Quoted in Michael Beschloss, ed., Taking Charge: The Johnson White House Tapes, 1963–1964 (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1998), 401–3. 5. Quoted in Andrew Preston, The War Council: McGeorge Bundy, the NSC, and Vietnam (Cambridge, ...
... Zieger , Lawrence Freedman , and Melvyn Leffler , each of whom read the manuscript and offered valuable suggestions for its improvement . I also thank Rebecca O'Connor for encouragement , advice , and support throughout , along with ...
The Soviet Union Does Not Seek Peaceful Coexistence with the United States Richard V. Allen Nikita Khrushchev reformed many of Joseph Stalin's rigid and oppressive domestic and foreign policies when he became Soviet premier in 1958.
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The Cold War: Superpower Tensions and Rivalries
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.
... Lyndon B. 13, 16, 25 Kennedy, John F. 20, 21, 31 Kent State University 27 KGB 23 Khrushchev, Nikita 21 Kissinger, ... Harry S. 6, 8 U.S. Army 14–15 United Nations 14 Vance, Cyrus 36 Vecchio, Mary Ann 27 Vietnam 16, 24–25, ...
One pilot , Gail S. Halvorsen , thought the children of Berlin could use something more . Using tiny parachutes made from handkerchiefs , he and his crew began dropping “ bombs ” of chocolate and gum from their plane down to the city ...
The Cold War
Hardly any part of the world escaped its influence. David Painter provides a compact and analytical study that examines the origins, course, and end of the Cold War.
When Lord Moran, Churchill's physician, saw him in February 1945, he thought the president displayed all the symptoms of hardening of the arteries in the brain. Moran, quite prophetically, gave him only a few months to live.
Evaluates the second half of the twentieth century in light of its first fifty years, chronicling how the world transformed from a dark era of international communism and nuclear weapons to a time of political and economic freedom.
8, 1962 (Malin notes), Kremlin Decision-Making project, Miller Center UVA. ... See Khrushchev to Kennedy (undated but probably July 5, 1962), FRUS, 1961–63, 6: 137–40; memo of Khrushchev–UThant conversation, Aug.
Acheson, D. (1969) Present at the Creation: My Years in the State Department (New York) Adomeit, H. (1982) Soviet ... Soviet Union and Arms Control (New York) Bowker, M. and Williams, P. (1988) Superpower Détente: A Re-appraisal ...
The Cold War was a conflict between the competing ideologies of communism and capitalism.
"This volume describes and analyzes the cultural history and representation of the Cold War from an international perspective.
... THEORY Robin Wilson NUMBERS Peter M. Higgins NUTRITION David A. Bender OBJECTIVITY Stephen Gaukroger OCEANS Dorrik Stow THE OLD TESTAMENT Michael D. Coogan THE ORCHESTRA D. Kern Holoman ORGANIC CHEMISTRY Graham Patrick ORGANIZATIONS ...
Translated and edited by Strobe Talbott. New York: Bantam, 1971. ———. Khrushchev Remembers: The Last Testament. Translated and edited by Strobe Talbott. Boston: Little, Brown, 1974. Khrushchev, Sergei. Khrushchev on Khrushchev: An ...
The flamboyant Harvey and the temperate Pitovranov made a curious contrast. Like all legends, “Big Bill” prompted exaggeration. The outsize thirty-sevenyear-old drank up to five martinis before raising a fork to his lunch, and he seemed ...
Each title in this series supports a specific topic in the IB history guide through thorough content coverage and examination guidance, helping students develop a good knowledge and understanding of the required content alongside the skills ...