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Author:   J. Swift
Publisher:   Palgrave Macmillan
Imprint:   Palgrave Macmillan
Dimensions:   Width: 19.10cm , Height: 1.30cm , Length: 23.50cm
Weight:   0.445kg
ISBN:  

9780333994030

ISBN 10:   0333994035
Pages:   120
Publication Date:   30 October 2003
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  General/trade ,  Professional & Vocational ,  Undergraduate
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Preface PART 1: THE ORIGINS OF THE COLD WAR The Russian Revolution and the World The Comintern and the Red Scare in the West in the 1920s Chaos and Communism in China, 1918-1939 Foreign Policy under Stalin The Grand Alliance in World War II The Zonal Division of Germany The End of the War Against Japan Eastern Europe 1944-1949 PART 2: THE HEIGHT OF THE COLD WAR The Truman Doctrine Marshall Aid The Berlin Blockade The Chinese Communist Victory NATO and the Warsaw Pact Other Regional Security Pacts The Malayan Emergency Korea: Partition and War Korea: The UN Intervenes Budapest, 1956 Eisenhower and Central America The Two Chinas The Cultural Revolution Cuba: Castro's Revolution and the Bay of Pigs The Cuban Missile Crisis The Sino-Soviet Split The Berlin Wall Culture and the Cold War Capitalism v. Communism in the 1960s The Peace Corps Southeast Asia: Partition and War Southeast Asia; American Intervention Southeast Asia: The Fall of the South The Non-Aligned Movement The Prague Spring Intelligence Gathering The Middle East Wars and the Threat to World Peace Détente in the 1970s The Arms Race Arms Sales and Military Assistance Nuclear Proliferation Capitalism v. Communism in the 1980s Nicaragua and the Sadanistas The Cold War in Africa The Soviet Invasion of Afghanistan The Early Reagan Years - Renewed Cold War PART 3: THE END OF THE COLD WAR AND AFTER Gorbachev's Reforms The Fall of Communism in Eastern Europe The Break-up of the USSR The Legacy of the Cold War: Yugoslavia The Legacy of the Cold War: Russia The Surviving Communist World Select Bibliography

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Praise for books in the Palgrave Concise Historical Atlas Series: a useful text and library reference...can serve as a supplemental volume or stand alone as a short text - Nationalities Papers ... a valuable tool for the classroom and the general public. -Multicultural Review

Praise for books in the Palgrave Concise Historical Atlas Series: a useful text and library reference...can serve as a supplemental volume or stand alone as a short text -- Nationalities Papers . . . a valuable tool for the classroom and the general public. - Multicultural Review

Praise for books in the Palgrave Concise Historical Atlas Series: <br> a useful text and library reference...can serve as a supplemental volume or stand alone as a short text -- Nationalities Papers <br>. . . a valuable tool for the classroom and the general public. - Multicultural Review <br>

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DR. JOHN SWIFT is a lecturer at St. Martin's College, Lancaster, and also an honorary research fellow at Lancaster University History Department. He is the author of Labour in Crisis: Clement Attlee and the Labour Party in Opposition, 1931-34 and Peter the Great.

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