Cold War Reference Library Volume 2 Almanac

Cover
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Title Page
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ISBN 0787690872......Page 4
Volume 1......Page 6
Volume 2......Page 7
Introduction......Page 8
Coverage and features......Page 12
U•X•L Cold War Reference Library......Page 13
Comments and suggestions......Page 14
Words to Know......Page 16
People to Know......Page 30
Cold War Timeline......Page 36
Research and Activity Ideas......Page 50
8 Renewed Tensions......Page 58
European unrest......Page 60
The missile race......Page 63
Backandforth testban proposals......Page 66
The Middle East erupts......Page 68
Second Taiwan Strait crisis......Page 72
Africa......Page 73
A Cuban revolution......Page 75
Darkening skies......Page 77
For More Information......Page 79
9 Cuban Missile Crisis......Page 80
A young Fidel Castro......Page 81
Moving toward communism......Page 83
The Bay of Pigs fiasco......Page 84
Communism on the march......Page 86
Revelations of October 14, 1962......Page 88
President Kennedy addresses the American people......Page 91
To the brink of nuclear war......Page 94
For More Information......Page 97
10 Mutual Assured Destruction......Page 100
Beginning to build nuclear stockpiles......Page 102
The Strategic Triad......Page 105
Keeping tensions high......Page 107
Scared silly......Page 108
Opposing the bomb......Page 111
More bombs, more treaties......Page 113
For More Information......Page 115
11 An Unsettled World......Page 118
Secondstrike strategies......Page 123
The Berlin and Cuba crises......Page 125
Latin American challenges......Page 128
Upheaval in communist China......Page 132
The Prague Spring: More communist upheaval......Page 134
War in Indochina......Page 135
For More Information......Page 140
12 Home Front Turmoil: The 1960s......Page 142
Militaryindustrial complexes......Page 144
Racial strife in the United States......Page 145
The Vietnam War and antiwar protests......Page 150
The counterculture......Page 153
Backlash......Page 155
Soviet citizens’ struggles......Page 157
China’s Cultural Revolution......Page 160
For More Information......Page 162
13 Détente: A Lessening of Tensions......Page 164
China opens to the United States......Page 167
Strategic Arms Limitation Talks (SALT I)......Page 169
Influence of Cold War worldwide......Page 173
Watergate......Page 177
Helsinki Accords......Page 180
Détente stalled......Page 181
For More Information......Page 183
14 A Freeze in Relations......Page 186
A Carter perspective......Page 188
Carter’s human rights campaign......Page 190
Containing communism in Africa......Page 192
Improving relations with communist China......Page 194
Camp David Accords......Page 195
Support for the contras......Page 197
Americans held hostage......Page 199
Afghanistan and the Carter Doctrine......Page 202
A costly arms race takes off......Page 203
Reagan escalates the arms race......Page 204
Reagan Doctrine, dictatorships, and foreign policy......Page 206
War in the Middle East......Page 208
Star Wars......Page 209
For More Information......Page 212
15 End of the Cold War......Page 214
A new Soviet vision......Page 217
Making peace......Page 219
A cautious new president......Page 223
The fall of communism in Eastern Europe......Page 224
Communism challenged in the Soviet Union......Page 227
German reunification......Page 230
A new Europe......Page 231
Gorbachev under fire......Page 234
An attempted Soviet coup......Page 235
Collapse of the Soviet Union......Page 236
Cold War costs......Page 239
Ethnic conflicts and world terrorism......Page 241
For More Information......Page 243
Where to Learn More......Page 244