The Cold War For Dummies

Keychain explosives, poison-tipped umbrellas, mighty atom bombs and mutilating Napalm gas - and that's just scratching the surface! Welcome to the Cold War: one of the deadliest, craftiest, and most intriguing conflicts in modern history. Running down the Cold War timeline from start to finish, and showing how East-West tensions live on today (cue Bush versus Putin...), this easy-to-follow guide explains all the bloody invasions, propaganda, and political backstabbing from a global perspective, so you're sure to get the full story. Covering everything from the Berlin Blockade and the Vietnam War, to the Space Race, spies, Red-baiting, and Polonium-210, "The Cold War For Dummies" is all you need to understand the politics, origins, and legacy of this unique stand-off. "The Cold War For Dummies" covers: Part I The Isms Chapter 1 Adam Smith v Karl Marx, Chapter 2 Lenin and the Russian Revolution, Chapter 3 The Thirties, Chapter 4 Right v Left in the Second World War; Part II A Freezing Cold War 1946-1964, Chapter 5 Allies fall out 1946-56, Chapter 6 China and Korea, Chapter 7 Atoms and Agents, Chapter 8 Eyeball to Eyeball, Chapter 9 The fridge or the tractor?,
Competing cultures; and, Part III, Can we cool this Cold War? 1965-1985, Chapter 10 Vietnam, Chapter 11 My enemy's enemy - China and Russia fall out, Chapter 12 Springtime for Brezhnev, Chapter 13 All shades of red, Chapter 14 Mr Reagan's Empire, Chapter 15, The Russians are coming! Cold War culture. It also covers: Part IV Was that it? 1985-2008, Chapter 16 Mr Gorbachev and his Interesting Ideas, Chapter 17 1989 and All That, Chapter 18 Yugoslavia, Chapter 19 No Change in China? Chapter 20, Just like old times, eh, Mr Bush and Mr Putin?; Part V The Part of Tens, Chapter 21 Ten Cold War spies, Chapter 22 Ten Cold War films, and Chapter 23 Ten Cold War places to visit.