The Columbia Guide to the Cold War (Columbia Guides to American History and Cultures)

This reference contains narrative essays on key events and issues, and also features an A-to-Z encyclopedia, a concise chronology, and an annotated resource section listing books, articles, films, novels, web sites, and CD-ROMs on Cold War themes. The Cold War was the longest conflict in American history, and the defining event of the second half of the twentieth century. Since its recent and abrupt cessation, we have only begun to measure the effects of the Cold War on American, Soviet, post-Soviet, and international military strategy, economics, domestic policy, and popular culture. __The Columbia Guide to the Cold War__ is the first in a series of guides to American history and culture that will offer a wealth of interpretive information in different formats to students, scholars, and general readers alike. This reference contains narrative essays on key events and issues, and also features an A-to-Z encyclopedia, a concise chronology, and an annotated resource section listing books, articles, films, novels, web sites, and CD-ROMs on Cold War themes.

The Cold War was the longest conflict in American history, and the defining event of the second half of the twentieth century. Since its recent and abrupt cessation, we have only begun to measure the effects of the Cold War on American, Soviet, post-Soviet, and international military strategy, economics, domestic policy, and popular culture. The Columbia Guide to the Cold War is the first in a series of guides to American history and culture that will offer a wealth of interpretive information in different formats to students, scholars, and general readers alike. This reference contains narrative essays on key events and issues, and also features an A-to-Z encyclopedia, a concise chronology, and an annotated resource section listing books, articles, films, novels, web sites, and CD-ROMs on Cold War themes.

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Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- INTRODUCTION -- I. Narrative Overview -- 1. The Cold War and Its Historians -- 2. The Cold War Begins: 1945-1953 -- 3. From the Thaw to the Brink: 1953-1962 -- 4. Vietnam and Détente: 1962-1975 -- 5. The New Cold War: 1976-1984 -- 6. The End of the Cold War: 1985-1990 -- NOTES -- II. The Cold War A to Z -- III. Concise Chronology -- IV. Resources -- Introduction: Looking for Resources -- Section I. Topics -- Section II. Memoirs and Biographies -- Section III. Bibliographies, Reference Works, and Primary-Source Collections -- Section IV. Journals, Projects/Archives, and Presidential Libraries -- Section V. Electronic Resources -- Section VI. Films and Novels -- Appendix: The Costs of the Cold War -- INDEX -- Backmatter The Cold War was the longest conflict in American history, and the defining event of the second half of the twentieth century. Since its recent and abrupt cessation, we have only begun to measure the effects of the Cold War on American, Soviet, post-Soviet, and international military strategy, economics, domestic policy, and popular culture. This reference contains an extensive narrative overview of key events and issues, and also features a concise dictionary of terms, institutions, and people, a condensed chronology, and an annotated resource section listing books, articles, films, novels, websites, and more than forty CD-ROMs on Cold War themes and topics. The Cold War was the defining event of the second half of the twentieth century: It began as the guns of World War II, the most destructive war in human history, had barely fallen silent.