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3) The Cold War
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 9.2 - AR Pts: 3
Description
Discusses the principal causes and events of the Cold War, the period between 1945 to 1991 when the United States and the Soviet Union kept each other in check through mutual fear and distrust, and considers what the outcome might have been had different
Author
Pub. Date
2007,2006
Description
"The 1940s was the most dramatic and decisive decade of the 20th century. This volume explores the Second World War and the origins of the Cold War from the vantage point of two of the great powers of that era, Britain and the USA, and through the eyes of their wartime leaders, Churchill and Roosevelt. It also looks at their chequered relations with Stalin's Russia and at how the Grand Alliance crumbled into an undesired Cold War." "But this is not...
Author
Pub. Date
2015.
Description
The Cold War had seemed like a permanent fixture in global politics, and until its denouement, no Western or Soviet politician had foreseen that an epoch defined by games of irreconcilable one-upmanship between the world's most heavily armed superpowers would end in their lifetimes. Under the long, forbidding shadow of the Cold War, even the smallest miscalculation from either side could result in catastrophe. Everything changed in March 1985 when...