This five volume set of reprinted articles is a definitive source of material on the Cold War, from the wars of Korea and Vietnam to Afghanistan. It discusses the roles of politics, religion, popular culture, civil rights, McCarthyism and feminism. Each volume includes two or three primary documents in addition to articles and an introductory essay.
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Lori Lynn Bogle, Ph.D., is an assistant professor of history at the United States Naval Academy.
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As a result of the recent opening to independent researchers of many archives in European nations once behind the iron Curtain, new histories of the Stalinist period, and succeeding years of Soviet control and intensive political interest in these states, are now being researched and written. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
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As a result of the recent opening to independent researchers of many archives in European nations once behind the iron Curtain, new histories of the Stalinist period, and succeeding years of Soviet control and intensive political interest in these states, are now being researched and written. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
declassified with deletions, nuclear delivery forces, sects crisis, nuclear delivery capability, sixiang wansui, basic national security policy, nuclear war planning, new political thinking, alternative undertaking, nonlethal aid, atomic offensive, consular departments, offensive striking power, finite deterrence, trilateral talks, weapons requirements, early summit, continental defense, peaceful atom, contra aid, damage criteria, single integrated operational plan, atoms for peace, consular functions, yield weapons Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
United States, New York, State Department, White House, Mao Zedong, Kim Young Sam, Saudi Arabia, Cultural Revolution, Department of State, Pathet Lao, South Vietnam, Western Europe, Central America, Chief of Staff, National Security Council, Reagan Doctrine, Strategic Air Command, North Vietnamese, President Reagan, Ronald Reagan, Chiefs of Staff, Palazzo Chigi, Pieck Nachlass, Subject Series, Harriman Papers New!
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- JFK and Vietnam: Deception, Intrigue, and the Struggle for Power by John M. Newman on page 171 (1), page 171 (2), and page 171 (3)
- Strategies of Containment: A Critical Appraisal of Postwar American National Security (Galaxy Books) by John Lewis Gaddis on page 128, page 135, and page 171
- War and Politics by Bernard Brodie on page 73, page 117, and page 136
- Stalin in Power: The Revolution from Above, 1928-1941 by Robert C. Tucker on page 69, and page 70
- Turmoil and Triumph My Years As Secretary of State by George P. Shultz on page 247, and page 260
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