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Presents reference tools on the Cold War, including overviews of fifteen aspects of the era, thirty-one primary sources including speeches by John F. Kennedy, Nikita Khrushchev, Ronald Reagan, and others, fifty biographies, a time line, a glossary, a bibliography, activities, research ideas, and a cumulative index.

Presents overviews of eight aspects of the Cold War, including the Cuban Missile Crisis, American unrest in the 1960s, and the arms race in the 1980s, and includes a time line, a glossary, a "people to know" list, and research and activity ideas.

These lively and engaging PowerPoint? presentations (on DVD) help teachers walk students step by step through the process of analyzing and interpreting photographs, posters, political cartoons, period illustrations, and other types of visual primary sources. Each presentation also comes with extra primary source images (included on the same CD as the PowerPoint?) for students to analyze on their own.

A history of the Cold War, focusing on the major conflicts of the era, including the wars in Korea and Vietnam, and highlighting significant people and locations in all areas of the hostilities.

A history of the Cold War, focusing on the final years of the Communist regime in the Soviet Union, beginning with the replacement of Nikita Khruschev by Leonid Brezhnev, and highlighting significant people, places, and events on both sides of the hostilities.

This docudrama looks at Joseph Stalin, the leader of the Soviet Union, and his encounters with the Nazis, Churchill and Roosevelt and their impact on World War II. Includes documentary footage, dramatic reconstruction and interviews.

The Cold War was a time of ultimate technological military and political competition between the United States and the Soviet Union. Proxy wars were fought between countries supported by one of the two superpowers of the United States or the Soviet Union. The United States and Soviet Union put their powers to the test in the arms race and the space race. This book describes how the landscape of war was forever changed as these formidable forces pursued political power through technology and weapons.

"The true story of two spies and their families on opposite sides of the Cold War, told from the first-person perspective of Eva Dillon, the daughter of one of these spies. With impeccable insider access to both families as well as CIA officers, Dillon offers a ... true-life spy thriller told in the tradition of a family memoir"--Provided by publisher.

Provides access to all the information in the entire Cold War series. Combines all the entries found in each individual book's index for volumes 1 to 4 as well as resources, a time line and synopses of the four companion CNN Cold War videos.

"Studies in international security and arms control." Story of the Sino-Soviet alliance and the origins of the Korean War.