The Cold War reference guide : a general history and annotated chronology with selected biographies / by Richard Alan Schwartz.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Schwartz, Richard Alan, 1951- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

World politics--1945-1989.

World politics.

Cold War.

Chronology, Historical.

Politicians--Biography.

Politicians.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (328 p.)

Place of Publication:

Jefferson, North Carolina : McFarland, [1997]

Summary:

Presents a general history of the Cold War, with an overview of its root causes and the policies and theories that were in place from 1947 through 1990. This work also features an annotated chronology of important Cold War events, and short biographies of some of the major United States' political figures and world leaders.

Contents:

Cover; Contents; Preface ; Abbreviations ; Section I: A General History of the Cold War ; 1: Overview; 2: The Pre-Cold War (1945-47); 3: Containment (1947-54); 4: Massive Retaliation, Second Strike, and Flexible Response (1954-69); 5: Mutually Assured Destruction and Détente (1969-79); 6: Winnable Nuclear War, the Evil Empire, and the Collapse of Communism (1980-90); 7: The Aftermath of the Cold War ; Section II: Highlights of the Cold War ; 8: The Bomb

9: McCarthyism and the Red Scare 10: The Korean War ; 11: The Second Berlin Crisis ; 12: The Cuban Missile Crisis ; 13: The Vietnam War and Protest ; 14: Covert Operations: The CIA and the FBI ; Section III: Chronologies ; An Annotated Chronology of Important Cold War Events; A Chronology of Superpower and Allied Leadership

U.S. Presidential Administrations and Soviet Leadership Leaders of the Western Allies ; Leaders of the Soviet Union and the People's Republic of China ; Section IV: Prominent Cold War Figures ; Biographies of U.S. Political Figures; Dean Acheson; James Baker ; Bernard Baruch ; Zbigniew Brzezinski ; McGeorge Bundy ; George Bush

James Byrnes Jimmy Carter ; Roy Cohn ; Allen Dulles ; John Foster Dulles ; Dwight Eisenhower ; Gerald Ford ; Alexander Haig ; Armand Hammer ; Alger Hiss ; J. Edgar Hoover ; Henry Jackson ; Lyndon Johnson ; George Kennan ; John Kennedy ; Henry Kissinger ; Curtis LeMay

Douglas MacArthur Patrick McCarran ; Joseph McCarthy ; Robert McNamara ; George Marshall ; Richard Nixon ; Ronald Reagan ; Ethel and Julius Rosenberg ; Dean Rusk ; George Shultz ; Harry Truman ; Cyrus Vance ; Caspar Weinberger ; Biographies of Superpower Leaders; Konrad Adenauer; Yuri Andropov

Clement Attlee

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 299-307) and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-4766-1078-9