Overview

This book will help you understand how the superpowers grew and vied for dominance, and how the balance was lost. All the important aspects of the war are covered, from what JFK and his assassin had in common to a discussion of whether the tension ended after the fall of the Berlin Wall. Give yourself the opportunity to understand the global reach of this 45-year-long conflict, which shaped the latter half of the twentieth century.

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Author:   Carole Bryan-Jones
Publisher:   John Murray Press
Imprint:   Teach Yourself
Dimensions:   Width: 13.10cm , Height: 1.30cm , Length: 19.80cm
Weight:   0.234kg
ISBN:  

9781444105254

ISBN 10:   1444105256
Pages:   288
Publication Date:   27 August 2010
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   To order  
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Table of Contents

01: The origins of the cold war : Definition of the term : The great powers : Conflicting ideologies Communism and Capitalism : Background to their relationship prior to the Second World War : Uneasy wartime allies : Conflicting aims as the Second World War nears its end 02: Europe at the end of the Second World War : Yalta : Potsdam : Increasing tension between the Big Three : The Iron Curtain descends 03: Containment : Soviet expansion in Eastern Europe : The Greek Civil War : Tito's stand against Stalin in 1948 : The Truman Doctrine : The Marshall Plan 04: Germany : Effects of the Second World War : Nuremberg Trials : Berlin Blockade and Airlift how the West kept its toehold behind the iron curtain : NATO & Warsaw Pact 05: The Far East : China 1949-50 : The Korean War and Malay emergency : The Domino Theory 06: The Thaw : Detente in the 1950s : Changes in the USSR - Khrushchev and de Stalinisation : Hungarian uprising - Why didn't the West implement the Roll Back theory? 07: The Arms and Space Race : Nuclear arms race - 1960 : The Space Race - Sputnik and Flopnik : Gary Powers and the U2 incident : Failure of the Paris Summit : Berlin Crisis - the wall and stand off at checkpoint Charlie : Ostpolitik 08: Kennedy and Khrushchev : The Cuban Missile Crisis:- Castro v. Batista : Bay of Pigs : U2 sighting of missile sites on Cuba : ExComm - 2 weeks debate between hawks and doves : A Win-Win outcome 09: A new Domino : Tension in the Far East : The Sino-Soviet Split : Vietnam : The Asian grasshopper rids itself of the French elephant : American and Vietcong tactics : The Tet offensive : The Television War : Anti-Vietnam Protests - what are we fighting for? : Vietnamization 10: Czechoslovakia : Prague Spring : Effects on the Cold War : The Brezhnev Doctrine 11: Detente 1971-79 : Motives for Detente USSR/USA : Motives for Detente USA/ China : SALT Talks 1972 : Failure of Detente : The War in Afghanistan 12: The Second Cold War : Ronald Reagan - a change of policy : Star Wars - a new arms race? : Poland 1980-90 Solidarity movement 13: Changes in the USSR : Mikhail Gorbachev : Perestroika : Glasnost : Detente -'We can do business together' (M. Thatcher) 14: The collapse of Soviet influence in Eastern Europe : East Germany 1989-90 : Czechoslovakia 1989 The Velvet Revolution : Hungary 1988-90 : Romania 1989 : Bulgaria 15: Cold War Culture : Spies : Double agents : Monetary reward : Unwitting accomplices : Literature : Anti-Russian literature : Films : Spy movies : James Bond movies 16: The end of the Cold War : The Failed Russian Coup in 1991 - the Rise of Boris Yeltsin : Yugoslavia - Tito's time bomb explodes : Who was responsible for the Cold War? The historical debate : Was it all inevitable? : Who won? : Significance of the Cold War

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Carole Bryan Jones is an experienced teacher and A Level examiner with a specialist knowledge of twentieth century history.

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