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Cold war, on the brink of apocalypse, David S. Painter

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Cold war, on the brink of apocalypse, David S. Painter

Language

eng

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Course guide Includes bibliographical references

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lectures speeches

Main title

Cold war

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Oclc number

62769577

Responsibility statement

David S. Painter

Series statement

The Modern scholar

Sub title

on the brink of apocalypse

Summary

Georgetown University professor David S. Painter delivers fourteen lectures on the Cold War, which was born out of a fragile relationship between the two superpowers that were left following the Second World War. For the ensuing forty-five years, the United States and the Soviet Union, with opposing ideologies, would vie for supremacy in world politics

Table Of Contents

lecture 1. Hiroshima and the origins of the Cold War -- lecture 2. The superpowers and the world in 1945 -- lecture 3. The struggle for Europe -- lecture 4. Globalizing the Cold War -- lecture 5. The Korean War and changing power balances -- lecture 6. Turmoil in the third world -- lecture 7. The Cuban missile crisis -- lecture 8. The turbulent 1960s -- lecture 9. Origins of détente -- lecture 10. Revolution in the third world and the end of détente -- lecture 11. The arms race and the breakdown of détente -- lecture 12. The Reagan offensive -- lecture 13. Gorbachev and the end of the Cold War -- lecture 14. Understanding the Cold War

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