| Description |
1 online resource (552 pages) |
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Longman Companions To History |
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Longman companions to history.
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| Contents |
Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; List of maps; Acknowledgements to the first edition; Acknowledgements to the second edition; List of abbreviations; Dedication; Section One: Chronology; 1. Origins of the Cold War, 1917-41; 2. The 'Big Three', 1941-45; 3. The breakdown of the Grand Alliance, 1945-48; 4. The 'First Cold War', 1948-52; 5. 'The Thaw', 1953-58; 6. Khruschev's Cold War, 1958-62; 7. The Cuban Missile Crisis; 8. Vietnam and early signs of detente, 1962-68; 9. The 'Era of Negotiations', 1969-75; 10. The decline of detente, 1975-79 |
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11. The 'New' Cold War, 1980-8512. The end of the Cold War, 1985-89; 13. The collapse of Soviet Communism, 1989-91; 14. The post-Cold War era, 1992-98; Section Two: Crises and conflicts; 1. Poland and Eastern Europe, 1944-48; 2. Greek Civil War, 1944-45 and 1946-49; 3. Trieste crisis, May 1945; 4. Division of Germany, 1945-49; 5. Chinese Civil War, 1945-49; 6. Iran crisis, March 1946; 7. Black Sea Straits controversy, August 1946; 8. Philippines insurgency, 1945-54 and post-1968; 9. First Indo-China War, 1946-54; 10. First Arab-Israeli War, 1948-49; 11. Malaya emergency, 1948-60 |
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12. Berlin blockade, 1948-4913. Tito-Stalin split, 1948-49; 14. Korean War, 1950-53; 15. China's invasion of Tibet, October 1950; 16. Iran, 1951-54; 17. Berlin rising, June 1953; 18. Guatemala, June 1954; 19. First Quemoy-Matsu crisis, 1954-55; 20. Poland and Hungary, 1956; 21. Sino-Soviet split, c. 1956-61; 22. Suez Crisis, 1956; 23. 'Missile gap', 1957-61; 24. Turco-Syrian War crisis, October 1957; 25. Middle East crisis, July-November 1958; 26. Second Quemoy-Matsu crisis, August-October 1958; 27. Second Berlin crisis, November 1958-May 1959; 28. The Congo, 1960-63; 29. Laos crisis, 1960-62 |
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30. Bay of Pigs, April 196131. Berlin Wall crisis, August 1961; 32. Fourth Berlin crisis: 'Nose to nose', October 1961; 33. Soviet-Albanian split, 1961; 34. Cuban Missile Crisis, October 1962; 35. Sino-Indian War, 1962; 36. Vietnam War, 1965-75; 37. Dominica, April-May 1965; 38. Indo-Pakistani War, September 1965; 39. The Six-Day War, 5-10 June 1967; 40. The Pueblo Incident, 1968; 41. Czechoslovakia's 'Prague Spring', 1968; 42. Sino-Soviet border clashes, 1969-89; 43. Jordan crisis, September 1970; 44. Cienfuegos crisis, September 1970; 45. Poland: the fall of Gomulka, December 1970 |
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46. Indo-Pakistani War, November-December 197147. Chile: the fall of Allende, September 1973; 48. Arab-Israeli 'Yom Kippur' War, October 1973; 49. Portugal and Spain, 1974-76; 50. Angola, 1974-76; 51. Cyprus, July-August 1974; 52. The Mayaguez Incident, May 1975; 53. South-Western Africa (Angola and Namibia), 1975-91; 54. Ogaden (Somali-Ethiopian) War, 1977-78; 55. Vietnamese invasion of Kampuchea, 1977-89; 56. Iran: the fall of the Shah and the hostage crisis, 1978-81; 57. Sino-Vietnamese War, February-April 1979; 58. Nicaragua, 1979-90; 59. Cuban crisis, August-September 1979 |
| Summary |
This reference guide throws light on almost every aspect of postwar international history from the rise of Mao's China to the Bosnian Civil War. It provides a huge wealth of information on East-West relations setting events, crises and conflicts in their full international context |
| Notes |
60. Afghanistan: Soviet intervention, December 1979 |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
World politics -- 1945-1989.
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Cold War.
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HISTORY -- World.
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World politics
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781317878872 |
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1317878876 |
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