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The Cold War
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The Cold War

Author: David Taylor
Publisher: Chicago : Heinemann Library, ©2001.
Series: 20th-century perspectives
Edition/Format: Book : Elementary and junior high school : English
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Material Type: Elementary and junior high school
Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: David Taylor
ISBN: 1575724340 9781575724348
OCLC Number: 45044255
Description: 48 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 27 cm.
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.
Series Title: 20th-century perspectives
Responsibility: David Taylor.

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