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Iraq received massive financial support from the Gulf States, above all from Saudi Arabia, and billions in loans from Washington – though these, since the Iraqis were now obliged to import their wheat from the US, had the effect of boosting the American economy

Blowback

Michael Lüders

Atatürk’s reforms in Turkey, he broke with tradition by introducing compulsory education and allowing girls to go to school

Blowback

Michael Lüders

For just as the Cold War had frozen the results of World War II in place, so détente sought to freeze the Cold War in place. Its purpose was not to end that conflict—the differences dividing its antagonists were still too deep for that—but rather to establish rules by which

The Cold War

John Lewis Gaddis

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