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The cold war is the term used to define the period between the end of world war ii in 1945 and the ultimate collapse of the soviet union and its satellite states in 1991. The actions and motives of the main participants in these events, ronald reagan, mikhail gorbachev. In his book, bacevich also argues that victory in the cold war changed the way americans think about the presidency. National security agency releases history of cold war. The period occurred between 1947, the year of the truman doctrine.

National security archive electronic briefing book no. The historian chronicles how gorbachev pulled the world back from. Latin american relations during the cold war latin. It was waged on political, economic, and propaganda fronts and had only limited recourse to weapons. The end of the cold war by robert service showcases the final six years or so of the cold war 19851991. The cold war was a geopolitical chess match between the united states, the soviet union, and both parties allies in which the major power players sought to project their respective ideologies across the globe in the wake of colonialisms collapse following world war two.

Both superpowers engaged in a variety of contests against each other, including military brinkmanship and proxy wars in smaller countries to spread their ideologies. International relations, and the cold war period 939 words 4 pages. The cold war was a period of geopolitical tension between the soviet union and the united states and their respective allies, the eastern bloc and the western bloc, after world war ii. Foreign intervention in africa after the cold war looks.

Welcome to the making of a nation american history in voa special english. The korean war, the taiwan strait crises, and the vietnam warall of which involved china as a central actorrepresented the only major hot conflicts during the cold war period, making east asia the main battlefield of the cold war, while creating conditions to prevent the two superpowers from engaging in a direct military showdown. Novelist and documentarian brown ring force delivers a vivid revisionist history of the cold war, redefining the period from the end of wwii to the fall of the berlin wall as a compendium of. The cold war period of 19851991 began with the rise of mikhail gorbachev as general secretary of the communist party of the soviet union. But just four years later, the berlin wall was dismantled and perestroika. End of the cold war books listed in alphabetical order the books below provide insights to understanding the events that led to the escalation of the second cold war during the 1980s and thereafter to the end of the cold war. An analysis cold war should be considered as one of the most important events that stirred the global political world and it should be considered as an event the end of which reshaped the socioeconomic and political structure of myriads of nations across the globe. Cold war, the open yet restricted rivalry that developed after world war ii between the united states and the soviet union and their respective allies.

This wellresearched, insightful volume shines a bright light on how mexico navigated the mid to late decades of the cold war roughly 1959 through the mid1980s. A riveting account of how the cold war came to an end by one of our leading historians. A history from beginning to end kindle edition by history, hourly. However, the book does emphasize the importance of gorbachev and his reformist colleagues in initiating reform in the ussr and bringing the cold war to a peaceful end. Most people think of the cold war as the period between the end of world war ii and the demise of the soviet union in 1991. In fact, though, his previous 500 pages provide a robust answer. The cold war emerges as a distinct period in twentiethcentury history, yet one that should be evaluated within the broader context of global political, economic, social, and cultural developments. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading cold war. The end of the cold war 19851991 audiobook by robert. The cold war had seemed like a permanent fixture in global. The end of the cold war 19851991, by robert service book. Elegantly written for the general reader, it is an essential introduction. I hope readers who lived through the cold war will also find the volume useful, because as marx once said groucho, not karl, outside of a dog, a book is a mans best friend. The period is generally considered to span the 1947 truman doctrine to.

The united states has emerged into the new period with what is still the largest economy in the world with the fewest economic problems of the three pillars of the postcold war world. Foreign intervention in africa after the cold war looks at new players and old powers in africas conflicts author elizabeth schmidt tackles important questions on foreign intervention in. The cold war, or at least the british end of it, exposed as amateurish. John lewis gaddis shelved 8 times as coldwar history. But it has emerged far more mature and cautious than it entered the period. The cold war was a particular period, fraught with particular fears, the most.

Popular cold war history books showing 150 of 1,121 the cold war. The cold war was a period of heightened military and political tensions between the united states and its allies on one side and the soviet union and its allies on the other. Ukraine gained its independence in 1991, when the soviet union was dissolved and former soviet republics became sovereign states. The book examines the entirety of the cold war era, presenting documents from the end of world war ii right up to the collapse of the soviet union in 1991.

The legend of gus weiss, hero of the cold war, ends 11 stories below the balcony of his condo at the watergate complex in washington, dc, on november. In many ways, the cold war began even before the guns fell silent in germany and in the pacific in 1945. Service is the author of twelve books, including spies and commissars. Renata keller also explores cold war interamerican relations in her book mexicos cold war. Realism and liberalism are the two main theoretical perspectives in international relations, and both theories provide well developed explanations of the dynamics of the international system on the world stage. Richard nixon was the united sate president for the period between1969 to 1974. Choices to end the cold war and create a global commonwealth zelikow, philip, rice, condoleezza on. It has also emerged with the greatest military power. Less than a year later, the communists launched a bold attack on their noncommunist neighbors in south korea, and they appeared poised to extend their empire even further. This is an extremely valuable book for anyone interested in this period of time and i highly recommend it, although i also wish it covered a bit more of the secondary details that are glossed over. Today, we tell about the period known as the cold war.

Download it once and read it on your kindle device, pc, phones or tablets. In designating this period as the endgame, the contributors to this volume do not mean to imply that the precise nature of the cold wars end was foreordained. A new history is meant chiefly, therefore, for a new generation of readers for whom the cold war was never current events. The second half of the book looks at the postsoviet period when the initial euphoria over the end of communism gave way to growing unease both inside and outside russia.

Then he takes this panoramic view throughout the big players of europe and the soviet satellite countries. The reorientation of soviet foreign policy under mikhail gorbachev caused the eastwest reconciliation, and attempts of the explanation of this fact led to the scholars challenge. Postwar politics and the cold war ap us history study. Andrew bacevichs age of illusions argues the cold war. National security agency releases history of cold war intelligence activities. In the end you feel the only truth is trust no one. The us foreign policy towards the soviet union had begun changing after the vietnam war of 1973. Gorbachev was a revolutionary leader for the ussr, as he was the first to promote liberalization of the political landscape and capitalist elements into the economy perestroika.

The end of the cold war by robert service pan macmillan. The cold war by john lewis gaddis an admirably lucid and comprehensive account of the nucleararmed standoff its origins and causes, its end and what happened in between. Goodreads helps you keep track of books you want to read. The period is generally considered to span the 1947 truman doctrine to the 1991 dissolution of the soviet union. During his administration, he implemented foreign policies that would facilitate the end of cold war.

Because of the importance of the cold war in latin america and its impact on the totality of political, economic, social, and cultural developments, it may be possible to argue that essentially any book written about latin america from the end of world war ii to the late 1980s might be considered cold war history. Soviet strategic forces went on alert three times during septemberoctober 1962 because of apprehension over cuban situation, top secret codeword history of national security agency shows. With his latest book, a wise and observant history titled simply the cold war, westad aims to bring this global view of the conflict to a wider audience. The peaceful end of the cold war essay international relations theory never had such a controversial and inconsistent issue like the end of the cold war. The beginning of the end of the cold war is said to be in 1989, with the fall of the berlin wall, or in 1991 when the soviet union collapsed, with many american conservatives claiming this marked a victory for the west and the united states in particular. Cuba, the united states, and the legacy of the mexican revolution. The protatgonists in the cold war were the west, led by the united states, and the eastern bloc, led by the soviet union. Emerging as the worlds sole superpower at the end of the cold war. This anthology covers an era of international intrigue and domestic turmoil as america faced not only a nuclear arms race with the soviet union, but war in southeast asia and race riots at home. Since that time ukraine started its own policy, with the ukrainian point of view on history, international relations, and politics differing greatly from the russian perspective.

Postcold war era is the period after the end of the cold war. The oral history and analysis that follows amply demonstrate that decision makers did not know how the cold war would end, and in particular that it would end so swiftly and peacefully. The peace achieved at the end of world war ii quickly gave way to a tense standoff between the democratic west and the communist east. Services magisterial book shows how gorbachev achieved the. Top 10 books about the cold war books the guardian. Postcold war era news newspapers books scholar jstor december 20 learn how and when to remove this template message. Soviet relations for decades and resurfaced as soon as the alliance against adolf hitler was no longer necessary.

Much of the first part of the book covers how we got to mikhail gorbachev in the ussr and the cold war broadly. What was notable was that in the 20th century the superpowers forebore actually coming to blows cold war is a term denoting the period between 1945, when the us and uk governments decided that the hostility of the ussr to the west was the fundamental factor in international affairs, and 1991, when the end of the ussr signified the victory of the us and its. It was filmed in 1969, during the brief stardom of christopher jones. Book sees cold war as a much longer, wider clash harvard. Russian foreign policy and the end of the cold war mike. Cold war america and the disillusioning of a generation paperback by. I think the cold war started in the late 19th century as an ideological conflict between capitalism and socialism. What makes services book special is its scholarship. In november of that year, the berlin wall the most visible symbol of the decadeslong cold warwas finally destroyed, just over two years after reagan had challenged the soviet premier in a. Soviet perspective on the cold war and american foreign policy. The oxford handbook of the cold war offers a broad reassessment of the cold war period based on new conceptual frameworks developed in the field of international history. The updated edition covers the postcold war period too. By the end of the 1940s cold war tensions between the united states and the soviet union dominated foreign policy and domestic politics. Yet you argue that it really began decades earlier.