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IEB History. Details moments within the Cold War in which concepts like containment and brinkmanship are prominent.

IEB History. Details the reasons behind the USA's failure to defeat Vietnamese forces, including the American bombing campaign, the use of napalm, war crimes like the My Lai Massacre, the W.H.A.M initiative, the anti-war sentiment that spread among American troops. Acknowledges Vietnamese disillusionment with capitalism following the brutality of American troops and tactics.

IEB History. Details the events that occurred within the Vietnam War, or otherwise known as the American War, within the context of the Cold War. Covers the escalation of USA military involvement in the war under different presidents, from Truman to Nixon. Studies the war as a proxy war between the USSR and the USA as well as a civil war that occurred within Vietnam itself. Explores the role of the USA, USSR and the Vietnamese.

IEB History. Details the successive clashes between the USSR and the USA that comprise the Cuban Missile Crisis. In the context of the Cold War, this note studies this historical event through the lens of specific Cold War concepts (i.e. brinkmanship and sphere of influence) as both the USA and the USSR strived to push their own capitalist and communist agendas respectively.

IEB History. Details the Berlin Blockade of 1948-1949, the Berlin Uprising of 1953, the Spy Plane Incident of 1960 and the construction of the Berlin Wall i.e. the four historical events that constitute the Berlin Crises. This note covers these four moments in time within the context of the Cold War.

IEB History. Covers the early period of the Cold War i.e. the tension between capitalist and communist powers that came to fruition in the wake of World War II. With reference to certain leaders and their policies as well as detail of particular historical events and historical perspectives, this note provides in-depth understanding of the Cold War and its genesis.