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1) The Cold War
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Series
Publisher
Benchmark Books
Pub. Date
c2005
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 9.3 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
Presents the history of the Cold War through excerpts from letters, newspaper articles, speeches, and songs dating from the period. Includes review questions.
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Series
Language
English
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Description
1,000 MILES BEHIND THE IRON CURTAIN, HE STOOD FOR FREEDOM Ronald Reagans dramatic battle to win the Cold War, revealed as never before by the #1 bestselling author and award-winning anchor of the #1 rated Special Report with Bret Baier. In his acclaimed bestseller Three Days in January, Bret Baier illuminated the extraordinary leadership of President Dwight Eisenhower at the dawn of the Cold War. Now in his highly anticipated new history, Three...
Author
Series
Hot war volume 3
Publisher
Del Rey
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
"Set in an alternate 1950s in which General MacArthur ignites a nuclear war that nearly destroys the planet. The third and final installment in the series that began with Bombs Away and continued with Fallout"--
12) The Cold War
Author
Series
Publisher
Lucent Books
Pub. Date
c2002
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 10.8 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
Discusses the origins of the Cold War and its effects on Europe, Asia, and the United States, nuclear threats, detente, and the future of the relationship between Russia and the United States.
Publisher
MPI Home Video
Pub. Date
c1974
Language
English
Description
A dramatization of the Cuban missile crisis of October 1962. Looks at the tension and decision making process President Kennedy and his staff endured trying to make a firm point about Cuba while keeping the US out of nuclear war with the Soviet Union.
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2016
Language
English
Description
Reveals the life of Noel Field, an American who betrayed his country and crushed his family. Field, once a well-meaning and privileged American, spied for Stalin during the 1930s and '40s. Then a pawn in Stalin's sinister master strategy, Field was kidnapped and tortured by the KGB and forced to testify against his own Communist comrades. But how does an Ivy League-educated, US State Department employee, deeply rooted in American culture and history,...
Author
Publisher
ISI Books
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
"Although historians are increasingly giving Reagan and John Paul II due credit for their roles in ending the Cold War, Kengor reveals the depth and significance of the bond between the president and the pope. New details based on the author's unique access to Reagan insiders and his tireless archival research are provided. The role of the Marian apparition at Fatima on May 13, 1917 is explored as key to understanding both the bond between JP II and...
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Publisher
Roaring Brook Press
Pub. Date
2021.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6.6 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
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Description
"As World War II comes to a close, the United States and the Soviet Union emerge as the two greatest world powers on extreme opposites of the political spectrum. After the United States showed its hand with the atomic bomb in Hiroshima, the Soviets refuse to be left behind. With communism sweeping the globe, the two nations begin a neck-and-neck competition to build even more destructive bombs and conquer the Space Race. In their battle for dominance,...
19) Fail-safe
Author
Publisher
Distributed by W.W. Norton
Pub. Date
1962
Language
English
Description
A malfunction in a computer defense system leads to a nuclear cataclysm between two superpowers.
In a world still reeling from the fallout of the Cuban Missile Crisis, a group of American bombers armed with a deadly payload of nuclear weapons heads towards Moscow, their motives mysterious. Suddenly, a nuclear apocalypse looms closer than it ever has and the lives of millions of people depend on the high-stakes diplomacy of leaders on both sides of...
Author
Publisher
Harper
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
Gripping narrative nonfiction that tells the dramatic story of a remarkable young Texan pianist, Van Cliburn, who played his way through the wall of fear built by the Cold War, won the hearts of the American and Russian people, and eased tensions between two superpowers on the brink of nuclear war.
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