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A compact and graphic account of the long-running global drama: The Cold War.

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A Failed Peace • The Iron Curtain • The Truman Doctrine, Marshall Plan, NATO • The Berlin Airlift • China and De-Colonization • McCarthyism • Korea: The Cold War Becomes a Military Struggle • Why The War Never Became Hot: The Bomb • Explosions in Europe: Poland & the GDR Uprising • Explosions in Europe: The Hungarian Uprising • Secret Services: East • Secret Services: West • Missiles, Sputnik, and the H-Bomb • Cuba: Bay of Pigs • The Berlin Wall • Cuban Missile Crisis • Vietnam • The Prague Spring • Detente: The Peak of Soviet Power • Afghanistan • Dissidents • Poland • President Reagan's Offensive • Living with the Bomb • Gorbachev: A Man to Do Business With • The Wall Comes Down • Revolutions in Eastern Europe • Fall of the Soviet Union.

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      Publisher: Headline Publishing Group
      Publication Date: 08/08/2019
      ISBN13: 9780233005911, 978-0233005911
      ISBN10: 0233005919
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      History General and world history Military History

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      A compact and graphic account of the long-running global drama: The Cold War.

      Table of Contents

      A Failed Peace • The Iron Curtain • The Truman Doctrine, Marshall Plan, NATO • The Berlin Airlift • China and De-Colonization • McCarthyism • Korea: The Cold War Becomes a Military Struggle • Why The War Never Became Hot: The Bomb • Explosions in Europe: Poland & the GDR Uprising • Explosions in Europe: The Hungarian Uprising • Secret Services: East • Secret Services: West • Missiles, Sputnik, and the H-Bomb • Cuba: Bay of Pigs • The Berlin Wall • Cuban Missile Crisis • Vietnam • The Prague Spring • Detente: The Peak of Soviet Power • Afghanistan • Dissidents • Poland • President Reagan's Offensive • Living with the Bomb • Gorbachev: A Man to Do Business With • The Wall Comes Down • Revolutions in Eastern Europe • Fall of the Soviet Union.

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