| Description |
48 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 27 cm |
| Series |
20th-century perspectives.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (page 46) and index. |
| Contents |
What is the Cold War? -- How did the Cold War start? -- The Iron Curtain descends -- The Truman Doctrine, 1947 -- The Berlin airlift -- Superpower rivalry, 1945-1969 -- Cold War spy scandal -- The Korean war, 1950-1953 -- Revolution in Hungary, 1956 -- The Berlin wall goes up -- Escaping to the West -- The Cuban missile crisis, 1962 -- The Prague spring, 1968 -- War in Vietnam -- Americans protest -- Detente, 1968-1979 -- Cold War again -- Enter Mikhail Gorbachev -- 1989: year of revolutions -- The end of the cold war. |
| Summary |
A study of the Cold War, explaining what it was and how it started, discussing the progress of the conflict, and looking at events that led to the end of hostilities. Includes photographs and primary source materials. |
| Subject |
Cold War -- Juvenile literature.
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World politics -- 1945-1989 -- Juvenile literature.
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| ISBN |
1575724340 (library binding) |
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