Palgrave Concise Historical Atlas Of The Cold War

Description:
The Cold War, its origins, course and conclusion can be a difficult subject to understand. It affected the lives of every person in the world, often in ways they never understood. It was a worldwide crisis extending over decades. Maps are not only useful, they are indeed vital in gaining an understanding of the geopolitics of the Cold War. With fifty maps, each with explanatory text, A Concise Historical Atlas of the Cold War covers the key events, crises and developments, such as: * The Grand Alliance in World War II * The Cuban Missile Crisis * The Non-Aligned Movement * The Arms Race * The Break-up of the USSR * The Surviving Communist World But there is more - cultural, social and economic consequences of the Cold War are introduced. As a classroom tool, a useful reference work and an accessible study for general readers, the book is indispensable.

Table of Contents:
Preface PART 1: THE ORIGINS OF THE COLD WAR The Russian Revolution and the World The Comintern and the Red Scare in the West in the 1920s Chaos and Communism in China, 1918-1939 Foreign Policy under Stalin The Grand Alliance in World War II The Zonal Division of Germany The End of the War Against Japan Eastern Europe 1944-1949 PART 2: THE HEIGHT OF THE COLD WAR The Truman Doctrine Marshall Aid The Berlin Blockade The Chinese Communist Victory NATO and the Warsaw Pact Other Regional Security Pacts The Malayan Emergency Korea: Partition and War Korea: The UN Intervenes Budapest, 1956 Eisenhower and Central America The Two Chinas The Cultural Revolution Cuba: Castro's Revolution and the Bay of Pigs The Cuban Missile Crisis The Sino-Soviet Split The Berlin Wall Culture and the Cold War Capitalism v. Communism in the 1960s The Peace Corps Southeast Asia: Partition and War Southeast Asia; American Intervention Southeast Asia: The Fall of the South The Non-Aligned Movement The Prague Spring Intelligence Gathering The Middle East Wars and the Threat to World Peace Detente in the 1970s The Arms Race Arms Sales and Military Assistance Nuclear Proliferation Capitalism v. Communism in the 1980s Nicaragua and the Sadanistas The Cold War in Africa The Soviet Invasion of Afghanistan The Early Reagan Years - Renewed Cold War PART 3: THE END OF THE COLD WAR AND AFTER Gorbachev's Reforms The Fall of Communism in Eastern Europe The Break-up of the USSR The Legacy of the Cold War: Yugoslavia The Legacy of the Cold War: Russia The Surviving Communist World Select Bibliography

Author Biography:
DR. JOHN SWIFT is a lecturer at St. Martin's College, Lancaster, and also an honorary research fellow at Lancaster University History Department. He is the author of Labour in Crisis: Clement Attlee and the Labour Party in Opposition, 1931-34 and Peter the Great.