The Cold War
By: by Steven Otfinoski
Series: A step into history; Step into history (Scholastic Inc.)
Publisher: Childrens Pr; Children's Press
Published: 2018
Language: eng
Number of pages: 144
ISBN-13: 9780531226919; 9780531230138
Copyright date: 2018
Subjects: Politics and government; Cold War; World politics; Juvenile literature; Foreign relations
Description: "The United States and the Soviet Union were allies during World War II, but a conflict between U.S. democracy and Soviet communism turned them into enemies. This resulted in a war unlike any other, and a fight that was always near the breaking point." -- Back cover.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (page 142) and index.
Table of contents: title: Bloody birth of a new state; title: The United States responds; title: Strange bedfellows; title: Birth of the Cold War; title: The Iron Curtain falls; title: Containing communism; title: The Berlin Blockade; title: One for all against the Soviets; title: Mao's moment; title: The Cold War turns "hot"; title: Korea; title: Cold War spies; title: A dictator dies; title: The red scare; title: Satellites in the skies; title: Khrushchev in America; title: Cuba goes communist; title: The Berlin Wall; title: The race for space; title: A crisis in Cuba; title: Living with the bomb; title: The Vietnam War; title: Nixon in China; title: Limiting nuclear weapons; title: The Sports War; title: Reagan's Star Wars; title: A new day in Russia; title: The fall of the Wall; title: End of the Soviet Union; title: A new world order; title: A second Cold War?; title: Glossary; title: The central players; title: Timeline.