Cold War Magills Choice

Publisher Salem Press

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eBook

2nd Edition 1st Edition

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Salem Press

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Copyright

2010

ISBN13

9781587657344

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eBook

Grade Level

9th Grade - College Senior

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Covers important Cold War events, from 1945 through the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991.
Front Cover.
Half Title Page.
Frontispiece.
Title Page.
Copyright Page.
Contents.
Publisher’s Note.
Contributors.
Complete List of Contents.
Keyword List.
Other Frontmatter.
1: Editor’s Introduction: An Overview of the Cold War.
2: February 4-11, 1945: Yalta Conference.
3: February 11, 1945: Soviet Exiles and Prisoners of War are Forced into Repatriation.
4: April 25-June 26, 1945: United Nations Charter Convention.
5: July 17-August 2, 1945: Potsdam Conference.
6: August 6 and 9, 1945: Atomic Bombs Destroy Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
7: February 1, 1946: First U.N. Secretary-General is Selected.
8: March 5, 1946: Churchill Delivers His Iron Curtain Speech.
9: August 1, 1946: Atomic Energy Commission is Established.
10: November, 1946-July, 1954: Nationalist Vietnamese Fight French Control of Indochina.
11: November 9-December 15, 1946: United Nations Admits its First New Member States.
12: 1947-1951: Blacklisting Depletes Hollywood’s Talent Pool.
13: March 12, 1947: Truman Doctrine.
14: July 26, 1947: National Security Act.
15: October 20, 1947: HUAC Investigates Hollywood.
16: November 29, 1947-July, 1949: Arab-Israeli War Creates Refugee Crisis.
17: 1948: Morgenthau Advances Realist School of Power Politics.
18: 1948: Soviets Escalate Persecution of Jews.
19: February 10, 1948: Zhdanov Denounces “Formalism” in Music.
20: February 25, 1948: Communists Seize Power in Czechoslovakia.
21: April 3, 1948: Marshall Plan Provides Aid to Europe.
22: June 24, 1948-May 11, 1949: Berlin Blockade and Airlift.
23: October 6, 1948: Earthquake Devastates Ashgabat and Kills Up to 100,000 People.
24: December 10, 1948: United Nations Adopts the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
25: December 26, 1948: Hungary’s Communist Government Arrests Cardinal Mindszenty.
26: 1949-1961: East Germans Flee to West to Escape Communist Regime.
27: January 25, 1949: Soviet Bloc States Establish Council for Mutual Econom
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