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The Cold War is the term used to define the period between the end of World War II in and the ultimate collapse of the Soviet Union and its satellite states in The protatgonists in the Cold War were the West, led The cold war book the United States, and the eastern bloc, led by the Soviet Union.

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Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading Cold War: A History From Beginning to End/5(74). Top 10 books about the cold war The long, nuclear-armed standoff that followed the second world war was a terrifying parody of peace –.

The Cold War was a period of geopolitical tension between the Soviet Union and the United States and their respective allies, the Eastern Bloc and the Western Bloc, after World War period is generally considered to span the Truman Doctrine to the dissolution of the Soviet term "cold" is used because there was no large-scale fighting directly.

The Cold War was an ongoing political rivalry between the United States and the Soviet Union and their respective allies that developed after World War hostility between the two superpowers was first given its name by George Orwell in an article published in Orwell understood it as a nuclear stalemate between “super-states”: each possessed weapons of.

The ABC Book of the Cold War A America; Capitalist society and wanted to stop global spread of communism. B Berlin airlift; The U.S. and Britain stated it to help the striving countries in western Europe. For days; planes delivered nurishment and supplies to West Berlin.

Cold War Children's Book The End Non-Alignment The Cold War ended in When Mikhail Gorbachev assumed the reins of power in the Soviet Union in Gorbachev introduced the policies of glasnost and perestroika to the USSR.

Ended after the fall of Berlin wall. Glasnost. What was the cold war. Was it really cold. The United States feel they need to contain the Soviets in Eastern Europe. They wanted to stop the spread o. The Cold War: A New History is meant chiefly, therefore, for a new generation of readers for whom the Cold War was never “current events.” I hope readers who lived through the Cold War will also find the volume useful, because as Marx once said (Groucho, not Karl), “Outside of a dog, a book is a man’s best friend.

A persuasive if occasionally overstated argument that the Cold War played a crucial role in advancing civil rights in the United States. Noting that in a seminal book Gunnar Myrdal defined the contradictions between racism and the ideology of democracy as the quintessentially American dilemma, Dudziak (Law/Univ.

of Southern California) goes on to. The author will tell you the purpose behind the book's writing -- "this is the book I wanted to write." John Lewis Gaddis's preface to "The Cold War: A New History" does just that.

Gaddis, a professor of Cold War history at Yale, wrote this book because he now has students who were 4 years old when the Berlin Wall came down.5/5(5).

The Butter Battle Book is a rhyming story written by Dr. was published by Random House on Janu It is an anti-war story; specifically, a parable about arms races in general, mutually assured destruction and nuclear weapons in particular. The Butter Battle Book was a New York Times Notable Book of the Year.

This book was written during the Cold War era Author: Dr. Seuss. "The history of the Cold War has been the history of the world since " So begins The Cold War: A History, a wide-ranging narrative by award-winning political commentator Martin Walker, which was one of the first major studies of its kind.

Now that it's over, it's crucial to our future to understand how the Cold War has shaped us and, especially, to recognize it as the economic /5(2). At Cold War's End: US Intelligence on the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe,ed. by Benjamin B. Fischer (HTML and PDF files at ) Filed under: Cold War in literature Queering Cold War Poetry: Ethics of Vulnerability in Cuba and the United States (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c), by Eric Keenaghan (PDF at Ohio.

The Cold War was a period of heightened military and political tensions between the United States and its allies on one side and the Soviet Union and its allies on the other.

Both superpowers engaged in a variety of contests against each other, including military brinkmanship and proxy wars in smaller countries to spread their ideologies. The Cold War: A Very Short Introduction ‘McMahon has produced a commanding short narrative of a vital period in recent world history.

Clear, concise, and compelling, The Cold War is a superb primer on the subject.’ Fredrik Logevall, University of California, Santa Barbara.

This book belongs on the bookshelf of everyone interested in the Cold War culture of Asia."—Poshek Fu, author of Between Shanghai and Hong Kong: The Politics of Chinese Cinemas "Klein shines a brilliant klieg light on the still largely unknown South Korean classic films of the s by placing them in a global context of Cold War culture and.

The Cold War: Containment. By the time World War II ended, most American officials agreed that the best defense against the Soviet threat was a. • The Cold War by Odd Arne Westad is published by Allen Lane (£30). To order a copy for £ go to or call Free UK p&p over £10, online orders only.

As such, it has to be a landmark in Cold War Noir. It was filmed a couple of years later with James Mason as Smiley, renamed Dobbs.

I don’t think John le Carré cares much for the film, but it, like the book, has a stark simplicity, showing a cold war growing inevitably out of blurred margins of the hot one. It’s one of my favourite films.The Cold War Studies Book Series was established in with the academic publisher Rowman & Littlefield.

As of early, thirty-six volumes have been published. The series, sponsored by Cold War Studies at Harvard University, seeks to expand and enrich what is known about Cold War events and themes. It also encourages scholars to use their research on Cold War topics .Changing Nature Involvement Background The United States' involvement in Vietnam began as an occupation strictly run by military advisors, but through.