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Examines the history of the Berlin Wall and how it reflected the realities of life in a politically divided city.

Examines American and Russian political relations between World War II and the aftermath of the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks on the U.S., covering such topics as the Truman Doctrine, the Korean War, the Suez Crisis, the Vietnam War, and the Chechnya rebellion.

Traces the rapid fall of imperialism and the rise of new nations. Follows the intensifying Cold War and its flashpoints in Berlin, Korea, Cuba, and Vietnam. Highlights the growing power of the civil rights movement, feminism and the Youth Explosion.

A cumulative index covering all of the documents presented between 1972 and 1995 in the twenty-four volumes of "Historic Documents.".

A collection of forty significant speeches from 1945 to the present from political leaders around the world, including Winston Churchill, Nikita Khrushchev, Ronald Reagan, John Kennedy, Charles de Gaulle, and Barack Obama.

Covers the long ideological conflict between the communist world and the Western democracies from the end of World War II to the collapse of communism in Europe in 1990.

A comprehensive A-to-Z reference to the nearly 50 years of the Cold War era, covering the political, military, and economic aspects of the struggle.