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Overview
The impact of the Cold War is still being felt around the world today. This insightful single-volume reference captures the events and personalities of the era, while also inspiring critical thinking about this still-controversial period.
Front Cover.
Half Title Page.
Title Page.
Copyright Page.
Contents.
Overview of the Cold War.
Causes of the Cold War.
Consequences of the Cold War.
1: Acheson, Dean Gooderham (1893–1971).
2: Afghanistan War (1979–1989).
3: Africa.
4: Arab Nationalism.
5: Bay of Pigs (April 17, 1961).
6: Berlin Blockade and Airlift (1948–1949).
7: Berlin Crises (1958–1961).
8: Berlin Wall (August 13, 1961–November 9, 1989).
9: Brandt, Willy (1913–1992).
10: Brezhnev, Leonid (1906–1982).
11: Central Intelligence Agency.
12: Churchill, Winston (1874–1965).
13: Civil Defense.
14: Committee on the Present Danger.
15: Communist Revolutionary Warfare.
16: Congo Civil War (1960–1965).
17: Cuba.
18: Cuban Missile Crisis (October 1962).
19: Dominican Republic, U.S. Interventions in.
20: Dulles, John Foster (1888–1959).
21: Eisenhower, Dwight David (1890–1969).
22: Geneva Conference (1954).
23: Gorbachev, Mikhail (1931–).
24: Greek Civil War (1946–1949).
25: Gromyko, Andrey (1909–1989).
26: Gulags.
27: Helsinki Final Act (1975).
28: Hiss, Alger (1904–1996).
29: Ho Chi Minh (1890–1969).
30: Hoover, John Edgar (1895–1972).
31: Human Rights.
32: Hydrogen Bomb.
33: Indochina War (1946–1954).
34: Israel.
35: Johnson, Lyndon Baines (1908–1973).
36: Kennan, George Frost (1904–2005).
37: Kennedy, John Fitzgerald (1917–1963).
38: Khrushchev, Nikita (1894–1971).
39: Kissinger, Henry (1923–).
40: Korean War (1950–1953).
41: Laos.
42: Latin America, Popular Liberation Movements in.
43: Literature.
44: Malayan Emergency (1948–1960).
45: Mao Zedong (1893–1976).
46: Marshall Plan.
47: McCarthyism.
48: Missiles, Intercontinental Ballistic.
49: Moscow Meeting, Brezhnev and Nixon (May 22–30, 1972).
