The Cold War

In: A step into history

Abstract

Bloody birth of a new state -- The United States responds -- Strange bedfellows -- Birth of the Cold War -- The Iron Curtain falls -- Containing communism -- The Berlin Blockade -- One for all against the Soviets -- Mao's moment -- The Cold War turns "hot" - Korea -- Cold War spies -- A dictator dies -- The red scare -- Satellites in the skies -- Khrushchev in America -- Cuba goes communist -- The Berlin Wall -- The race for space -- A crisis in Cuba -- Living with the bomb -- The Vietnam War -- Nixon in China -- Limiting nuclear weapons -- The Sports War -- Reagan's Star Wars -- A new day in Russia -- The fall of the Wall -- End of the Soviet Union -- A new world order -- A second Cold War? -- Glossary -- The central players -- Timeline