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Winkler, Allan M., 1945-
Subjects
Cold War -- Sources.
World politics -- 1945-1989 -- Sources.
United States -- Foreign relations -- Russia -- Sources.
Russia -- Foreign relations -- United States -- Sources.
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The Cold War : a his...
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The Cold War : a history in documents / Allan M. Winkler.
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Winkler, Allan M., 1945-
Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, c2000.
Subjects
Cold War -- Sources.
World politics -- 1945-1989 -- Sources.
United States -- Foreign relations -- Russia -- Sources.
Russia -- Foreign relations -- United States -- Sources.
ISBN:
0195123565 (lib. : alk. paper)
019516637X (pbk.)
Series:
Pages from history
Description:
159 p. : ill. ; 27 cm.
Contents:
What is a document? -- How to read a document -- Early antagonism : Origin of the atomic bomb -- Tensions and strategies -- The Truman doctrine -- The Marshall plan -- A Soviet bomb -- The China white paper -- NSC-68 -- War in Korea -- The anticommunist crusade : Hollywood and HUAC -- Chambers vs. Hiss -- The Rosenbergs on trial -- Senator Joe McCarthy -- Cultural responses -- Army vs. McCarthy -- To the brink : Eisenhower's inaugural address -- Liberation of captive peoples -- The domino theory -- Unstable peace -- Kennedy's inaugural address -- Bay of pigs -- Standing up to the Soviets -- The Cuban missile crisis -- The atom unleashed -- Catastrophe in Vietnam : French colonial rule -- War in Indochina -- The Geneva conference -- Nation building in Vietnam -- Horrors of war -- Antiwar movement -- Vietnamization -- Reunification -- An end at last : The nuclear test ban treaty of 1963 -- SALT treaties -- Reagan's nuclear strategy -- An end to the cold war.
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Summary:
Uses contemporary documents to explore the development of the Cold War struggle, the consequences in the 1950s and 1960s, and the lasting effects on American social and cultural patterns.
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