Publisher's Synopsis
For more than forty years, the two superpowers, the United States and the Soviet Union directly threatened each other with nuclear weapons. This period of time is referred to as The Cold War. This section explores the major events of this period including; the development of the hydrogen bomb, the nuclear arms race, détente, nuclear proliferation and the nuclear world after the end of the Cold War.
In this Cold War History Book, you will discover:
- How the Soviet Union and the USA quickly went from wartime allies to enemies
- Events in East Asia - the Chinese Civil War and the Korean War
- The most dangerous event of the early Cold War years, the Cuban Missile Crisis
- The Vietnam War and its impact on the Cold War
- The shocking power of nuclear weapons - and attempts to control them
- Uprisings on the eastern side of the Iron Curtain
- The super-powers as friends? Détente, Richard Nixon, and Leonid Brezhnev
- The Soviet invasion of Afghanistan
- The rise of Ronald Reagan and his aggression in the early 1980s
- How Mikhail Gorbachev became Soviet leader
- Glasnost, Perestroika, and how the Cold War ended
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