Durante la Guerra Fría, América se arriesgó a una guerra nuclear con la Unión Soviética; y aunque la Guerra Fría terminó hace mucho tiempo, el apoyo los Estados Unidos estuvo varias veces a punto de entrar en guerra nuclear con la Unión Soviética, lo que habría tenido consecuencias terribles. Sin embargo, el La Rusia actual, piensen lo que piensen de ella, no es comunista, no domina media Europa, no tiene perspectivas de hacerlo y no está exportando la revolución a todo el
manera: Los muchos americanos que se opusieron a la participación americana en Europa y Asia a finales de la década de 1930 y principios de la de 1940 ciertamente Roosevelt y otros «liberales» no querían vivir con el fascismo dominante en Europa y Asia, sino que querían ayudar a asegurar un orden mundial liberal. En su discurso sobre el Estado de la Unión de enero de 1939 —meses antes de la invasión alemana de Polonia— Roosevelt
is simply to define them away. He (admirably) condemns the colonialism of the European absolutist states, but defends British imperialism on the basis that it was end that the English imperialists sought to attain in the creation of a customs union embracing the dominions and the mother country was the same as that which the
argued in this way: Those many Americans who opposed American involvement in Europe and Asia in the late 1930s and early 1940s certainly did not believe the war next to fall, leaving the United States without a single meaningful ally in the European theater. This was hardly a desirable situation; why, then, did the America Asia, but wanted instead to help secure a liberal world order. In his State of the Union address in January 1939—months before Germany’s invasion of Poland—Roosevelt
Scientific Imagination. Vital for the relation of theology to secular thought in European history. Funkenstein shows how many political concepts follow a similar the onset of the Great Depression. Jones, Eric. The European Miracle . Why did Europe develop economically, in a way unlike any other region before the eighteenth as psychologically abnormal. McDonald, Forrest. States’ Rights and the Union. McDonald shows that the United States was established as an association of
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