USA & USSR
the rise of the nationalists the communist victory in china sphere of influence action and reaction cycle ensuring national security buffer one world vision capitalism socialism ethnic unrest and separatist movements policy making for the korean war ideological offensive and military build-up SDI new political thinking truman doctrine marshall plan greece and turkey bizonia trizonia ostmark berlin blockade air raid naval blockade fall of communism Jupiter missiles negotiation reputation dented relations with china soured reagan doctrine people power explanation orthodox view revisionist post-revisionist post-1991 passive role ideology western triumphalist version right-wing version moderate version soviet initiative explanation soviet ideology losing credibility glastnost perestroika rising infant mortality rates shortage of labour poor equipment facilities accumulation of debt vociferous economic woes decline of CPSU nuclear arms race cuban revolution cuba missile crisis cuban sugar washington hegemony fall of communism in eastern europe isolation free trade COLD WAR COLD WAR COLD WAR
MY HEAD’S A GIANT COLD WAR DICTIONARY
BRACE FACE
NO MORE BRACE FACE!!!…
…In a month.
SO EXCITED! After all the pain, soreness, swelling, yanking, pulling and of course, pain again, that my teeth and lips have gone through… The end is finally here. I will recount the wonderful memories I’ve had with my braces:
I will never forget my first tooth-divider-thingum (a small white disc inserted between the molars to create space for the metal rings) It never failed to cause me distress and make me whack the walls with my fists and scream out of frustration. Boy those were an excruciating 3 days. Those were the times…
I will never forget the first colour I chose for my rubber bands – Blue! But people seemed to shirk away with a look of fear awe whenever I flashed my teeth, so I stuck with grey for the rest of the time. Also one time I chose green, which unintentionally made me become green from head to toe (green uniform, shoes, Romanis etc) so I did away with colours
I will never forget the first lip swelling I got from the braces. Ah yes.
Lip swelling, the bane of my existence from 2006 to 2008.
LOVING LIFE MAN. LOVING LIFE.