The Cold WarTimeline- Table of Contents - Further Reading List- Bibliography- Endnotes- Mini-Biographies of Important Figures- Glossary- Index |
Contents
INTRODUCTION | 4 |
FROM ALLIES TO ENEMIES | 21 |
A NEW RED SCARE | 27 |
COMMUNISM ON THE MARCH | 37 |
DEMOCRATICOR ANTICOMMUNIST? | 46 |
VIETNAM AND THE PRAGUE SPRING | 54 |
DÉTENTE | 62 |
REAGAN AND GORBACHEV | 72 |
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Afghan Afghanistan agreement Allied American Communist Party arms race Army atomic bomb attack became began believed Berlin Airlift Berlin Wall Britain called Carter Castro China Cold Cold War Communism Communist government Communist leaders countries created Cuba Cuban Missile Crisis Czechoslovakia destroy détente East Germans Eastern Bloc Eastern Europe economy Eisenhower elections enemy ernment EYEWITNESS QUOTE feared fight freedom Gorbachev Helsinki Accords Hollywood Hollywood Ten HUAC Hungary invaded invasion Japan Kennedy Khrushchev Korea launched Lerner Publications Company living McCarthy Meanwhile military millions Minh Minneapolis mujahideen munist Nixon North Korean nuclear weapons October Poland Prague Spring protested Reagan Red Scare republics revolution Rosenberg Russian secret signed South Vietnamese Soviet leaders Soviet troops Soviet Union spies Stalin superpowers supported Treaty Truman U.S. leaders U.S. officials U.S. president U.S. Senate United Nations USSR Vietnam wanted Warsaw Pact West Berlin West Germany World War II