Presents a study of the end of World War Two and the beginning of the Cold War and discusses the Korean and Vietnam Wars, the arms race and Detente, the Berlin Wall and Cuban Missile Crisis, Glasnost, and the end of the Cold War.
Presents a history of the tense, often combative, relations between western capitalist and eastern socialist countries during the period following World War II.
Allowing herself to be hypnotized, fifteen-year-old Kira reveals memories of another time and place that may eventually cost her and her mother their lives.
Eleven-year-old Rex and his family move to Ottawa from Vancouver in the summer of 1962 when it seems everyone is nervous about the possibility of nuclear war between America and Russia, but his thoughts about the possible end of the world take second place to the mystery creature hiding out in the local park.
