The Cold War
Subtitle: a history in documents
By: Allan M. Winkler
Series: Pages from history; Pages from history
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2000
Place of publication: Oxford; New York
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource] :
Number of pages: 159
ISBN-13: 9781423774075
Subjects: Sources; JUVENILE NONFICTION; World politics; Cold War; History; Foreign relations; General
Description: 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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 148-149) and index.

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Table of contents: title: What is a document?; title: How to read a document; title: Early antagonism : Origin of the atomic bomb; title: Tensions and strategies; title: The Truman doctrine; title: The Marshall plan; title: A Soviet bomb; title: The China white paper; title: NSC-68; title: War in Korea; title: The anticommunist crusade : Hollywood and HUAC; title: Chambers vs. Hiss; title: The Rosenbergs on trial; title: Senator Joe McCarthy; title: Cultural responses; title: Army vs. McCarthy; title: To the brink : Eisenhower's inaugural address; title: Liberation of captive peoples; title: The domino theory; title: Unstable peace; title: Kennedy's inaugural address; title: Bay of pigs; title: Standing up to the Soviets; title: The Cuban missile crisis; title: The atom unleashed; title: Catastrophe in Vietnam : French colonial rule; title: War in Indochina; title: The Geneva conference; title: Nation building in Vietnam; title: Horrors of war; title: Antiwar movement; title: Vietnamization; title: Reunification; title: An end at last : The nuclear test ban treaty of 1963; title: SALT treaties; title: Reagan's nuclear strategy; title: An end to the cold war.