The Cold War

By Earle Rice Jr.

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• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1560066342
• ISBN13: 9781560066347
• Release Date: March 2000
• Publisher: Lucent Books
• Length: 112 Pages
• Weight: 0.69 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.3" x 9.3"
• Age Range: 4 to 12 years
• Grade Range: Grades 6 to 7

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Some people believed the Cold War started in 1917 while others thought it began in 1945 after the Yalta Conference between Roosevelt, Churchill, and Stalin. It went through the Korean War (1950-53), the Cuban missile crisis in 1962, the Vietnam war followed by a detente during which the Soviet Union and the USA negotiated arms-control. It turned cold again when the Soviet Union invaded Afghanistan in 1979 and finally ended in 1989 with the fall of the Berlin wall and the eventual collapse of the Soviet Union.The causes of the collapse are multiple and include: the arms race, the meltdown of the Soviet economy, the rise of ethnic nationalism in the Soviet Union, and governmental reforms (perestoika and glasnost). But in the end, it was the "insane" arms-race, which led to fiscal insolvency and collapse of the Soviet Union.This is a short (105 pages) summary of the Cold War intended for readers who are interested in understanding the basics of the problem.