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1 Introduction ◄ America at war 1941-2011 ►
HISTORY ◄ THE USA & CONFLICT ► Introduction ◄ America at war ► I. The Cold War 1. What is it ? 2. The reason: 2 opposite models => 3. US foreign policy: containment The Korean War: a proxy war Nuclear confrontation, Leslie Illingworth, Daily Mail, 29 October 1962 Notions & Vocabulary Cold War, the USSR/the Soviet Union, weapons of mass destruction (WMDs), proxy/substitute war ; US versus Soviet model ; foreign policy, containment, to contain

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HISTORY ◄ THE USA & CONFLICT ► Introduction ◄ America at war ► II. “Hot”, “shooting” wars 1. Starting a war More involvement in Afghanistan, 2010 The invasion of Poland, 1 September 1939 Paris welcoming US troops, 25 August 1944 Domestic revenge Looking for WMDs in Iraq, 3 July 2003. Notions & Vocabulary wars of escalation, aggression, prevention, liberation, retaliation ; to attack, to strike, to invade

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HISTORY ◄ THE USA & CONFLICT ► Introduction ◄ America at war ► I. “Hot”, “shooting” wars 2. Waging war  More or less involvement  Different targets US spy agency 'collects phone records'. The scandal broke in early June when the Guardian newspaper reported that the US National Security Agency (NSA) was collecting the telephone records of tens of millions of Americans in a surveillance programme known as Prism to head off the threat of terrorist attacks. BBC News, 1 July 2013. Hajime MIYATAKE, Asahi Shimbun, August 1945. WW1 propaganda poster Notions & Vocabulary total, global war ; clean versus dirty war, war of annihilation ; on the frontline, the soldiers, troops, the military ; on the home front, civilians. Clean versus dirty war, Jeff, 7 February 1991

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HISTORY ◄ THE USA & CONFLICT ► Introduction ◄ America at war ► I. “Hot”, “shooting” wars 2. Waging war  Different opponents State Non-etatic group symmetric warfare dissymmetric asymmetric Soviet partisans ready to ambush German troops, WW2 Notions & Vocabulary symmetric, dissymmetric, asymmetric war/warfare ; guerrilla war, terrorism,

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