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SEATO), both designed by Secretary of State Dulles to surround the Soviet Union with American-sponsored military alliances.
The Cold War
John Lewis Gaddis
In both its ends and its means, then, this revolution became a triumph of hope. It did so chiefly because Mikhail Gorbachev chose not to act, but rather to be acted upon.
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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