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The Cold War - A History in Documents (Paperback, 2nd Revised edition)
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The Cold War - A History in Documents (Paperback, 2nd Revised edition)
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The cold war lasted for more than fifty years and polarized the
world. Rooted in political and ideological disagreements dating
back to the Russian Revolution of 1917, the war emerged from
disputes that intensified in the wake of World War II. In The Cold
War: A History in Documents, Second Edition, Allan M. Winkler
excerpts speeches by Soviet premier Joseph Stalin and British prime
minister Winston Churchill in order to demonstrate the growing
abyss between the two political systems. President Harry S.
Truman's announcement of the existence of a Soviet atomic bomb and
his speech to Congress launching the Truman Doctrine testify to the
gravity of the situation. The complex politics of the Vietnam War
appear in voices of those as divergent as Vietnamese nationalist Ho
Chi Minh, President Lyndon B. Johnson, antiwar protestors, and a
participant in the My Lai massacre. A picture essay, "The Atom
Unleashed," provides a collection of photographs and cartoons
tracing one of the most controversial discoveries of the twentieth
century. And a final chapter chronicles in detail the end of the
cold war.
The second edition of The Cold War: A History in Documents offers
more thorough coverage of the 1970s through the1990s. The book
features additional material on China and Africa, and several new
images, including a Herblock editorial cartoon about the Marshall
Plan and a French Communist Party poster for peace in Vietnam.
There is also a revised note on sources and interpretation and
updates to the lists of further reading and websites.
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