Abstract The paper examines Brian S. Gunderson's article "Strategic Air Command's B-29's During the Berlin Airlift", which emphasizes the previously unacknowledged, but crucial role played by B-29s during the famous Berlin Blockade airlift. The paper asserts that although this is a valuable document in its detail and meticulous, step-by-step chronological unfolding of the events leading up to and after the airlift, Gunderson lacks engagement because of his failure to really make an argument about the significance of the airlift. The paper notes many aspects the author could have addressed that would have improved this work.
From the Paper "Author and B-29 navigator from the 1948 28th Bomb Wing Brigadier General Brian S. Gunderson's article "Strategic Air Command's b-29's During the Berlin Airlift" appears to be a fairly straightforward account of the Berlin Blockade with an emphasis on the previously unacknowledged, but crucial role played by B-29s during the famous airlift. Gunderson was personally involved in the airlift, although his article takes a cooler, more dispassionate tone than other attempts to provide the reader with a gripping, involved, and 'grounds-eye' narrative of the events that transpired. His thesis, vaguely defined, seems to underline the significance of the airlift and the essential fellowship and hospitality of the British that enabled the airlift to be so successful. However, although a valuable document in its detail and meticulous, step-by-step chronological unfolding of the events leading up to and after the airlift, he lacks engagement with a central, driving thesis because of his failure to really make an argument about the significance of the airlift."
Abstract The paper examines the Korean War, the Berlin Airlift and the policy of containment as the events that signified President Harry Truman's foreign policy. The paper discusses Truman's effectiveness as president, his role as a policy maker and his effects on the Cold War.
From the Paper "The death of President Franklin D. Roosevelt marked the end of an era and the change that would take place as a new president, Harry Truman came to power. Truman would take Roosevelt's policy of trust and turn it into one of suspicion. It was once commented that: "Harry Truman was certainly one of the greatest of recent American Presidents, especially with regard to foreign policy." Truman was not the greatest, as many of his actions fueled tensions of the Cold War. He did however, attempt to maintain peace and make a concerted effort to "do the right thing," for his country."
Tags: Korean, war, Berlin, airlift, containment, Soviet, Union, communism
Evolution from start of alliance against Nazi Germany to Teheran Conference (1943), Yalta Conference (1945), major issues (Japan, U.N., atomic bomb), beginning of Cold War, Soviet hegemony over Eastern Europe & Berlin Airlift.
5,850 words (approx. 23.4 pages), 17 sources, 1996, $ 135.95
From the Paper "This paper will discuss the evolution of relations between the United States and the Soviet Union between the end of World War II and the beginning of the Cold War in 1948. It will trace the deterioration in these relations, starting with friction between the two countries in the alliance against Nazi Germany at the end of the Second World War, through the advent of American nuclear power, to the imposition of Soviet hegemony over Eastern Europe in the late 1940s. The paper will end with the Berlin Airlift, which marked the final dissolution of the Second World War Alliance.
Prelude: The Second World War.
The evolution of U.S.-Soviet relations up to the Cold War cannot be understood without a brief background on the effect of the ..."
Abstract This paper examines the alternatives available to President Truman and his advisers in 1948 regarding responses to the blockade of Berlin by the USSR. The author assesses the value of each alternative and explores the potential Soviet responses to each of them, then concludes that an airlift is the best alternative.
Abstract This paper put forward the argument that the Cold War was the direct result of Soviet expansionist policies, coupled with Joseph Stalin's paranoia, in the years following World War II. It looks at how the Soviet Union, in effect, annexed Eastern Europe, which became a conglomeration of Soviet vassal states with puppet governments controlled by Stalin through various purges.
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From the Paper "World War II also taught Stalin and the Soviet Union to mistrust the West. Although the last two years of the war saw a remarkable level of cooperation between the Soviet Union and the Allies, the two year delay by the United States and Great Britain in launching the second front was interpreted negatively by many Soviets. As the Soviet Union waged a bloody and devastating campaign against the Axis powers on its own territory, the West's reluctance to take some of the pressure off Russia by attacking Germany fostered deep seated Soviet suspicions that the West wanted to see Germany and Russia cripple each other."
Abstract This paper first describes the life of Melinda Lopez, author of the play "Sonia Flew". The paper then discusses the plot of the play and the parallels between the main protagonist and the author's life. The paper discusses the main conflict of the story, which is Sonia's inability to live down her memory of being brought to America in the 1961 airlift from Cuba, nicknamed, "Operation Peter Pan." The paper takes a critical stance towards the play and pans it as unmemorable, with very little to say.
From the Paper "Sonia did well enough with her share of the American dream and was successful on the surface while harboring a painful secret. Well, who doesn't have a few bad memories they would just as soon jettison? She seems to have a good life, a loving husband and two healthy children, a career and a beautiful home. But at last we discover, oh my, she is a child of Operation Peter Pan. She has never managed to put this behind her and get on with her life."
Tags: plays, melinda lopez, cuban-american, american dream, immigrants
