THE COLD WAR ATOMIC BOMB TRUMAN RUSSIA CHINA CUBA RED SCARE McCARTHY VIETNAM KOR

Description: THE COLD WAR ATOMIC BOMB TRUMAN RUSSIA CHINA CUBA RED SCARE McCARTHY VIETNAM KOR THE COLD WAR ATOMIC BOMB TRUMAN RUSSIA CHINA CUBA RED SCARE McCARTHY VIETNAM KOREA A HISTORY IN DOCUMENTS OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS SOFTBOUND BOOK in ENGLISH by ALLAN M. WINKLER EARLY ANTAGONISM (ORIGINS OF THE ATOMIC BOMB, THE TRUMAN DOCTRINE, THE MARSHALL PLAN, SOVIET BOMB, CHINA WHITE PAPER, NSC-68, WAR IN KOREA) THE ANTI-COMMUNIST CRUSADE (HOLLYWOOD AND THE HUAC, CHAMBERS vs HISS, THE ROSENBERGS ON TRIAL, SENATOR JOE McCARTHY, CULTURAL RESPONSES, THE ARMY vs McCARTHY) TO THE BRINK (EISENHOWERS INAUGURAL ADDRESS, LIBERATION OF THE CAPTIVE PEOPLES, THE DOMINO THEORY, UNSTABLE PEACE, KENNEDYS INAUGURAL ADDRESS, THE BAY OF PIGS INVASION CUBA CASTRO CIA, STANDING UP TO THE SOVIETS, CUBAN MISSILE CRISIS 1962) CATASTROPHE IN VIETNAM (FRENCH COLONIAL RULE, WAR IN INDOCHINA, DIEN BIEN PHU, THE GENEVA CONFERENCE, HORRORS OF WAR, ANTI-WAR MOVEMENT, VIETNAMIZATION, REUNIFICATION) AN END AT LAST (THE LIMITED TEST BAN TREATY OF 1963, SALT TREATIES, REAGANS NUCLEAR STRATEGY, AN END TO THE COLD WAR) THE END OF WW2 BERLIN 1945 GERMANY THE BITTER AFTERMATH OF VICTORY THE IRON CURTAIN FULTON, MISSOURI 1946 BIKINI ATOLL ATOMIC TESTING 1946 THE MARSHALL PLAN 1947-1952 BRITISH OXFORD SPY RING (BURGESS, MacLEAN, PHILBY) THE COMMUNIST THREAT TO ITALY BERLIN BLOCKADE AND AIRLIFT KOREAN WAR 1950-1953 INCHON 1950 CHINESE INTERVENTION ARMISTICE THE RED SCARE THE HOUSE UN-AMERICAN ACTIVITIES COMMITTEE (WHITAKER CHAMBERS, ALGER HISS, THE ROSENBERGS, HOLLYWOOD BLACKLIST, J. EDGAR HOOVER, RICHARD NIXON, ROY M. COHN, SENATOR JOSEPH McCARTHY) AFTER STALIN (GEORGI MALENKOV, WALTER ULBRICHT, JOHN FOSTER DULLES, NIKITA KRUSHCHEV) HUNGARIAN REVOLUTION 1956 SPUTNIK AND THE ATOMIC BOMB (CURTIS LeMAY) U-2 CRISIS & FRANCIS GARY POWERS THE MISSILE GAP PRESIDENT DWIGHT DAVID EISENHOWER THE BERLIN WALL GUATEMALA AND CUBA 1954-1962 CUBAN MISSILE CRISIS OCTOBER 1962 THE VIETNAM WAR 1954 1968 SAIGON 1963 JFK ASSASSINATION 1963 MUTUAL ASSURED DESTRUCTION MAD CULTURE WARS (CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT, ANTI-WAR) PRAGUE SPRING CZECHOSLOVAKIA 1968 DÉTENTE NIXON GOES TO CHINA 1972 SURROGATE WARS (ANGOLA 1975, MIDDLE EAST ISRAELI ARAB WARS, ASWAN 1964 EGYPT) THE NUCLEAR FREEZE (1977-1981) IRANIAN HOSTAGE CRISIS TEHRAN AFGHANISTAN PRESIDENT RONALD REAGAN ISRAELI INVASION OF LEBANON EL SALVADOR FREEDOM FIGHTERS STAR WARS SHOOTDOWN OF KOREAN AIRLINES FLIGHT 007 COLD WAR SPIES MIKHAIL GORBACHEV CHERNOBYL GENEVA ICELAND PERESTROIKA TIANANMEN SQUARE MASSACRE PEOPLE POWER HOW IT ALL ENDED --------------------------- Additional Information from Internet Encyclopedia The Cold War is a term commonly used to refer to a period of geopolitical tension between the United States and the Soviet Union and their respective allies, the Western Bloc and the Eastern Bloc. Historians do not fully agree on its starting and ending points, but the period is generally considered to span from the announcement of the Truman Doctrine on 12 March 1947 to the dissolution of the Soviet Union on 26 December 1991. The term cold war is used because there was no large-scale fighting directly between the two superpowers, but they each supported major regional conflicts known as proxy wars. The conflict was based around the ideological and geopolitical struggle for global influence by these two superpowers, following their temporary alliance and victory against Nazi Germany and Imperial Japan in 1945. Aside from the nuclear arsenal development and conventional military deployment, the struggle for dominance was expressed via indirect means such as psychological warfare, propaganda campaigns, espionage, far-reaching embargoes, rivalry at sports events, and technological competitions such as the Space Race. The Western Bloc was led by the United States as well as a number of other First World nations that were generally liberal democratic but tied to a network of authoritarian states, most of which were their former colonies. The Eastern Bloc was led by the Soviet Union and its Communist Party, which had an influence across the Second World and was also tied to a network of authoritarian states. The US government supported anti-communist and right-wing governments and uprisings across the world, while the Soviet government funded left-wing parties and revolutions around the world. As nearly all the colonial states achieved independence in the period from 19451960, they became Third World battlefields in the Cold War. The first phase of the Cold War began shortly after the end of World War II in 1945. The United States and its allies created the NATO military alliance in 1949 in the apprehension of a Soviet attack and termed their global policy against Soviet influence containment. The Soviet Union formed the Warsaw Pact in 1955 in response to NATO. Major crises of this phase included the 19481949 Berlin Blockade, the 19451949 Second Chinese Civil War, the 19501953 Korean War, the 1956 Hungarian Revolution, the 1956 Suez Crisis, the Berlin Crisis of 1961, the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis and the 1964-1975 Vietnam War. The US and the USSR competed for influence in Latin America, the Middle East, and the decolonizing states of Africa, Asia, and Oceania. Following the Cuban Missile Crisis, a new phase began that saw the Sino-Soviet split between China and the Soviet Union complicate relations within the Communist sphere leading to a series of border confrontations, while France, a Western Bloc state, began to demand greater autonomy of action. The USSR invaded Czechoslovakia to suppress the 1968 Prague Spring, while the US experienced internal turmoil from the civil rights movement and opposition to the Vietnam War. In the 1960s1970s, an international peace movement took root among citizens around the world. Movements against nuclear weapons testing and for nuclear disarmament took place, with large anti-war protests. By the 1970s, both sides had started making allowances for peace and security, ushering in a period of détente that saw the Strategic Arms Limitation Talks and the US opening relations with the People's Republic of China as a strategic counterweight to the USSR. A number of self-proclaimed Marxist governments were formed in the second half of the 1970s in the Third World, including Angola, Mozambique, Ethiopia, Cambodia, Afghanistan, and Nicaragua. Détente collapsed at the end of the decade with the beginning of the SovietAfghan War in 1979. The early 1980s was another period of elevated tension. The United States increased diplomatic, military, and economic pressures on the Soviet Union, at a time when it was already suffering from economic stagnation. In the mid-1980s, the new Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev introduced the liberalizing reforms of glasnost ("openness", c. 1985) and perestroika ("reorganization", 1987) and ended Soviet involvement in Afghanistan in 1989. Pressures for national sovereignty grew stronger in Eastern Europe, and Gorbachev refused to militarily support their governments any longer. In 1989, the fall of the Iron Curtain after the Pan-European Picnic and a peaceful wave of revolutions (with the exception of Romania and Afghanistan) overthrew almost all communist governments of the Eastern Bloc. The Communist Party of the Soviet Union itself lost control in the country and was banned following an abortive coup attempt in August 1991. This in turn led to the formal dissolution of the USSR in December 1991, the declaration of independence of its constituent republics and the collapse of communist governments across much of Africa and Asia. The United States was left as the world's sole superpower. The Cold War and its events have left a significant legacy. It is often referred to in popular culture, especially with themes of espionage and the threat of nuclear warfare. FREE scheduling, supersized images and templates. Get Vendio Sales Manager.Make your listings stand out with FREE Vendio custom templates! FREE scheduling, supersized images and templates. Get Vendio Sales Manager. Over 100,000,000 served. Get FREE counters from Vendio today!

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