UID:
almafu_9960962644402883
Format:
1 online resource (xxxii, 443 pages) :
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illustrations, maps.
ISBN:
979-84-00-62807-8
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979-82-16-06251-6
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1-280-49690-8
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9786613592132
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1-61069-004-4
Series Statement:
Gale eBooks
Content:
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.
Note:
Includes index.
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Cover; Contents; Overview of the Cold War; Causes of the Cold War; Consequences of the Cold War; REFERENCE ENTRIES; Acheson, Dean Gooderham (1893-1971); Afghanistan War (1979-1989); Africa; Arab Nationalism; Bay of Pigs (April 17, 1961); Berlin Blockade and Airlift (1948-1949); Berlin Crises (1958-1961); Berlin Wall (August 13, 1961-November 9, 1989); Brandt, Willy (1913-1992); Brezhnev, Leonid (1906-1982); Central Intelligence Agency; Churchill, Winston (1874-1965); Civil Defense; Committee on the Present Danger; Communist Revolutionary Warfare; Congo Civil War (1960-1965); Cuba
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Cuban Missile Crisis (October 1962)Dominican Republic, U.S. Interventions in; Dulles, John Foster (1888-1959); Eisenhower, Dwight David (1890-1969); Geneva Conference (1954); Gorbachev, Mikhail (1931-); Greek Civil War (1946-1949); Gromyko, Andrey (1909-1989); Gulags; Helsinki Final Act (1975); Hiss, Alger (1904-1996); Ho Chi Minh (1890-1969); Hoover, John Edgar (1895-1972); Human Rights; Hydrogen Bomb; Indochina War (1946-1954); Israel; Johnson, Lyndon Baines (1908-1973); Kennan, George Frost (1904-2005); Kennedy, John Fitzgerald (1917-1963); Khrushchev, Nikita (1894-1971)
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Kissinger, Henry (1923-)Korean War (1950-1953); Laos; Latin America, Popular Liberation Movements in; Literature; Malayan Emergency (1948-1960); Mao Zedong (1893-1976); Marshall Plan; McCarthyism; Missiles, Intercontinental Ballistic; Moscow Meeting, Brezhnev and Nixon (May 22-30, 1972); Mutual Assured Destruction; National Security Act (July 26, 1947); National Security Agency; Nixon, Richard Milhous (1913-1994); Non-Aligned Movement; North American Aerospace Defense Command; North Atlantic Treaty Organization, History of (1948-1990); NSC-68, National Security Council Report
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Nuclear Arms RaceNuclear Tests; Ostpolitik; Partial Test Ban Treaty (August 5, 1963); Peace Movements; Perestroika; Prague Spring (1968); Radio Free Europe and Radio Liberty; Reagan, Ronald Wilson (1911-2004); Sakharov, Andrei Dimitrievich (1921-1989); Sino-Soviet Split (1956-1966); Solidarity Movement; Sputnik (October 4, 1957); Stalin, Josef (1879-1953); Strategic Air Command; Strategic Arms Limitation Talks and Treaties; Strategic Arms Reduction Talks and Treaties; Strategic Defense Initiative; Tiananmen Square (June 4, 1989); Tito, Josip Broz (1892-1980); Truman Doctrine (March 12, 1947)
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U-2 Incident (May 1960)United Nations; Vietnam War (1957-1975); Vladivostok Meeting (November 22-24, 1974); Warsaw Pact; Washington Summit Meeting, Reagan and Gorbachev (December 7-10, 1987); Yeltsin, Boris (1931-2007); PRIMARY SOURCE DOCUMENTS; Declaration on Liberated Europe: The Yalta Conference (February 1945); Ho Chi Minh: Telegrams to President Harry S. Truman (September 29, 1945, and February 28, 1946); Winston Churchill: ""The Sinews of Peace"" (Iron Curtain Speech) (March 5, 1946); George C. Marshall: Remarks by the Secretary of State (Marshall Plan) (June 5, 1947)
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North Atlantic Treaty (1949)
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English
Language:
English
DOI:
10.5040/9798400628078
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