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Hungary had the most advanced economy in Eastern Europe, and was beginning to experiment with political liberalization. Younger
The Cold War
John Lewis Gaddis
He persuaded the Americans to fund the construction, on the Nile, of the Aswan High Dam, a project crucial to Egyptian economic development. He also decided, though, to buy arms from Czechoslovakia. These two decisions set off the first great
The Cold War
John Lewis Gaddis
By the mid-1950s these lethal devices, together with the means of delivering them almost instantly anywhere, had placed all states at risk. As a consequence, one of the principal reasons for engaging in war in the past—the protection of one’s own territory—no longer made sense. At the same time competition for territory, another traditional cause of war, was becoming less profitable than it once had been. What good did it do, in an age of total vulnerability, to acquire
The Cold War
John Lewis Gaddis
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