One of the inescapable realities of the Cold War is that it has thrust upon the West a wholly new and historically unique set of moral dilemmas.

Sessions devoted to `` Ethics and Foreign Policy Trends '', `` Moral Principle and Political Judgment '', `` Christian Ethics in the Cold War '' and related subjects proved to be much livelier under this procedure than if Catholics were merely talking to themselves.

It is important, however, that the Peace Corps be advanced not as an arm of the Cold War but as a contribution to the world community.

Here is the best short explanation of the origins of the Cold War that has been written.

Failing to heed the lesson so clearly contained in the satellite treaties, President Truman re-declared the Cold War on March 12, 1947, in the Truman Doctrine, exactly one week after the Herald Tribune editorial was written, and a year after the Cold War had been announced by Churchill at Fulton, Missouri, in Truman's presence.

While the Cold War raged it was easy to blame it all on Yalta.

He intimated that they weren't doing the country much good in the Cold War.

At the same time, David H. Price's work on American anthropology during the Cold War provides detailed accounts of the pursuit and dismissal of several anthropologists from their jobs for communist sympathies.

Angola-Zimbabwe relations have remained cordial since the birth of both states, Angola in 1975 and Zimbabwe in 1979, during the Cold War.

The treaty was the first arms control agreement established during the Cold War.

* 1947 – Bernard Baruch coins the term " Cold War " to describe the relationship between the United States and the Soviet Union.

* 1953 – Cold War: The CIA and MI6 help to overthrow the government of Mohammad Mosaddegh in Iran and reinstate the Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi.

* 1960 – Cold War: in Moscow, Russia, Soviet Union, downed American U-2 pilot Francis Gary Powers is sentenced to ten years imprisonment by the Soviet Union for espionage.

* 1945 – Ten days after World War II ends with Japan announcing its surrender, armed supporters of the Communist Party of China kill Baptist missionary John Birch, regarded by some of the American right as the first victim of the Cold War.

* 1958 – During the Cold War, American Van Cliburn wins the inaugural International Tchaikovsky Competition in Moscow.

During the Cold War, the ACLU headquarters was dominated by anti-communists, but many local affiliates defended members of the Communist Party.

As a result of this, the main battle tank ( MBT ) conceived in the Cold War era can survive multiple RPG strikes with minimal effect on the crew or the operation of the vehicle.

Although the role of the ground attack aircraft significantly diminished after the Korean War, it re-emerged during the Vietnam War, and in the recognition of this, the US Air Force authorised the design and production of what was later to become the A-10 dedicated anti-armour and ground-attack aircraft of the Cold War.

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Europe meanwhile decided to reap the benefits of its post – Cold War peace dividend and instead supported the development of international law, for example through the International Criminal Court.

* Visit the Cold War International History Project ( CWIHP ) for the full text of Alexander Vassiliev's Notebooks containing more information on Fuchs ' involvement in espionage

As the UN grounds for the effective execution of international law ( such as International Court of Justice ) and UN represents international character for a state after World War II ( such as United Nations General Assembly and United Nations Security Council ), consequently, a majority of the aligned countries during Cold War in the Western world camp decided to terminate official diplomatic relations to ROC and recognize People's Republic of China instead.

* The Woodrow Wilson Center Cold War International History Project's Warsaw Pact Document Collection

As the United States grew more concerned over the culmination of the Cold War, it made a concession in 1954 at the behest of its Department of State by backing the conception of the International Finance Corporation ( IFC ).

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* For evidence on Soviet espionage in the United States during the Cold War, see the full text of Alexander Vassiliev's Notebooks from the Cold War International History Project ( CWIHP )

Mobutu was able to successfully capitalize on Cold War tensions and gain significant support from Western countries like the United States and international organizations such as the International Monetary Fund.

One of the large financial institutions that he was able to use to launder money was the Bank of Credit and Commerce International ( BCCI ) which was shut down at the end of the Cold War by the FBI.

Furthermore, the International History department at LSE, developed as primarily focused on the history of IR in the early modern, colonial and Cold War periods.

International mediumwave broadcasting in Europe has decreased markedly with the end of the Cold War and the increased availability of satellite and Internet TV and radio, although the cross-border reception of neighbouring countries ' broadcasts by expatriates and other interested listeners still takes place.

World politics affected the lead-up to the Games with tension between the United States and Soviet Union intensifying, and the International Olympic Committee ( IOC ) was forced to debate the participation of China, Taiwan, North Korea and East Germany because of the Cold War.

Also in 2007, Kravitz released a version of " Cold Turkey " by John Lennon on the charity CD Instant Karma: The Amnesty International Campaign to Save Darfur.

* The Cold War International History Project ( CWIHP ) for Alexander Vassiliev's Notebooks

Eventually, with the collapse of the Cold War, the World Bank and International Monetary Fund arrived, imposing a series of Structural Adjustment Programs from 1987.

International convention since the end of the Cold War has come to distinguish two distinct circumstances where such privileges are sought by such a successor state, in only the first of which may such successor states assume the name or privileged international position of their predecessor.

* The Cold War International History Project ( CWIHP ) for new evidence on Soviet espionage in the United States from GRU / KGB archival sources

Since the end of the Cold War, the U. S. has sought to revitalize Cold War institutional structures, especially NATO, as well as multilateral institutions such as the International Monetary Fund and World Bank through which it promotes economic reforms around the globe.

* Cold War International History Project Document Collection on the 1953 East German Uprising

*" On Moral Equivalency and Cold War History " Ethics & International Affairs, Volume 10 ( 1996 )

* 1956 Hungarian Revolution Collection of the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, Cold War International History Project ( Virtual Archive 2. 0 ), containing documents and other source materials relating to the 1956 Revolution.

The Cold War: A New History ( 2005 )

Long Peace: Inquiries into the History of the Cold War ( 1987 )

* Holger Nehring, ' National Internationalists: British and West German Protests against Nuclear Weapons, the Politics of Transnational Communications and the Social History of the Cold War, 1957 – 1964 ', Contemporary European History, 14, No. 4 ( 2006 )

* Holger Nehring, ' The British and West German Protests against Nuclear Weapons and the Cultures of the Cold War, 1957 – 64 ', Contemporary British History, 19, No. 2 ( 2005 )

* Air Force History Part Three: Countering the Communist Threat During the Cold War

" The Cold War and the Election of 1948 ", The Journal of American History, Vol.

* Noam Chomsky et al., The Cold War and the University: Toward an Intellectual History of the Postwar Years, New Press 1997

* Heuser, Beatrice, " Alliances Bedevilled by History: Franks, Germanics and Anglo-Saxons in the Cold War ", in Luciano Tosi ( ed ): Europe, its Borders and the Others ( Naples: Edizione Scientifiche Italiane, 2000 ), pp. 313-349.

Canada's New Cold War History

* Leffler, Melvyn P. " Strategy, Diplomacy, and the Cold War: the United States, Turkey, and NATO, 1945 – 1952 " Journal of American History 1985 71 ( 4 ): 807 – 825.

* The Cold War & the University: Toward an Intellectual History of the Postwar Years ( Noam Chomsky ( Editor ) Authors: Ira Katznelson, R. C. Lewontin, David Montgomery, Laura Nader, Richard Ohmann, Ray Siever, Immanuel Wallerstein, Howard Zinn ( 1997 ) ISBN 1-56584-005-4.

" Strategic imperatives, Democratic rhetoric: The United States and Turkey, 1945 – 52 .," Cold War History, Aug 2009, Vol.

* Leffler, Melvyn P. " Strategy, Diplomacy, and the Cold War: the United States, Turkey, and NATO, 1945 – 1952 " Journal of American History 1985 71 ( 4 ): 807 – 825.

* A. H. Sturtevant, A History of Genetics, ( Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press, 2001 ).

According to the Cold War scholar John Lewis Gaddis in his book " The Cold War: A New History " ( 2005 ), " Leonid Brezhnev had looked forward, Anatoly Dobrynin recalls, to the ' publicity he would gain ... when the Soviet public learned of the final settlement of the postwar boundaries for which they had sacrificed so much '... ' the Helsinki Accords gradually became a manifesto of the dissident and liberal movement '... What this meant was that the people who lived under these systems — at least the more courageous — could claim official permission to say what they thought.