Twentieth century world politics saw the United States combine ideological abstractions with balance of power realities. President Woodrow Wilson sought to transform the geopolitical clash of the ...

Ira Chernus has created one of the first detailed studies of the ideology and rhetoric of a U.S. leader in the formative years of the Cold War, showing how words and ideas fostered a conservative ...

cold war ideology and the domestic revival [were] two sides of the same coin." With the international expansion of the American economy after the war, men's wages were higher than ever before ...

The Cold War was a battle of ideology, politics, spies and military supremacy, with a sometimes terrifying arms race and nuclear proliferation. Like WWII before it, the Cold War was truly global ...

The hijacking crisis of September 1970 occurred against the backdrop of a decades-long Cold War between the planet's two strongest nations. Although the United States and Soviet Union had begun ...

At the height of the Cold War, on 1 January 1959 ... coupled with similarities of ideology, pushed Cuba into the arms of the Soviet Union. So began years of dangerous political manoeuvring ...

Twenty years after that global conflict, FDR borrowed Wilson’s ideology of democratism in support of America’s war against Nazi Germany and its allies, and Japan. During the Cold War ...