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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

Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Contents -- Cold Cases -- Chapter 1: When Cases Go Cold -- Chapter 2: The Forensic Toolbox -- Chapter 3: Take a Second Look -- Chapter 4: The Importance of DNA -- Chapter 5: Rewriting History -- Glossary -- For More Information -- Index -- Back Cover

"Examines the Cold War and its impact on America, the Soviet Union, and the world. Features include narrative overviews of key events and trends, 100+ primary source documents, chronology, glossary, bibliography, and subject index""--Provided by publisher

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