Levering, Ralph B.
The Cold War: A Post-Cold War History
- Thoroughly updated in light of new scholarship, including revised sections on President Nixon's policies in Vietnam and President Reagan's approach to U.S.-Soviet relations
- Features six all new counterparts sections that juxtapose important historical figures to illustrate the contrasting viewpoints that characterized the Cold War
- Argues that the success of Western capitalism during the Cold War laid the groundwork for the economic globalization and political democratization that have defined the 21stcentury
- Includes extended coverage of the Cuban Missile Crisis, the most dangerous confrontation of the nuclear age thus far
Keywords: USSR; FDR; Roosevelt; World War II; communism; capitalism; economic globalization; political democratization; Joseph Stalin; domestic policy; foreign relations; containment; East-West relations; George Kennan; Vladmir Novikov; J. William Fulbright; Barry Goldwater; the Cuban Missile Crisis; the Bay of Pigs; Vietnam; Daniel Ellsberg; Henry Kissinger; Reagan; Nixon; Truman; Jeane Kirkpatrick; Christopher Dodd; Carter; Mikhail Gorbachev; communist-bloc; nationalism; political ideology; Marxism; JFK; LBJ; glasnost; Berlin; Berlin Wall; Mao Zedong; Chou En-Lai; Chiang Kai-shek; Suez Canal crisis; Six-day War
- Author(s)
- Levering, Ralph B.
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons, Inc.
- Publication year
- 2016
- Language
- en
- Edition
- 3
- Series
- The American History Series
- Page amount
- 288 pages
- Category
- History
- Format
- Ebook
- eISBN (ePUB)
- 9781118848449
- Printed ISBN
- 9781118848401