Table of Contents
Prologue 6
Maps 10
Chapter 1 The Bloody Birth Of The Soviet Union 12
Chapter 2 The United States Responds 18
Chapter 3 Strange Bedfellows 20
Chapter 4 The Cold War Begins 24
Chapter 5 The Iron Curtain Comes Down 28
Chapter 6 Containing Communism 32
Chapter 7 The Berlin Airlift 36
Chapter 8 The Birth Of Nato 40
Chapter 9 Communist Victory In China 44
Chapter 10 The Cold War Turns Hot In Korea 48
Chapter 11 Cold War Spies 52
Chapter 12 The Death Of Stalin 56
Chapter 13 The Red Scare 60
Chapter 14 The Space Race Begins 64
Chapter 15 Khrushchev In America 68
Chapter 16 Cuba Goes Communist 72
Chapter 17 The Berlin Wall 76
Chapter 18 Aiming For The Moon 80
Chapter 19 The Cuban Missile Crisis 84
Chapter 20 Living With The Bomb 88
Chapter 21 The War In Vietnam 92
Chapter 22 Nixon Goes To China 96
Chapter 23 Limiting Nuclear Weapons 100
Chapter 24 The Cold War And The Olympics 104
Chapter 25 Reagan And Star Wars 108
Chapter 26 A New Day In Russia 112
Chapter 27 The Berlin Wall Comes Down 116
Chapter 28 The Soviet Union Collapses 120
Chapter 29 A New World Order 124
Chapter 30 A New Cold War? 128
Nato And The Warsaw Pact 132
Key Players 134
Cold War Timeline 136
Glossary 140
Find Out More 142
Index 143
About The Author 144
