Some evidence for Cold War essays
“Detente was buried in the sands of the Ogaden”
Ethiopia and Somalia (Brzizinski)
“Just a piece of paper”
Gromyko 1975 (1957-1985)
“We will bury you”
Khrushchev 1959
“Berlin is the testacles of the West”
Khrushchev 1958
“He may be a son of a bitch but he was our son of a bitch”
about Pinochet (1973)
“Wipe Israel off the map”
Nasser 1967
“A time bomb”
Ford about Helsinki
“Ich bin ein Berliner”
JFK 1963
“We pretend to work, you pretend to pay us”
1970s USSR
What did Reagan call “barbaric”?
The KAL 007 incident 1983
“See you again next year”
Reagan, Feb 1984
“How am I supposed to get anywhere when the Russians keep dying on me?”
Reagan 1985
“We can’t go on living like this”
Gorbachev 1985
“Bathe with the people”
Gorbachev
“Socialism with a human face”
Dubcek, 1968
“Be not afraid”
Pope John Paul II - 1979
“The old system tumbled down before the new system could begin functioning”
Gorbachev 25th Dec 1991
“Europe is our common home”
Gorbachev
“Caveman mentality”, “dinosaur”
Gorbachev, 1986
Amount of money from Truman Doctrine to Turkey and Greece May 1947
$400 million
How much money promised to Diem 1954?
$100 million
Impacts of Hungarian Rising
4,000 deaths and 200,000 in self imposed exile
US troops in Vietnam 1965
200,000
US troops in Vietnam 1966
Nearly 400,000
US troops in Vietnam 1967
Half a million
US troops in Vietnam 1968
540,000