Description
Book SynopsisA compact and graphic account of the long-running global drama: The Cold War.
Table of ContentsA 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.
