1945-

Discusses how terrorism has become more common, more dangerous, and more international over the past few decades. Examines U.S. policy and responses towards terrorist acts, profiles specific terrorist groups, and offers strategies for combatting the violence.

Discusses the social, economic, and political impact of the Cold War.

Describes what happened to the survivors, perpetrators, and bystanders of the Holocaust after the death camps were liberated by the Allies, and provides photos, a time line, a glossary, a further reading list, and information on Holocaust museums in the U.S.

Discusses the principal causes and events of the Cold War, the period between 1945 to 1991 when the United States and the Soviet Union kept each other in check through mutual fear and distrust, and considers what the outcome might have been had different decisions been made at crucial points during this time.

Presents a history of the tense, often combative, relations between Soviet Russia and the United States from the end of World War II to the fall of communism in 1989.

Explores the decade of the 1950s worldwide, discussing such topics as the war in Korea, Joe McCarthy, the Soviet power struggle, civil rights activities, and Castro in Cuba.

Discusses the culture and historical events of the 1950s, covering the media, leisure, and such incidents as the Korean War, civil rights, the Hungarian uprising, and the polio vaccine.

Focuses on Soviet politics in the period between the end of World War II and the collapse of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR), known as the Cold War.

Traces four hundred years of Jewish history from the seventeenth to the twenty-first century, and discusses the anti-Semitism facing European Jews, the Jews of czarist Russia, their struggle for civil rights in the 1830s and 1840s, Jewish life in America, the effects of World War One and the Holocaust of World War Two, and much more.

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.