HIS3N Historiography

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After WW2, the US and the USSR were "doomed to be antagonists."
E. May.
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The Warsaw Pact was a "cardboard castle."
Crump.
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"The atomic bomb threw Stalin back into neurotic solitude."
Pleshakov and Zubok.
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Stalin's postwar goals were "security for himself, his regime, his country and his ideology" in that order.
Gaddis.
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The Berlin Blockade "hardened Western attitudes."
H. Ward.
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The Berlin Wall "silenced a subsequent international crisis" that could've "escalated into nuclear war."
F. Taylor.
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The Berlin wall "symbolised Europe's division, at the heart of the Cold War."
Isaacs.
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The USSR "could not hope to compete with the West in terms of high technology."
S. J. Lee.
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"The more horrible the prospect of war, the less likely war is."
Mearsheimer.
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"The major turning point came when Khrushchev first exposed Stalin's failures and cruelty in the secret speech."
Hornsby.
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The Hungarian Uprising (1956) was an "unplanned leaderless explosion" that was the result of a "confluence of fatal errors."
Matthews.
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Soviet expansion was designed to create a "security buffer."
Morgan.
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The Marshall Plan: "the creation of strong economies in a stable Europe would underpin democracy."
Sewell.
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Deployment of missiles to Cuba designed "to spread revolution throughout Latin America."
Gaddis.
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Cuban missile crisis: "Fortunately, no black hole lured a the other end."
Gaddis.
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"Detente itself showed the impress of the missile crisis."
Crockatt.
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China's international revolutionary leadership was "largely of a rhetorical nature."
Spalding.
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A "shared Sino-American interest had to do with the war in Vietnam."
Gaddis.
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The Basic Principles "papered over cracks."
Gaddis.
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SALT I "confirmed the Soviet Union's parity [and] reduced tension."
Mason.
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Helsinki: "A legal and moral trap."
Gaddis.
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Helsinki: The West "gained nothing more than vague promises of good behaviour" from the USSR.
Mason.
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Detente "Never represented a weakening of support for national liberation movements."
Bowker and Williams.
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"Detente was never amity, only the easing of tensions."
Sewell.
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By the end of the 1970s, "the complexities and contradictions of detente had become explosive."
J. Fitzgerald.
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Brezhnev's ill health made him an "object of pity and a target for black humour."
A. Nolan.
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Ostpolitik: "did not end the Cold War" as its aim was "transformation by moving closer together."
M. Freund.
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Soviet planners were "unable to keep up with the speed with which one innovation superseded another."
Goldman.
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Gorbachev's reforms "prolonged the pain" of economic collapse.
Knight.
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SDI: "a major distraction that undermined nuclear disarmament."
Podvig.
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SDI "may have been the most effective" of the efforts to "promote internal reform" in the USSR.
Gaddis.
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Thatcher thought the "revitalisation of the special relationship" would "strengthen British global power" and avoid the "entaglements of Europe."
Gardner.
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The Soviet Gas Pipeline agreement was a "face saving retreat from the [US] sanctions policy."
Cromwell.
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Glasnost: Liberalisation was "clearly not democratisation."
Bova.
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The Cold War ended due to "Soviet economic failure."
S. Ball.
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Soviet opposition to SDI: "the main stumbling block" to arms control.
Mason.
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Geneva 1985: "a watershed" considered a "success by both sides."
McCauley.
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"The Cold War came to an end because it was impossible for two powers to divide and rule the world."
McCauley.
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1989 Revolutions: "ideology, mistrust, historical analogies... were replaced by cooperation between Western and Soviet leaders."
Sewell.
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The West "misunderstood the nature and origins" of the crisis in Yugoslavia.
Woodward.
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Saddam was a "new bogeyman" in the international arena.
Finlan.
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UN behaved in a "timid and bumbling manner" re the Gulf War.
Springborg.
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In 2001, "more Americans died of peptic ulcers than terrorism."
Biddle and Feaver.
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Iraq was a "war of choice" not a "war of necessity."
Haass.
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UN responses in the Cold War "lacked clear objectives."
O'Neill and Rees.
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Bush's "masterful orchestration" of the Gulf War "showed his political skill."
Kuroda.
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"Terror was a tactic, not an enemy."
Bacevich.
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NATO enlargement was "exclusively political."
Dunay.
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EU expansion made it "more difficult to harmonise policies."
Mason.
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EU enlargement: "ushered in a wider reconfiguration of the European order."
D. Stone.
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NATO enlargement: the West "betrayed the idea of partnership with Moscow."
J. Simon.
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9/11: the US sought to "keep the UN at arms length."
O'Neill and Rees.
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Rwanda: UN failed to "make a distinction between civil war and genocide."
Khan.
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UN failure in the Gulf War was "tragic and far reaching."
Falk.
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The war in Korea "transformed West Germany's prospects" because the US feared the USSR would use force to reunify Germany.
William Glenn Gray
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"The power vacuum created in Europe by the... surrender of the German reich can be viewed as the most important cause of Soviet-American antagonism after 1945."
D. Junker.
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"The legacy of the third reich was the raison d'etre for inclusion of Germany within European and transatlantic organisations."
D. Junker.
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USSR "more intent upon unifying Germany on favourable terms" than allowing separate East German presence in international affairs.
William Glenn Gray.
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