Encyclopedia Of Cold War: A Political, Social, And Military History

Publisher ABC-CLIO

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ABC-CLIO

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2007

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9781851097067

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The confrontation of Western capitalism and Soviet and Chinese Communism shaped world affairs for almost the entire second half of the 20th century, a period defined by pervasive political tension, nuclear-fueled nightmares, intense diplomacy, and the transformation of regional/national disputes into test-case ideological battlefields where the superpowers squared off.
Front Cover.
Half Title Page.
Title Page.
Copyright Page.
Dedication.
About the Editors.
Editorial Board.
Editorial Advisory Board.
Contents.
List of Entries.
List of Maps.
Preface.
General Maps.
1: General Essays.
2: The Cold War: A Personal Perspective.
3: Origins of the Cold War to 1950.
4: Course of the Cold War (1950-1991).
5: A.
6: Abbas, Ferhat (1899-1985).
7: Abdullah, King of Jordan (1882-1951).
8: Abel, Rudolf (1903-1971).
9: Abrams, Creighton Williams (1914-1974).
10: Accelerated Development.
11: Acheson, Dean Gooderham (1893-1971).
12: Adamec, Ladislav (1926).
13: Adams, Gerard, Jr. (1948).
14: Adenauer, Konrad (1876-1967).
15: Afghanistan.
16: Afghanistan War (1979-1989).
17: Africa.
18: Africa, Soviet Interventions in.
19: Africa, U.S. Interventions in.
20: African National Congress.
21: Aideed, Mohamed Farah (1934-1996).
22: Aiken, Frank (1898-1983).
23: Air Burst.
24: Aircraft.
25: Aircraft Carriers.
26: AirLand Battle.
27: Albania.
28: Albert II, King of Belgium (1934).
29: Algeria.
30: Algerian War (1954-1962).
31: Alia, Ramiz (1925).
32: Alianza Popular Revolucionaria Americana.
33: Allende Gossens, Salvador (1908-1973).
34: Alliance for Progress.
35: Allied Control Council of Germany.
36: Alsop, Joseph Wright (1910-1989).
37: Americans for Democratic Action.
38: Americas.
39: Amin, Idi (1924?2003).
40: Andreotti, Giulio (1919).
41: Andropov, Yuri (1914-1984).
42: Angleton, James Jesus (1917-1987).
43: Anglo-French Treaty of Alliance (4 March 1947).
44: Anglo-Iranian Oil Crisis (1951-1953).
45: Antall, József (1932-1993).
46: Antarctica and Arctic.
47: Antiaircraft Guns and Missiles.
48: Anti-Americanism.
49: Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty (1972).
50: Antiballistic Missiles.
51: Anticolonialism.
52: Antisatellite Systems.
53: Anti-Semitism.
54: Antonescu, Ion (1882-1946).
55: ANZUS Pact (1 September 1951).
56: Aquino, Benigno, Jr. (1932-1983).
57: Aquino, Corazon (1933).
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