Rupert Colley

The Cold War: History in an Hour

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Love history? Know your stuff with History in an Hour.
From the end of World War Two to the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991, Russia and America eyed each other with suspicion and hostility as the world lived in the shadow of the Cold War. As post-war Europe was rebuilt, Churchill, Roosevelt and Stalin struggled to maintain peace among the former Eastern and Western Allies. Two ideologies, two political systems, two cultures, two superpowers became entrenched in a fight for dominance, each firm in the belief that history would prove them right.
The Cold War: History in an Hour is the concise account of the political tensions that arose as the world rebuilt after World War Two — an era beset by the constant fear of nuclear weapons and the looming threat of a Third World War.
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101 printed pages
Publication year
2011
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    But about 130 people lost their lives in trying to escape to freedom.
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    border dispute at the wall on 27 October resulted in Soviet and US tanks facing each other ‘nose to nose’ at Checkpoint Charlie. With instructions coming in from Washington and Moscow, the tanks waited on high alert, ready to open fire if necessary. Finally, after a sixteen-hour stand-off, the first Soviet tank withdrew five yards
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    Every Soviet citizen lived under the cloud of possible arrest and subsequent deportation or execution.

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