| Description |
1 online resource (xxx, 323 pages) : illustrations, photos. |
| Series |
Gale eBooks
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Africa -- Anglo-American relations -- Antinuclear movement -- Antiwar movement -- Arms control -- China policy -- Cold War conclusion -- Congress and foreign policy -- Cuba -- Cuban missile crisis -- Decolonization -- Democracy imperiled -- Diem -- France -- Glasnost and perestrokia -- Gorbachev -- Hiss -- Hungary -- JFK and LBJ -- Korean War -- McCarthyism -- Middle east -- Military balance -- Monolithic communism -- National liberation -- Nicaragua -- Nixon and Kissinger -- Ostpolitik -- Power vacuum -- Reagan doctrine -- Reagan's transformation -- Reagan's victory -- Soviet empire -- Stalin -- Team B -- Third World -- Tito -- War powers resoultion. |
| Summary |
Addresses heavily debated questions by offering different critical perspectives on major historical events, drawn from all time periods and from all parts of the globe. This volume covers the Cold War. Provides students with an enhanced understanding of events only summarized in history texts, helps stimulate critical thinking and provides ideas for papers and assignments. |
| Subject |
Cold War.
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Communism and international relations.
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Communist countries -- Foreign relations.
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World politics -- 1945-1989.
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United States -- Relations -- Soviet Union.
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Soviet Union -- Relations -- United States.
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| Added Author |
Showalter, Dennis, editor.
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DuQuenoy, Paul, editor.
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Gale Group.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: History in dispute, Vol. 6. Detroit : St. James Press, c2000 9781558624122 |
| ISBN |
9781558627109 (electronic book) |
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1558627103 (electronic book) |
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9781558624122 |
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1558624120 |
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