Cold War Reference Guide

Richard Alan Schwartz is a professor at Florida International University in Miami.

“a useful compendium”—Library Journal; “informative...a concise and clearly written narrative of the issues that fueled the Cold War and that brought about its end.... Recommended for public, college, university, and private reference collections”—ARBA; “thorough...detailed...clearly written”—School Library Journal; “comprehensive and accurate background information”—Reference & User Services Quarterly.

• Table of ContentsPreface      Abbreviations      SECTION I: A GENERAL HISTORY OF THE COLD1. Overview      2. The Pre-Cold War (1945–47)      3. Containment (1947–54)      4. Massive Retaliation, Second Strike, and Flexible Response (1954–69)      5. Mutually Assured Destruction and Détente (1969–79)      6. Winnable Nuclear War, the Evil Empire, and the Collapse of Communism (1980–90)      7. The Aftermath of the Cold War      SECTION II: HIGHLIGHTS OF THE COLD8. The Bomb      9. McCarthyism and the Red Scare      10. The Korean War      11. The Second Berlin Crisis      12. The Cuban Missile Crisis      13. The Vietnam War and Protest      14. Covert Operations: The CIA and the FBI      SECTION III: CHRONOLOGIESAn Annotated Chronology of Important Cold War Events      A Chronology of Superpower and Allied Leadership      U.S. Presidential Administrations and Soviet Leadership      Leaders of the Western Allies      Leaders of the Soviet Union and the People's Republic of China      SECTION IV: PROMINENT COLD WAR FIGURESBiographies of U.S. Political Figures      Biographies of Superpower Leaders      Selected Bibliography      Index