Rupert Colley - The Cold War - History in an Hour

THE COLD WAR

History in an Hour

Rupert Colley

About History in an Hour About History in an Hour Introduction The End of the Second World War: Apocalypse The Beginning of the Cold War: The Freeze Three Speeches: ‘An iron curtain has descended’ The Marshall Plan: ‘Communism cannot be stopped in Europe’ Berlin: ‘You should not and cannot abandon this city and this people’ The Bomb: ‘MAD’ The Korean War: Hot War US Anti-Communism: ‘Reds Under the Bed.’ Stalin’s Final Years: ‘I’m finished, I don’t even trust myself’ Khrushchev: ‘Different roads to socialism’ Space Wars: ‘Flopnik’ The Berlin Wall: ‘Berlin is the testicles of the West’ The Cuban Missile Crisis: ‘We’ll all meet together in Hell’ The Vietnam War: Unwinnable Rebellion: 1968 Nixon: ‘Vietnamization’ China, the USA and the Soviet Union: ‘Ping-pong diplomacy’ The Decline of Détente: ‘Lennonism, not Leninism’ Afghanistan: ‘The Soviet Vietnam’ The Polish Pope and Solidarity: ‘The last nails in the coffin of communism’ The Ex-Actor: ‘Regimes planted by bayonets do not take root’ Gorbachev: ‘Mr Gorbachev, tear down this wall!’ 1989: ‘Time to yield power’ The End of the Soviet Union: ‘The threat of a world war is no more’ Appendix 1: Key Players Appendix 2: Timeline of the Cold War Copyright Got Another Hour? About the Publisher

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Contents

Cover

Title Page THE COLD WAR History in an Hour Rupert Colley

About History in an Hour

Introduction

The End of the Second World War: Apocalypse

The Beginning of the Cold War: The Freeze

Three Speeches: ‘An iron curtain has descended’

The Marshall Plan: ‘Communism cannot be stopped in Europe’

Berlin: ‘You should not and cannot abandon this city and this people’

The Bomb: ‘MAD’

The Korean War: Hot War

US Anti-Communism: ‘Reds Under the Bed.’

Stalin’s Final Years: ‘I’m finished, I don’t even trust myself’

Khrushchev: ‘Different roads to socialism’

Space Wars: ‘Flopnik’

The Berlin Wall: ‘Berlin is the testicles of the West’

The Cuban Missile Crisis: ‘We’ll all meet together in Hell’

The Vietnam War: Unwinnable

Rebellion: 1968

Nixon: ‘Vietnamization’

China, the USA and the Soviet Union: ‘Ping-pong diplomacy’

The Decline of Détente: ‘Lennonism, not Leninism’

Afghanistan: ‘The Soviet Vietnam’

The Polish Pope and Solidarity: ‘The last nails in the coffin of communism’

The Ex-Actor: ‘Regimes planted by bayonets do not take root’

Gorbachev: ‘Mr Gorbachev, tear down this wall!’

1989: ‘Time to yield power’

The End of the Soviet Union: ‘The threat of a world war is no more’

Appendix 1: Key Players

Appendix 2: Timeline of the Cold War

Copyright

Got Another Hour?

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Introduction Introduction The End of the Second World War: Apocalypse The Beginning of the Cold War: The Freeze Three Speeches: ‘An iron curtain has descended’ The Marshall Plan: ‘Communism cannot be stopped in Europe’ Berlin: ‘You should not and cannot abandon this city and this people’ The Bomb: ‘MAD’ The Korean War: Hot War US Anti-Communism: ‘Reds Under the Bed.’ Stalin’s Final Years: ‘I’m finished, I don’t even trust myself’ Khrushchev: ‘Different roads to socialism’ Space Wars: ‘Flopnik’ The Berlin Wall: ‘Berlin is the testicles of the West’ The Cuban Missile Crisis: ‘We’ll all meet together in Hell’ The Vietnam War: Unwinnable Rebellion: 1968 Nixon: ‘Vietnamization’ China, the USA and the Soviet Union: ‘Ping-pong diplomacy’ The Decline of Détente: ‘Lennonism, not Leninism’ Afghanistan: ‘The Soviet Vietnam’ The Polish Pope and Solidarity: ‘The last nails in the coffin of communism’ The Ex-Actor: ‘Regimes planted by bayonets do not take root’ Gorbachev: ‘Mr Gorbachev, tear down this wall!’ 1989: ‘Time to yield power’ The End of the Soviet Union: ‘The threat of a world war is no more’ Appendix 1: Key Players Appendix 2: Timeline of the Cold War Copyright Got Another Hour? About the Publisher Конец ознакомительного фрагмента. Текст предоставлен ООО «ЛитРес». Прочитайте эту книгу целиком, купив полную легальную версию на ЛитРес. Безопасно оплатить книгу можно банковской картой Visa, MasterCard, Maestro, со счета мобильного телефона, с платежного терминала, в салоне МТС или Связной, через PayPal, WebMoney, Яндекс.Деньги, QIWI Кошелек, бонусными картами или другим удобным Вам способом.

From the end of the Second World War to the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991 the world lived within the shadow of the Cold War. For almost half a century the East and the West eyed each other with suspicion and often hostility. Two ideologies, two political systems, two cultures, two superpowers fought for dominance, each firm in the belief that history would prove them right. And all the time the threat of a Third World War remained a distinct possibility, the spectre of nuclear weapons a constant fear. This, in an hour, is how it happened.

The End of the Second World War: Apocalypse The End of the Second World War: Apocalypse The Beginning of the Cold War: The Freeze Three Speeches: ‘An iron curtain has descended’ The Marshall Plan: ‘Communism cannot be stopped in Europe’ Berlin: ‘You should not and cannot abandon this city and this people’ The Bomb: ‘MAD’ The Korean War: Hot War US Anti-Communism: ‘Reds Under the Bed.’ Stalin’s Final Years: ‘I’m finished, I don’t even trust myself’ Khrushchev: ‘Different roads to socialism’ Space Wars: ‘Flopnik’ The Berlin Wall: ‘Berlin is the testicles of the West’ The Cuban Missile Crisis: ‘We’ll all meet together in Hell’ The Vietnam War: Unwinnable Rebellion: 1968 Nixon: ‘Vietnamization’ China, the USA and the Soviet Union: ‘Ping-pong diplomacy’ The Decline of Détente: ‘Lennonism, not Leninism’ Afghanistan: ‘The Soviet Vietnam’ The Polish Pope and Solidarity: ‘The last nails in the coffin of communism’ The Ex-Actor: ‘Regimes planted by bayonets do not take root’ Gorbachev: ‘Mr Gorbachev, tear down this wall!’ 1989: ‘Time to yield power’ The End of the Soviet Union: ‘The threat of a world war is no more’ Appendix 1: Key Players Appendix 2: Timeline of the Cold War Copyright Got Another Hour? About the Publisher Конец ознакомительного фрагмента. Текст предоставлен ООО «ЛитРес». Прочитайте эту книгу целиком, купив полную легальную версию на ЛитРес. Безопасно оплатить книгу можно банковской картой Visa, MasterCard, Maestro, со счета мобильного телефона, с платежного терминала, в салоне МТС или Связной, через PayPal, WebMoney, Яндекс.Деньги, QIWI Кошелек, бонусными картами или другим удобным Вам способом.