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The Cold War: (History at Source)

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About the Book

This series provides collections of historical sources for studying topics in A-level and Higher Grade History. Each section contains a short introduction setting the sources in context. In addition to a wide variety of sources and source types, each title includes appropriate examination-style questions and extensive student guidance sections. These offer practical advice of answering source-based and essay questions, together with a selection of essay titles and essay plans. A specimen essay answer and source-based exercise answer are also included, along with a short bibliography. It provides coverage of the events and themes which characterized the Cold War between 1945 and 1990. As well as looking at the tensions and crisis points within relations between the USA and the USSR, it also looks at the Sino-Soviet dispute, the Vietnam War and the way in which the Cold War has been presented through propaganda.

Table of Contents:
Approaching source-based questions; the situation in post-war Germany 1945-46; the Atomic bomb; the Truman doctrine and the Marshall Plan 1947; the crisis over Berlin 1948-49; origins of the Korean War; the United Nations and the Korean War; the crises of 1956; the Berlin Wall; the Cuban missiles crisis, 1962; the war in Vietnam; the Sino-Soviet dispute; the Cold War triangle; detente and disarmament; Brezhnev to Gorbachev; the end of the Cold War; propaganda presentation of the Cold War; dealing with examination questions.

About the Author :
Ed Rayner is an experienced author of history textbooks, and Michael Lynch and John Laver have edited and written many of the Access to History titles, as well as editing all in the History at Source series.

Review :
Well-conceived and deserve to be widely-used... they familiarise the student with the main lines of current historical debate. -- History Review The books raise interesting general ideas and provide a good balance between breadth and depth on every topic covered. -- Education Review


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9780340565452
  • Publisher: Hachette Learning
  • Publisher Imprint: Hodder Murray
  • Edition: Revised edition
  • Series Title: History at Source
  • Weight: 221 gr
  • ISBN-10: 0340565454
  • Publisher Date: 30 Jul 1992
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Height: 233 mm
  • Spine Width: 7 mm
  • Width: 157 mm


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