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Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Contents -- Introduction -- USSR and Europe -- The United States and The USSR -- Mutually Assured Destruction -- The Space Race -- The Korean War -- The Domino Theory -- The Berlin Wall -- The Cuban Missile Crisis -- Espionage -- War in Vietnam -- Defeat in Vietnam -- US Backyard -- Moon Landing -- Nixon and China -- Détente -- End of Détente -- The Second Cold War -- Perestroika and Glasnost -- End of the Cold War -- Timeline -- Glossary -- Further Information -- Index -- Back Cover

To deal with the development of Cold War history means to summarize a part of international debates. Nevertheless, the (West) German approach originally had much to do with Allied responsibility of the German question, meaning partition in two states and the possibilities of re-unification. This meant that Cold War history in most cases placed the German question in the centre of research. Only since the 1970s a broader approach not only to European and transatlantic aspects emerged, but also to the inclusion of a world wide view. This was accompanied by the reception and advancement of international methodological debates. Adapted from the source document.

Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Foreword -- Introduction: The Faces of Cold Cases -- Chapter 1: Why Open a Cold Case? -- Chapter 2: DNA and Cold Cases -- Chapter 3: A Wealth of Other Tools -- Chapter 4: Heating Up a Cold Case -- Chapter 5: Investigating the Investigation -- Notes -- Glossary -- For More Information -- Index -- Picture Credits -- About the Author -- Back Cover

The Cold War dominated international relations in the second half of the 20th century in an all-embracing ideological and military conflict between communism and democracy. This survey shows the Cold War as the consequence of the breakdown of the existing international system during the two world wars and a new great power alignment which emerged to fill the vacuum created in both Europe and Asia as existing states and imperial powers lost their former predominance. The text draws on recent scholarship on the Cold War, based not only upon materials from US, British, Canadian, Australian a