historical Atlas of the Cold War Spain Appreciate @ s readers and studies @ s of our history: When, in my usual 'search and seizure of books cubanos'-not find anything new as far as Cuban literature is concerned, I get to rummage through the history books, which is not bad, because I always end up finding a topic of my interest, as is the case I present below:
ATLAS COLD WAR HISTORY
John Swift
Akal Ediciones, 2008
Madrid, Spain.
117 pages (including maps)
The origins, development and conclusion of the Cold War are sometimes difficult to understand. This affected the lives of everyone in the world, often in ways that were never imagined. It was a crisis that lasted decades.
In this detailed atlas combines the use of detailed maps with text explanations developed. The fifty maps that includes not only useful but vital to understand the geopolitics of the Cold War. The Historical Atlas of the Cold War covers the key events, crises and major events such as:
# The Grand Alliance in World War II
# The Cuban missile crisis
# The non-aligned movement
# The arms race
# The breakup of the USSR
# The post-communist world
"also addresses the consequences of cultural, social and economic of the Cold War. This book is indispensable as a research tool and as a reference work, is also a comprehensive study available to all readers. "
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Foreword THE ORIGINS OF THE COLD WAR
1. The Russian Revolution and the world
2. The Comintern and the first red scare in the West in the twenties
3. Chaos and Communism in China, 1918-1939
4. Stalin's foreign policy
5. The Grand Alliance in World War II
6. The division of Germany into zones
7. The end of the war against Japan
THE BEGINNING OF THE COLD WAR
8. Eastern Europe, 1944-1949
9. The Truman Doctrine
10. The Marshall Plan
11. The Berlin blockade
12. China's communist victory
13. NATO and the Warsaw Pact
14. Other regional security pacts
15. The Malayan Emergency
THE HEIGHT OF THE COLD WAR
16. Korea: War division and
17. Korea: UN intervention
18. Budapest, 1956
19. Eisenhower and Latin America
20. The two Chinas
21. The Berlin Wall
22. Cuba: Castro's revolution and the Bay of Pigs
23. The Cuban missile crisis
THE FINAL PERIOD OF THE COLD WAR
24. The Sino-Soviet split
25. The Cultural Revolution
26. Culture and the Cold War
27. Capitalism against communism in the 1960
28. The Peace Corps
29. Southeast Asia: War division and
30. Southeast Asia: U.S. intervention
31. Southeast Asia: the fall of the south
32. The nonaligned movement
33. Spring Prague
34.
intelligence services 35. Middle East wars and the threat to world peace
36. The loosening of the seventies
37. The arms race
38. Arms sales and military aid
39. Nuclear proliferation
40. Capitalism against communism in the eighties
41. Nicaragua and the Sandinistas
42. The Cold War in Africa
43. The Soviet invasion of Afghanistan
44. Reagan's early years: the renewal of the Cold War
THE END OF THE COLD WAR AND BEYOND
45. Gorbachev's reforms
46. The fall of communism in Eastern Europe
47. The breakup of the USSR
48. The legacy of the Cold War: Yugoslavia
49. The legacy of the Cold War: Russia
50. The surviving communist world
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