| Description |
48 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 27 cm. |
| Series |
20th-century perspectives |
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20th-century perspectives.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (page 46) and index. |
| Contents |
What is the Cold War? -- How did the Cold War start? -- The Iron Curtain descends -- The Truman Doctrine, 1947 -- The Berlin airlift -- Superpower rivalry, 1945-1969 -- Cold War spy scandal -- The Korean war, 1950-1953 -- Revolution in Hungary, 1956 -- The Berlin wall goes up -- Escaping to the West -- The Cuban missile crisis, 1962 -- The Prague spring, 1968 -- War in Vietnam -- Americans protest -- Detente, 1968-1979 -- Cold War again -- Enter Mikhail Gorbachev -- 1989: year of revolutions -- The end of the Cold War -- Cold War timeline -- Map of the Cold War hot spots. |
| Subject |
Cold War -- Juvenile literature.
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World politics -- 1945-1989 -- Juvenile literature.
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Cold War.
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World politics -- 1945-1989.
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| ISBN |
1575724340 library binding |
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