1985-1995

Contains 1,099 entries that offer a comprehensive overview of the Cold War, discussing significant figures, important battles, economic developments, cultural events, technological developments, and major treaties and agreements. Includes seven hundred images, fifty tables and graphs, forty-seven maps, and primary source documents.

A collection of essays, mostly by U.S. foreign policy makers in the Reagan administration, examines the Reagan administration's contribution to the end of the Cold War, ten years after.

Relates the Soviet changes in attitudes, ideas, and practices that he is implementing.

Portrays in graphic form the geographical dimension of each of the world's major current or potential trouble spots.

Presents excerpts from thirty-one primary sources related to the Cold War, including Winston Churchill's "Iron Curtain" speech, testimony from the House Un-American Activities Committee hearings, and addresses by Ronald Reagan, Mikhail Gorbachev, and others, along with photos, a time line, and a further reading list.

Companion volume to the television series The global rivals. Describes the forty-year contest for supremacy between America and the Soviet Union.