Tag Archives: Cold War

The American Conservative: Tom Switzer: ‘Dean of the Realists’

Source:The American Conservative– “Owen Harries/ photo courtesy of the Lowery Institute.” From TAC. Source:The New Democrat “When the first issue of The National Interest was published in 1985, its editor, Owen Harries, proclaimed an affinity between realpolitik and conservatism. By … Continue reading

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Active News: ABC World News Tonight, July 10, 1978: The Soviet Union Making Trouble

Source: Active News: ABC World News Tonight, July 10, 1978: The Soviet Union Making Trouble The thing that people need to know about Marxist states which is exactly what the Soviet Union of Russia was for over seventy-years before the … Continue reading

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C-SPAN: President John F. Kennedy’s American University Peace Speech

C-SPAN: President John F. Kennedy’s American University Peace Speech I believe the whole point of President Kennedy’s speech here is that as different as the American and Russian form of government’s and system’s during the Cold War were, that the … Continue reading

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The National Journal: Opinion- Peter Beinart- The Cost of Disowning Jimmy Carter

This piece was originally posted at The New Democrat Jimmy Carter, is one of those president’s who looks a lot better 30 years later than he did, really at anytime he was in office. By late 1977, President Carter’s approval … Continue reading

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Heritage Foundation: Diana West: ‘American Betrayal: The Secret Assault on Our Nation’s Character’

“In “American Betrayal”, Diana West argues that — current policies today notwithstanding — America began to abandon its core ideals and march toward Socialism nearly 75 years ago. Starting in the late 1930s, at the time of FDR, the Soviets … Continue reading

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Liberty in Our Time: Blacklisted From History- Interview With Stanton Evans

Source:Liberty In Our Time I’m not an expert on Stanton Evans, but what I’ve seen from him is that he basically sees Senator Joe McCarthy as the good guy during this period. The Army-McCarthy hearings of 1953-54, chaired by Senator … Continue reading

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Bob Parker: ABC News 45-85- Communism on The March

“”45/85 Part 3 an ABC News television documentary. It aired on September 18, 1985. The three-hour program combined archive film and television footage with new interviews to document post-World War II history, focusing especially on the Cold War. Hosted by … Continue reading

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Bob Parker: ABC News 45-85- Start of The Cold War

What British Prime Minister Winston Churchill was talking about when he called for the need for a North Atlantic Alliance that would fight against the spread of communism in Europe, became NATO in 1949. The North Atlantic Alliance between North … Continue reading

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Full War Movies: Red Nightmare Full Movie (1962)

. There were a lot of anti-communist propaganda films during the Cold War that the U.S. Government made against the Soviet Union and their communist regime. America didn’t win the Cold War because they invaded Russia and knocked out their … Continue reading

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Crash Course: John Green- The Reagan Revolution

Source:Crash Course The Reagan Revolution was all possible because of what Barry Goldwater and Richard Nixon were able to build in the 1960s and 70s. Moving right-wing Democrats from the Midwest and South over to the Republican Party. It was … Continue reading

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