Bryan-Jones, C: Understand The Cold War: Teach Yourself de Carole Bryan-Jones

Understand the Cold War provides a fascinating insight into this complicated and hidden conflict, from how it began and the main figures involved to the culture it created.

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01: The origins of the cold war
- : Definition of the term
- : The great powers
- : Conflicting ideologies Communism and Capitalism
- : Background to their relationship prior to the Second World War
- : Uneasy wartime allies
- : Conflicting aims as the Second World War nears its end
02: Europe at the end of the Second World War
- : Yalta
- : Potsdam
- : Increasing tension between the Big Three
- : The Iron Curtain descends
03: Containment
- : Soviet expansion in Eastern Europe
- : The Greek Civil War
- : Tito’s stand against Stalin in 1948
- : The Truman Doctrine
- : The Marshall Plan
04: Germany
- : Effects of the Second World War
- : Nuremberg Trials
- : Berlin Blockade and Airlift how the West kept its toehold behind the iron curtain
- : NATO & Warsaw Pact
05: The Far East
- : China 1949-50
- : The Korean War and Malay emergency
- : The Domino Theory
06: The Thaw
- : Détente in the 1950s
- : Changes in the USSR – Khrushchev and de Stalinisation
- : Hungarian uprising – Why didn’t the West implement the Roll Back theory?
07: The Arms and Space Race
- : Nuclear arms race – 1960
- : The Space Race – Sputnik and Flopnik
- : Gary Powers and the U2 incident
- : Failure of the Paris Summit
- : Berlin Crisis – the wall and stand off at checkpoint Charlie
- : Ostpolitik
08: Kennedy and Khrushchev
- : The Cuban Missile Crisis:- Castro v. Batista
- : Bay of Pigs
- : U2 sighting of missile sites on Cuba
- : ExComm – 2 weeks debate between hawks and doves
- : A Win-Win outcome
09: A new Domino
- : Tension in the Far East
- : The Sino-Soviet Split
- : Vietnam
- : The Asian grasshopper rids itself of the French elephant
- : American and Vietcong tactics
- : The Tet offensive
- : The Television War
- : Anti-Vietnam Protests – what are we fighting for?
- : Vietnamization
10: Czechoslovakia
- : Prague Spring
- : Effects on the Cold War
- : The Brezhnev Doctrine
11: Détente 1971-79
- : Motives for Détente USSR/USA
- : Motives for Détente USA/ China
- : SALT Talks 1972
- : Failure of Détente
- : The War in Afghanistan
12: The Second Cold War
- : Ronald Reagan – a change of policy
- : Star Wars – a new arms race?
- : Poland 1980-90 Solidarity movement
13: Changes in the USSR
- : Mikhail Gorbachev
- : Perestroika
- : Glasnost
- : Détente –‘We can do business together’ (M. Thatcher)
14: The collapse of Soviet influence in Eastern Europe
- : East Germany 1989-90
- : Czechoslovakia 1989 The Velvet Revolution
- : Hungary 1988-90
- : Romania 1989
- : Bulgaria
15: Cold War Culture
- : Spies
- : Double agents
- : Monetary reward
- : Unwitting accomplices
- : Literature
- : Anti-Russian literature
- : Films
- : Spy movies
- : James Bond movies
16: The end of the Cold War
- : The Failed Russian Coup in 1991 – the Rise of Boris Yeltsin
- : Yugoslavia – Tito’s time bomb explodes
- : Who was responsible for the Cold War? The historical debate
- : Was it all inevitable?
- : Who won?
- : Significance of the Cold War

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