cold war

Following World War II, Europe was divided in half: the democratic West, protected largely by the United States, and the communist East, controlled by the Soviet Union. In the decades that followed, the U.S. and Russia would compete for superiority in a conflict that came to be known as the Cold War. Explore the nuclear arms race, the conflicts in Korea and Vietnam, and the space race through first-hand accounts.

"Learn the true stories of the Cold War and how spies used listening devices in live cats and wristwatch cameras..."--Back cover.

In 1945 Istanbul, American undercover agent Leon Bauer's attempt to save a life leads to a desperate manhunt, a game of shifting loyalties, and an unexpected love affair.

"Follows a small boy and his family as they try to reunite with his father after the Berlin Wall is built"--OCLC.

Discusses the collapse of the Soviet Union and the transfomation of Russia into a modern, highly literate, urban society through the life stories of the country's baby boomer generation, using interviews from men and women who graduated from high school in 1967 from two magnet secondary schools that offered intensive instruction in English.

Discusses the Cold War between the United States and the Soviet Union and the tensions between John F. Kennedy and Nikita Khrushchev.

Provides an account of the 1960 Summer Olympics in Rome, looking at the accomplishments of athletes from that contest whose names live on in history, and examining the games as a reflection of changes in politics and culture going on around the world, most notably the Cold War.