Cold War
The Essential Reference Guide
Published on 16. January 2012
Book
Hardback
476 pages
978-1-61069-003-4 (ISBN)
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The impact of the Cold War is still being felt around the world today. This insightful single-volume reference captures the events and personalities of the era, while also inspiring critical thinking about this still-controversial period.
Cold War: The Essential Reference Guide is intended to introduce students to the tensions between the Soviet Union and the United States that dominated international affairs in the second half of the 20th century. A comprehensive overview essay, plus separate essays on the causes and consequences of the conflict, will provide readers with the necessary context to understand the many facets of this complex era.
The guide's expert contributors cover all of the influential people and pivotal events of the period, encompassing the United States, the Soviet Union, Europe, Southeast Asia, China, the Middle East, Latin America, and Africa from political, military, and cultural perspectives. Reference entries offer valuable insight into the leaders and conflicts that defined the Cold War, while other essays promote critical thinking about controversial and significant Cold War topics, including whether Ronald Reagan was responsible for ending the Cold War, the impact of Sputnik on the Cold War, and the significance of the Prague Spring.
Cold War: The Essential Reference Guide is intended to introduce students to the tensions between the Soviet Union and the United States that dominated international affairs in the second half of the 20th century. A comprehensive overview essay, plus separate essays on the causes and consequences of the conflict, will provide readers with the necessary context to understand the many facets of this complex era.
The guide's expert contributors cover all of the influential people and pivotal events of the period, encompassing the United States, the Soviet Union, Europe, Southeast Asia, China, the Middle East, Latin America, and Africa from political, military, and cultural perspectives. Reference entries offer valuable insight into the leaders and conflicts that defined the Cold War, while other essays promote critical thinking about controversial and significant Cold War topics, including whether Ronald Reagan was responsible for ending the Cold War, the impact of Sputnik on the Cold War, and the significance of the Prague Spring.
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Overall, this work is extremely useful. It is informative, easy-to-use, and well-written. * ARBA * The editors and 56 other experts contributed the 85 signed alphabetical entries, along with six essays discussing the causes and consequences of the Cold War, the growth of technology, evolving East-West relations, proxy wars and military aid, and Ronald Reagan and the Cold War. Each entry and essay contains bibliographical references. . . . A recommended purchase for school, academic, and public libraries. * Booklist *More details
Language
English
Place of publication
United States
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Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
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Height: 260 mm
Width: 183 mm
Thickness: 30 mm
Weight
1090 gr
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James R. Arnold is a military historian and the author of more than twenty books.
Roberta Wiener is managing editor of the Journal of Military History.
Roberta Wiener is managing editor of the Journal of Military History.
Content
Overview of the Cold War
Causes of the Cold War
Consequences of the Cold War
REFERENCE ENTRIES
Acheson, Dean Gooderham (1893-1971)
Afghanistan War (1979-1989)
Africa
Arab Nationalism
Bay of Pigs (April 17, 1961)
Berlin Blockade and Airlift (1948-1949)
Berlin Crises (1958-1961)
Berlin Wall (August 13, 1961-November 9, 1989)
Brandt, Willy (1913-1992)
Brezhnev, Leonid (1906-1982)
Central Intelligence Agency
Churchill, Winston (1874-1965)
Civil Defense
Committee on the Present Danger
Communist Revolutionary Warfare
Congo Civil War (1960-1965)
Cuba
Cuban Missile Crisis (October 1962)
Dominican Republic, U.S. Interventions in
Dulles, John Foster (1888-1959)
Eisenhower, Dwight David (1890-1969)
Geneva Conference (1954)
Gorbachev, Mikhail (1931-)
Greek Civil War (1946-1949)
Gromyko, Andrey (1909-1989)
Gulags
Helsinki Final Act (1975)
Hiss, Alger (1904-1996)
Ho Chi Minh (1890-1969)
Hoover, John Edgar (1895-1972)
Human Rights
Hydrogen Bomb
Indochina War (1946-1954)
Israel
Johnson, Lyndon Baines (1908-1973)
Kennan, George Frost (1904-2005)
Kennedy, John Fitzgerald (1917-1963)
Khrushchev, Nikita (1894-1971)
Kissinger, Henry (1923-)
Korean War (1950-1953)
Laos
Latin America, Popular Liberation Movements in
Literature
Malayan Emergency (1948-1960)
Mao Zedong (1893-1976)
Marshall Plan
McCarthyism
Missiles, Intercontinental Ballistic
Moscow Meeting, Brezhnev and Nixon (May 22-30, 1972)
Mutual Assured Destruction
National Security Act (July 26, 1947)
National Security Agency
Nixon, Richard Milhous (1913-1994)
Non-Aligned Movement
North American Aerospace Defense Command
North Atlantic Treaty Organization, History of (1948-1990)
NSC-68, National Security Council Report
Nuclear Arms Race
Nuclear Tests
Ostpolitik
Partial Test Ban Treaty (August 5, 1963)
Peace Movements
Perestroika
Prague Spring (1968)
Radio Free Europe and Radio Liberty
Reagan, Ronald Wilson (1911-2004)
Sakharov, Andrei Dimitrievich (1921-1989)
Sino-Soviet Split (1956-1966)
Solidarity Movement
Sputnik (October 4, 1957)
Stalin, Josef (1879-1953)
Strategic Air Command
Strategic Arms Limitation Talks and Treaties
Strategic Arms Reduction Talks and Treaties
Strategic Defense Initiative
Tiananmen Square (June 4, 1989)
Tito, Josip Broz (1892-1980)
Truman Doctrine (March 12, 1947)
U-2 Incident (May 1960)
United Nations
Vietnam War (1957-1975)
Vladivostok Meeting (November 22-24, 1974)
Warsaw Pact
Washington Summit Meeting, Reagan and Gorbachev (December 7-10, 1987)
Yeltsin, Boris (1931-2007)
PRIMARY SOURCE DOCUMENTS
Declaration on Liberated Europe: The Yalta Conference (February 1945)
Ho Chi Minh: Telegrams to President Harry S. Truman (September 29, 1945, and February 28, 1946)
Winston Churchill: "The Sinews of Peace" (Iron Curtain Speech) (March 5, 1946)
George C. Marshall: Remarks by the Secretary of State (Marshall Plan) (June 5, 1947)
North Atlantic Treaty (1949)
Harry S. Truman: First U.S. Acknowledgment of Soviet Atomic Bomb Detonation (September 23, 1949)
Joseph McCarthy: Speech on Spread of Communism (February 20, 1950)
Harry S. Truman: Declaration of a National Emergency (December 16, 1950)
Douglas MacArthur: Post-Recall Speech to Congress (April 19, 1951)
Korean Armistice Agreement (1953)
Dwight D. Eisenhower: "The Row of Dominoes," Presidential Press Conference (April 7, 1954)
Warsaw Security Pact (1955)
Mao Zedong: "U.S. Imperialism Is a Paper Tiger" (July 14, 1956)
Imre Nagy: Final Message to the Hungarian People (1956)
Soviet Announcement of Sputnik (October 5, 1957)
John F. Kennedy: Inaugural Address (January 20, 1961)
Vadim Orlov: Account of the B-59 Incident (1962)
John F. Kennedy: Commencement Address Announcing Cooperation with Soviets (June 10, 1963)
Nuclear Test Ban Treaty (1963)
Tonkin Gulf Resolution (August 7, 1964)
Chinese Announcement of Nuclear Test (October 16, 1964)
Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty (1968)
Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty I (May 26, 1972)
U.S. War Powers Act (November 7, 1973)
Yuri Andropov: Memorandum to Brezhnev on Afghanistan (December 1979)
Civil Defense Instructions for Home Fallout Shelters (1980)
U.S. Government: Disappearances and Human Rights, Three Document Excerpts (1980-1996)
Ronald Reagan: The "Evil Empire" (March 8, 1983)
Ronald Reagan: "Tear Down This Wall" Speech (June 12, 1987)
The Minsk Declarations (Dissolution of the Soviet Union) (December 8, 1991)
Competition Spurs Technology
Evolving East-West Relations
Proxy Wars and Military Aid
Ronald Reagan and the Cold War
Cold War Chronology
Bibliography
List of Editors and Contributors
Index
Causes of the Cold War
Consequences of the Cold War
REFERENCE ENTRIES
Acheson, Dean Gooderham (1893-1971)
Afghanistan War (1979-1989)
Africa
Arab Nationalism
Bay of Pigs (April 17, 1961)
Berlin Blockade and Airlift (1948-1949)
Berlin Crises (1958-1961)
Berlin Wall (August 13, 1961-November 9, 1989)
Brandt, Willy (1913-1992)
Brezhnev, Leonid (1906-1982)
Central Intelligence Agency
Churchill, Winston (1874-1965)
Civil Defense
Committee on the Present Danger
Communist Revolutionary Warfare
Congo Civil War (1960-1965)
Cuba
Cuban Missile Crisis (October 1962)
Dominican Republic, U.S. Interventions in
Dulles, John Foster (1888-1959)
Eisenhower, Dwight David (1890-1969)
Geneva Conference (1954)
Gorbachev, Mikhail (1931-)
Greek Civil War (1946-1949)
Gromyko, Andrey (1909-1989)
Gulags
Helsinki Final Act (1975)
Hiss, Alger (1904-1996)
Ho Chi Minh (1890-1969)
Hoover, John Edgar (1895-1972)
Human Rights
Hydrogen Bomb
Indochina War (1946-1954)
Israel
Johnson, Lyndon Baines (1908-1973)
Kennan, George Frost (1904-2005)
Kennedy, John Fitzgerald (1917-1963)
Khrushchev, Nikita (1894-1971)
Kissinger, Henry (1923-)
Korean War (1950-1953)
Laos
Latin America, Popular Liberation Movements in
Literature
Malayan Emergency (1948-1960)
Mao Zedong (1893-1976)
Marshall Plan
McCarthyism
Missiles, Intercontinental Ballistic
Moscow Meeting, Brezhnev and Nixon (May 22-30, 1972)
Mutual Assured Destruction
National Security Act (July 26, 1947)
National Security Agency
Nixon, Richard Milhous (1913-1994)
Non-Aligned Movement
North American Aerospace Defense Command
North Atlantic Treaty Organization, History of (1948-1990)
NSC-68, National Security Council Report
Nuclear Arms Race
Nuclear Tests
Ostpolitik
Partial Test Ban Treaty (August 5, 1963)
Peace Movements
Perestroika
Prague Spring (1968)
Radio Free Europe and Radio Liberty
Reagan, Ronald Wilson (1911-2004)
Sakharov, Andrei Dimitrievich (1921-1989)
Sino-Soviet Split (1956-1966)
Solidarity Movement
Sputnik (October 4, 1957)
Stalin, Josef (1879-1953)
Strategic Air Command
Strategic Arms Limitation Talks and Treaties
Strategic Arms Reduction Talks and Treaties
Strategic Defense Initiative
Tiananmen Square (June 4, 1989)
Tito, Josip Broz (1892-1980)
Truman Doctrine (March 12, 1947)
U-2 Incident (May 1960)
United Nations
Vietnam War (1957-1975)
Vladivostok Meeting (November 22-24, 1974)
Warsaw Pact
Washington Summit Meeting, Reagan and Gorbachev (December 7-10, 1987)
Yeltsin, Boris (1931-2007)
PRIMARY SOURCE DOCUMENTS
Declaration on Liberated Europe: The Yalta Conference (February 1945)
Ho Chi Minh: Telegrams to President Harry S. Truman (September 29, 1945, and February 28, 1946)
Winston Churchill: "The Sinews of Peace" (Iron Curtain Speech) (March 5, 1946)
George C. Marshall: Remarks by the Secretary of State (Marshall Plan) (June 5, 1947)
North Atlantic Treaty (1949)
Harry S. Truman: First U.S. Acknowledgment of Soviet Atomic Bomb Detonation (September 23, 1949)
Joseph McCarthy: Speech on Spread of Communism (February 20, 1950)
Harry S. Truman: Declaration of a National Emergency (December 16, 1950)
Douglas MacArthur: Post-Recall Speech to Congress (April 19, 1951)
Korean Armistice Agreement (1953)
Dwight D. Eisenhower: "The Row of Dominoes," Presidential Press Conference (April 7, 1954)
Warsaw Security Pact (1955)
Mao Zedong: "U.S. Imperialism Is a Paper Tiger" (July 14, 1956)
Imre Nagy: Final Message to the Hungarian People (1956)
Soviet Announcement of Sputnik (October 5, 1957)
John F. Kennedy: Inaugural Address (January 20, 1961)
Vadim Orlov: Account of the B-59 Incident (1962)
John F. Kennedy: Commencement Address Announcing Cooperation with Soviets (June 10, 1963)
Nuclear Test Ban Treaty (1963)
Tonkin Gulf Resolution (August 7, 1964)
Chinese Announcement of Nuclear Test (October 16, 1964)
Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty (1968)
Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty I (May 26, 1972)
U.S. War Powers Act (November 7, 1973)
Yuri Andropov: Memorandum to Brezhnev on Afghanistan (December 1979)
Civil Defense Instructions for Home Fallout Shelters (1980)
U.S. Government: Disappearances and Human Rights, Three Document Excerpts (1980-1996)
Ronald Reagan: The "Evil Empire" (March 8, 1983)
Ronald Reagan: "Tear Down This Wall" Speech (June 12, 1987)
The Minsk Declarations (Dissolution of the Soviet Union) (December 8, 1991)
Competition Spurs Technology
Evolving East-West Relations
Proxy Wars and Military Aid
Ronald Reagan and the Cold War
Cold War Chronology
Bibliography
List of Editors and Contributors
Index