Published: ABC-CLIO, 2012
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1 online resource (xxxii, 443 pages) : illustrations.
Contents:
“…Acheson, Dean Gooderham (1893-1971) -- Afghanistan War (1979-1989) -- Africa -- Arab nationalism -- Bay of Pigs (April 17, 1961) -- Berlin blockade and airlift (1948-1949) -- Berlin crises (1958-1961) -- Berlin Wall (August 13, 1961-November 9, 1989) -- Brandt, Willy (1913-1992) -- Breshnev, Leonid (1906-1982) -- Central Intelligence Agency -- Churchill, Winston (1874-1965) -- Civil defense -- Committee on the Present Danger -- Communist revolutionary warfare -- Congo civil war (1960-1965) -- Cuba -- Cuban missile crisis (October 1962) -- Dominican Republic, U.S. interventions in -- Dulles, John Foster (1888-1959) -- Eisenhower, Dwight David (1890-1969) -- Geneva Conference (1954) -- Gorbachev, Mikhail (1931- ) -- Greek civil war (1946-1949) -- Gromyko, Andrey (1909-1989) -- Gulags -- Helsinki Final Act (1975) -- Hiss, Alger (1904-1996) -- Ho Chi Minh (1890-1969) -- Hoover, John Edgar (1895-1972) -- Human rights -- Hydrogen bomb -- Indochina War (1946-1954) -- Israel -- Johnson, Lyndon Baines (1908-1973) -- Kennan, George
Frost (1904-2005) -- Kennedy, John Fitzgerald (1917-1963) -- Khrushchev, Nikita (1894-1971) -- Kissinger, Henry (1923- ) -- Korean War (1950-1953) -- Laos -- Latin America, popular liberation movements in -- Literature -- Malayan emergency (1948-1960) -- Mao Zedong (1893-1976) -- Marshall plan -- McCarthyism -- Missiles, intercontinental ballistic -- Moscow meeting, Brezhnev and Nixon (May 22-30, 1972) -- Mutual assured destruction -- National Security Act (July 26, 1947) -- National Security Agency -- Nixon, Richard Milhous (1913-1994) -- Non-Aligned Movement -- North American Aerospace Defense Command -- North Atlantic Treaty Organization, history of (1948-1990) -- NSC-68, National Security Council
Report -- Nuclear arms race -- Nuclear tests -- Ostpolitik -- Partial Test Ban Treaty (August 5, 1963) -- Peace movements -- Perestroika -- Prague Spring (1968) -- Radio Free Europe and Radio Liberty -- Reagan, Ronald Wilson (1911-2004) -- Sakharov, Andrei Dimitrievich (1921-1989) -- Sino-Soviet split (1956-1966) -- Solidarity movement -- Sputnik (October 4, 1957) -- Stalin, Josef (1879-1953) -- Strategic Air Command -- Strategic Arms Reduction talks and treaties -- Strategic Defense Initiative -- Tiananmen Square (June 4, 1989) -- Tito, Josip Broz (1892-1980) -- Truman Doctrine (March 12, 1947) -- U-2 incident (May 1960) -- United Nations -- Vietnam War (1957-1975) -- Vladivostok meeting (November 22-24, 1974) -- Warsaw Pact -- Washington Summit meeting, Reagan and Gorbachev (December 7-10, 1987) -- Yeltsin, Boris (1931-2007).…”
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