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a history in documents

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August 13, 2021 | History
An edition of The Cold War (2000)

The Cold War

a history in documents

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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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English
Pages
159

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Cover of: The Cold War
The Cold War: a history in documents
2011, Oxford University Press
in English - 2nd ed.
Cover of: The Cold War
The Cold War: A History in Documents (Pages from History)
April 12, 2003, Oxford University Press, USA
in English
Cover of: The Cold War
The Cold War: A History in Documents (Pages from History)
January 9, 2001, Oxford University Press, USA
in English
Cover of: The Cold War
The Cold War: a history in documents
2000, Oxford University Press
in English
Cover of: The Cold War
The Cold War: a history in documents
2000, Oxford University Press
electronic resource : in English

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Table of 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.

Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references (p. 148-149) and index.

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Oxford, New York
Series
Pages from history, Pages from history

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
909.82/5
Library of Congress
D839.3 .W56 2000eb

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Format
[electronic resource] :
Pagination
1 online resource (159 p.)
Number of pages
159

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Open Library
OL27024905M
Internet Archive
coldwarhistorydo00wink
ISBN 10
1423774078
ISBN 13
9781423774075
OCLC/WorldCat
69937175

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The cold war developed out of international tensions that had been suppressed during World War II.
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