The dissolution of Japan's great financial houses (zaibatsu) also was an early occupation priority, but it gave way under Cold War pressures.
Held together by Cold War pressures, artificial states like Yugoslavia (1991), Afghanistan (1992), and Somalia (1993) collapsed and fell into civil war.
Instead, they focused on a narrow period in 1948, when mounting Cold War pressures forced Neruda, already a popular artist as well as a senator for the Chilean Communist Party, to go into hiding.
Thanks to capitalism's victory in the cold war and pressure from the West for open markets, the world's pharmaceutical giants have largely had the upper hand in the struggle.
Officially, the embargo was put in place in 1960 during the Cold War to pressure the Cuban government to bring about democratic reforms.
The first few lessons explore the context surrounding the events in the film, including the Cold War, the pressure women faced at the center in Langley, Virginia, the vital role "human computers" played, segregation and the dawning of the civil rights movement.
In response to dramatic shifts resulting from the end of the Cold War, Congressional pressures for cross-service co-operation, and the emergence of new technologies, the NSG engaged in a six-year strategic planning process.
(This was at the height of the cold war, with huge pressure on both teams to win).
There will be no "peace dividend" from the end of the cold war (indeed, the pressure on military spending may continue to increase).
But in 1992, in the wake of the Cold War and under domestic pressure to end the first Palestinian intifada (1987-1993), Israelectedted Yitzhak Rabin, who adopted two mutually reinforcing security policies: pursuing detente with the Palestinians and casting Iran as a nuclear proliferator seeking to sow "murderous Islamic terror".
