Table of Contents

A Failed Peace The Iron Curtain The Truman Doctrine, Marshall Plan, NATO The Berlin Airlift China and De-Colonization McCarthyism Korea: The Cold War Becomes a Military Struggle Why The War Never Became Hot: The Bomb Explosions in Europe: Poland & the GDR Uprising Explosions in Europe: The Hungarian Uprising Secret Services: East Secret Services: West Missiles, Sputnik, and the H-Bomb Cuba: Bay of Pigs The Berlin Wall Cuban Missile Crisis Vietnam The Prague Spring Detente: The Peak of Soviet Power Afghanistan Dissidents Poland President Reagan's Offensive Living with the Bomb Gorbachev: A Man to Do Business With The Wall Comes Down Revolutions in Eastern Europe Fall of the Soviet Union.

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Written by a leading American defence analyst, Dr Norman Friedman, The Compact Guide: The Cold War is supplemented with 60 photographs and documents that allow the reader to witness the events as they unfolded.

About the Author

Dr Norman Friedman is an American defence analyst and former Deputy Director of National Security Studies of the Hudson Institute, from 1973-1984. Dr. Friedman has published 29 books, including a history of the Cold War, The Fifty-Year War: Conflict and Strategy in the Cold War, which won the 2001 Westminster Prize for the best English-language military book of 2000, awarded by the Royal United Services Institute.