Contributor
Maus, Derek C.
Imprint:San Diego : Greenhaven Press, c2003.
Description272 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Note:The origins of the Cold War: dividing the world at Yalta / Caroline Kennedy-Pipe. - Churchill's "iron curtain" divides the Cold War / Lynn Boyd Hinds and Theodore Otto Windt Jr. - Containing Communism: the Truman doctrine / Richard Crockatt. - The beginnings of "nuclear diplomacy" / Jonathan M. Weisgall. - American attitudes toward the bomb during the early Cold War years / Paul Boyer. - The Korean War and the limits of the Cold War balance of power / David Rees. - Anticommunism and the "red scare" of the 1950s / Stephen J. Whitfield. - Berlin and Cuba: Cold War confrontation at its peak / Norman Friedman. - Bringing the Cold War to Africa / Carol R. Saivetz and Sylvia Woodby. - To use or not to use: implications of nuclear weapons / Tom Engelhardt. - Formulating the strategy of deterrence / Spencer R. Weart. - Détente comes to an end / H. W. Brands. - The second Cold War / Fred Halliday. - Beginning of the end: the Eastern European revolutions of 1989 / John Feffer. - The last years of the Soviet Union / David S. Mason. - The Cold War was a relatively stable peace / Eric Hobsbawn. - Societ expansionism caused the Cold War / Robert Conquest. - World War II ad the Cold War in comparison / Stephen E. Ambrose. - The danger of Stalinist Communism was both real and exaggerated / Vojtech Mastny. - Appendix of documents.
Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographical references (p. 263-265) and index.
