The Cold War
Subtitle: a history in documents
By: Allan M. Winkler
Edition: 2nd ed.
Series: Pages from history; Pages from history
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 160
ISBN-13: 9780199765997; 9780199765980
Subjects: Sources; World politics; Cold War; Foreign relations
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: What is a document?; title: How to read a document; title: Note on sources and interpretation; title: Early antagonism; title: 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; title: 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; title: 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: Picture essay; title: The atom unleashed; title: Catastrophe in Vietnam; title: 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; title: The Nuclear Test Ban Treaty of 1963; title: SALT treaties; title: Reagan's nuclear strategy; title: An end to the Cold War; title: Timeline.