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American films incorporated a wide scale of Cold War themes and issues into all genres of film, which gave American motion pictures a particular lead over Soviet film. Despite the audiences' lack of zeal for Anti-Communist/Cold War related cinema, the films produced evidently did serve as successful propaganda in both the United States and the ...
The Cold War was a period of global geopolitical rivalry between the United States (US) and the Soviet Union (USSR) and their respective allies, the capitalist Western Bloc and communist Eastern Bloc, which lasted from 1947 until the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991.
Independence Day: 22 February: 1979 Saint Vincent and the Grenadines: Independence Day: 27 October: 1979 Samoa: Independence Day: 1 June: 1962 New Zealand São Tomé and Príncipe: Independence Day: 12 July: 1975 Portugal: Effective date of the agreement with Portugal reached on 26 November 1974. [72] [73] Senegal: Independence Day: 4 April ...
The time period of around 1985–1991 marked the final period of the Cold War.It was characterized by systemic reform within the Soviet Union, the easing of geopolitical tensions between the Soviet-led bloc and the United States-led bloc, the collapse of the Soviet Union's influence in Eastern Europe, and the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991.
The Day after World War III. New York: Viking Press, 1984. ISBN 978-0-670-25880-2. Laura McEnaney. Civil Defense Begins at Home: Militarization meets everyday life in the fifties. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2000. ISBN 978-0-691-00138-8. Jennifer Leaning and Langley Keyes, editors. The Counterfeit Ark: Crisis Relocation for ...
The ideas were put forward as a Government minister was urged to “put on his thinking cap” ahead of the commemorations of the revolutionary conflict that ran from 1775-1783 and saw the ...
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Also that day U.S. President George H. W. Bush, after receiving a phone call from Boris Yeltsin [citation needed], delivers a Christmas Day speech acknowledging the end of the Cold War. [86] December 26: the Council of the Republics of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR dissolves the Soviet Union. The United States became the world's only superpower.