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First of all, I think that the phrase "Reagan killed the peace" sums up the reading and Reagan's term as president. To answer Helen's question, what I think it means is that Reagan reversed ...

Whenever the US has a president who makes a mistake, it always seems to be that it used too much force, invaded where it didn't need to, or made some other hasty choice for the most violent and milita ...

First of all, that was incredibly difficult to read. I don't know if it was the military vocabulary, the small type, or the author's tendency to wander, but I had a lot of trouble staying focused.

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In my opinion, Johnson's policies were far more underhand and dishonest than Kennedy's. He used covert CIA operations to achieve his political goals, in situations where I think Kennedy might have opt ...

Reading these letters made me realize that both parties were very aware of the possibility of a nuclear war, throughout the entire negotiation. I feel like the other reading made this very ambiguous, ...

Kennedy's decision to use a blockade as the solution to the Cuban Missile Crisis was definitely the right one. It was incredibly lucky that there wasn't a nuclear war, and I believe that if he had cho ...

During the cold war era the biggest change that the concept of family underwent is that a very specific role for each member of the family unit was created. The father was expected to be the breadwinn ...