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Cold War on the brink of apocolypse

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  • Author: Painter, David S.
    Edition: Unabridged
    Date:
    Created
    2011
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    Copyrighted
    2005
    Summary:

    In this course, Georgetown University professor, David S. Painter, examines the Cold War and its far-reaching, global implications in order to understand the history of the second half of the twentieth century and beyond.

    Contents:
    • Hiroshima and the origins of the Cold War
    • The superpowers and the world in 1945
    • The struggle for Europe
    • Globalizing in the Cold War
    • The Korean War and changing power balances
    • Turmoil in the Third World and the end of detente
    • The arms race and the breakdown of detente
    • The Reagan offensive
    • Gorbachev and the end of the Cold War
    • Understanding the Cold War.

     

    Genre:
    History and geography
    Subject(s): 1945-1989 | Cold War | World politics
    Original Publisher: Prince Frederick, Md., Recorded Books
    Language(s): English
    ISBN: 9781449894139