| Description |
1 online resource (xxvi, 347 pages) : illustrations, maps, photos |
| Series |
Gale eBooks
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Admirals' Revolt -- Afghanistan -- Alliance for Progress -- Baruch Plan -- Berlin crises -- Cambodia -- Central America -- China Hands -- CIA operations -- Civil liberties -- Containment -- Cuba policy -- Detente -- Finlandization -- Flexible response -- Guatemala and Chile -- Hitler and Stalin -- Human rights -- Ideology -- Israel -- Limited nuclear war -- Marshall Plan -- Militarizing containment -- Military "gaps" -- Missile defense -- NATO -- New Look -- Nonproliferation -- Nuclear deterrence -- Nuclear preemption -- Nuclear spying -- Nuclear weapons -- Origins -- Quemoy and Matsu -- Rollback -- Suez war -- Universalism -- Vietnam War -- Yalta Agreement -- Yom Kippur War. |
| 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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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 |
Frankel, Benjamin, 1949- editor.
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Gale Group.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: History in dispute, Vol. 1. Detroit : St. James Press, c2000 9781558623958 |
| ISBN |
9781558627055 (electronic book) |
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1558627057 (electronic book) |
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9781558623958 |
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1558623957 |
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