Category: Week 2: Cold War Origins
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Why does Christian Appy argue that Vietnam was working-class?
I think that Christian Appy is arguing about how the working class during the Vietnam War was not getting the…
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Communists, Homosexuals, and Sexual Gossip: The Smearing of Sen. Joseph McCarthy
Under the banner of national security and patriotism, the “lavender scare” was an extension of the “red scare” as both…
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The National Security State: Secrecy, Mistrust, and the Lasting Impact of Cold War Policies
Following World War II, the US adopted a new, blatantly undemocratic form of government: the national security state. The article…
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Secrecy in the Name of Security
The national security state is a governmental framework that strongly prioritizes national defense and security. During the Cold War and…
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Is National Security about the people or the government?
The national security state is when secret bureaucracies within a government go after both real and perceived threats on the…
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Sheep or Man: they wish it was impossible to say which was which
The “national security state” is the government body that tasked itself with protecting the American people from threats to their…
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Week 1 Blog Post
The national security state and a culture of secrecy are demonstrated in the Dean article “Cultures of Secrecy.” During the…
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The Cold War
The cold war I think that national security in rural states like Nevada and Utah during the Cold War was…
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“Never Seen Anything Like It Before”: Sheep-Farmer’s and the National Security State
After the end of World War II, the United States entered into a new, definitively undemocratic model of government: the…
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