cold war

This TNT-aired mini-series based on the Robert Littell novel follows the lives of three CIA operatives over the course of several years and major historical events.

An international history of the first third of the Cold War, drawing from sources which have become available since 1992 to offer Soviet, East European and Chinese, as well as American and West European perspectives on events that occurred from the beginning of the conflict through the Cuban missile crisis.

Presents the complete idiot's guide to understanding the origins and policies of the Cold War and provides information on the Cuban Missile Crisis, McCarthyism and the "Red Scare," Gorbachev's reforms, Watergate, and the fall of the Berlin War and the Soviet Union.

Examines the origins of the Cold War after World War II, major players, and debates about how this major U.S. foreign policy should be implemented.

A comprehensive A-to-Z reference that describes the various people, works of art and literature, movements and influences in American culture that significantly reflected or responded to the Cold War.

Offers a brief overview of the events surrounding the fall of the Berlin Wall which divided Germany into communist and democratic states, and discusses the impact the wall's demolition had on world history and society.

Tracks the building tension over ideology between Soviet and American superpowers in the post-war world till the early 1960s. (60 min.).

Examines the achievements of U.S. presidents who served during the Cold War, including Harry S. Truman, Dwight D. Eisenhower, John F. Kennedy, and Richard Nixon.

Examines science fiction literature and film produced in the United States from 1945 to the 1980s in an effort to discern the parallels between the genre and the Cold War.

Discusses the true cost of America's victory in the Cold War against the Soviet Union, arguing that the U.S. not only expended money on warheads, foreign aid, soldiers, propaganda, and intelligence, it also paid the price in wasted time and talent in industry, science, education, trade, and the loss of public confidence.