{"id":5669,"date":"2022-01-21T17:02:38","date_gmt":"2022-01-21T17:02:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-118pinsker\/?page_id=5669"},"modified":"2025-04-24T10:04:40","modified_gmt":"2025-04-24T14:04:40","slug":"end-of-cold-war","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-118pinsker\/course-syllabus\/end-of-cold-war\/","title":{"rendered":"End of Cold War"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote>\n<h3>Was the end of the Cold War a bad thing?<\/h3>\n<\/blockquote>\n<h3>Brands, Chapter 11:\u00a0 History Without End, 1987-91<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-118pinsker\/2016\/05\/06\/ryan-cohane-less-and-less-human-thinking-technologys-role-in-the-1987-stock-market-crash\/\">St. Alan and the Dragon<\/a> (pp. 265-67)<\/li>\n<li>Just Say &#8230; Maybe? (pp. 267-70)<\/li>\n<li>Their Way (pp. 270-73)<\/li>\n<li>Soft Landing (pp. 274-77)<\/li>\n<li>Who&#8217;s Next? (pp. 277-81)<\/li>\n<li>Bush vs. Saddam (1) (pp. 281-85)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2016\/01\/19\/middleeast\/operation-desert-storm-25-years-later\/index.html\">The World in Real Time<\/a> (pp. 286-90)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<h3><strong>1984 \/\/ Reagan Re-election<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>In the 1984 presidential election, Ronald Reagan won 49 out of 50 states. This commercial, known popularly as the \u201cMorning Again in America\u201d ad helps illustrate the broad appeal of the reelection campaign \u2013and the sophisticated selling techniques of modern presidential politicking.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.livingroomcandidate.org\/commercials\/1984\/prouder-stronger-better\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-5166\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-118pinsker\/files\/2021\/04\/Screen-Shot-2021-04-27-at-8.49.09-AM-300x252.png\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-118pinsker\/files\/2021\/04\/Screen-Shot-2021-04-27-at-8.49.09-AM-300x252.png 300w, https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-118pinsker\/files\/2021\/04\/Screen-Shot-2021-04-27-at-8.49.09-AM-1024x859.png 1024w, https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-118pinsker\/files\/2021\/04\/Screen-Shot-2021-04-27-at-8.49.09-AM-768x645.png 768w, https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-118pinsker\/files\/2021\/04\/Screen-Shot-2021-04-27-at-8.49.09-AM-357x300.png 357w, https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-118pinsker\/files\/2021\/04\/Screen-Shot-2021-04-27-at-8.49.09-AM.png 1244w\" alt=\"Reagan ad\" width=\"300\" height=\"252\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Fall of the Wall<\/h3>\n<p><strong>Reagan in Berlin (1987)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Ts3KzfIYVmQ\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-468\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-coldwar\/files\/2024\/04\/Screen-Shot-2024-04-18-at-8.57.56-AM.png\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1910px) 100vw, 1910px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-coldwar\/files\/2024\/04\/Screen-Shot-2024-04-18-at-8.57.56-AM.png 1910w, https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-coldwar\/files\/2024\/04\/Screen-Shot-2024-04-18-at-8.57.56-AM-300x168.png 300w, https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-coldwar\/files\/2024\/04\/Screen-Shot-2024-04-18-at-8.57.56-AM-1024x575.png 1024w, https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-coldwar\/files\/2024\/04\/Screen-Shot-2024-04-18-at-8.57.56-AM-768x431.png 768w, https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-coldwar\/files\/2024\/04\/Screen-Shot-2024-04-18-at-8.57.56-AM-1536x862.png 1536w, https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-coldwar\/files\/2024\/04\/Screen-Shot-2024-04-18-at-8.57.56-AM-900x505.png 900w, https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-coldwar\/files\/2024\/04\/Screen-Shot-2024-04-18-at-8.57.56-AM-1280x718.png 1280w\" alt=\"\" width=\"1910\" height=\"1072\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-118pinsker\/files\/2022\/01\/Screen-Shot-2022-01-21-at-12.25.29-PM.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-5694\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-118pinsker\/files\/2022\/01\/Screen-Shot-2022-01-21-at-12.25.29-PM-1024x713.png\" alt=\"Berlin Wall\" width=\"940\" height=\"655\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-118pinsker\/files\/2022\/01\/Screen-Shot-2022-01-21-at-12.25.29-PM-1024x713.png 1024w, https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-118pinsker\/files\/2022\/01\/Screen-Shot-2022-01-21-at-12.25.29-PM-300x209.png 300w, https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-118pinsker\/files\/2022\/01\/Screen-Shot-2022-01-21-at-12.25.29-PM-768x535.png 768w, https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-118pinsker\/files\/2022\/01\/Screen-Shot-2022-01-21-at-12.25.29-PM-431x300.png 431w, https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-118pinsker\/files\/2022\/01\/Screen-Shot-2022-01-21-at-12.25.29-PM.png 1514w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 940px) 100vw, 940px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3><strong>Featured Document:\u00a0 End of Gulf War (1991)<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/millercenter.org\/the-presidency\/presidential-speeches\/march-6-1991-address-joint-session-congress-end-gulf-war\">George H.W. Bush, March 6, 1991: Address Before a Joint Session of Congress on the End of the Gulf War<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is a victory for every country in the coalition, for the United Nations. A victory for unprecedented international cooperation and diplomacy, so well led by our Secretary of State, James Baker. It is a victory for the rule of law and for what is right. Desert Storm\u2019s success belongs to the team that so ably leads our Armed Forces: our Secretary of Defense and our Chairman of the Joint Chiefs, Dick Cheney and Colin Powell. And while you\u2019re standing\u2014[laughter]\u2014this military victory also belongs to the one the British call the \u201cMan of the Match\u201d\u2014the tower of calm at the eye of Desert Storm\u2014General Norman Schwarzkopf\u2026.We went halfway around the world to do what is moral and just and right. We fought hard and, with others, we won the war. We lifted the yoke of aggression and tyranny from a small country that many Americans had never even heard of, and we ask nothing in return. We\u2019re coming home now\u2014proud, confident, heads high. There is much that we must do, at home and abroad. And we will do it. We are Americans.\u201d<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h2>Francis Fukuyama in 2020<\/h2>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/YM6p-15fjBg?si=WDe3NfoTSijZM2tL\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-origwidth=\"560\" data-origheight=\"315\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Fukuyama teaches international policy at Stanford University.\u00a0 He graduated from Cornell and received his Ph.D. from Harvard. He worked at the RAND Corporation and helped lead the Policy Planning Staff of the US State Department during the Reagan-Bush administrations. He has previously taught at George Mason University and at the Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS), Johns Hopkins University.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Was the end of the Cold War a bad thing? Brands, Chapter 11:\u00a0 History Without End, 1987-91 St. Alan and the Dragon (pp. 265-67) Just Say &#8230; Maybe? (pp. 267-70) Their Way (pp. 270-73) Soft Landing (pp. 274-77) Who&#8217;s Next? (pp. 277-81) Bush vs. Saddam (1) (pp. 281-85) The World in Real Time (pp. 286-90) [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":373,"featured_media":0,"parent":13,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"class_list":["post-5669","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-118pinsker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5669","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-118pinsker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-118pinsker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-118pinsker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/373"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-118pinsker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5669"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-118pinsker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5669\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-118pinsker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/13"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-118pinsker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5669"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}