewhere.

As Soviet ships and submarines head towards the area in an attempt to salvage the sub, and with a hurricane moving in, the Americans decide that the quickest way to mount a rescue is for a SEAL team to be inserted onto a privately owned experimental underwater oil platform, the Deep Core, which they will then use as their base of operations.

The term Pax Americana was explicitly used by John F. Kennedy in the 1960s, who advocated against the idea, arguing that the Soviet bloc was composed of human beings with the same individual goals as Americans and that such a peace based on " American weapons of war " was undesirable:

Kvitsinsky would later write that, despite his own efforts, the Soviet side was not interested in compromise, instead calculating that peace movements in the West would force the Americans to capitulate.

" Until 1943, few Americans objected to Soviet aid.

The latter was more nationalist and sought German reunification, even at the expense of concessions to Soviet, depicting Adenauer as an instrument of both the Americans and the Vatican.

The USSR wanted to name element 104 after Igor Kurchatov, father of the Soviet atomic bomb, which was another reason the name was objectionable to the Americans.

Since the Americans had a much larger air force than the Soviet Union, and the United States maintained advance air bases near Soviet territory, in 1947 Stalin ordered the development of intercontinental ballistic missiles ( ICBMs ) in order to counter the perceived American threat.