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• Title:Cold War : the essential reference guide / James R. Arnold and Roberta Wiener, editors.
  
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• Other Contributors/Collections:Arnold, James R., 1952-
  Wiener, Roberta, 1952-
  Ebooks Corporation.
  
• Published/Created:Santa Barbara, Calif. : Abc-clio, ©2012.
  

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  • Call Number: D840
    
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• Library of Congress Subjects:Cold War--Encyclopedias.
  World politics--1945-1989--Encyclopedias.
  
• Subject(s):Electronic books.
  
• Description:1 online resource ; cm.
  
• Summary: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.
  
• Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
  Description based on print version record.
  
• ISBN:9781610690041 (electronic bk.)
  1610690044 (electronic bk.)
  9781610690034 (hardcopy : alk. paper)
  1610690036 (hardcopy : alk. paper)
  
• Contents:Machine generated contents note: 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)
  Minsk Declarations (Dissolution of the Soviet Union) (December 8, 1991).