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Title Page
About History in an Hour
Contents
Introduction
The End of the Second World War: Apocalypse
The Beginning of the Cold War: The Freeze
Three Speeches: ‘An iron curtain has descended’
The Marshall Plan: ‘Communism cannot be stopped in Europe’
Berlin: ‘You should not and cannot abandon this city and this people’
The Bomb: ‘MAD’
The Korean War: Hot War
US Anti-Communism: ‘Reds Under the Bed.’
Stalin’s Final Years: ‘I’m finished, I don’t even trust myself’
Khrushchev: ‘Different roads to socialism’
Space Wars: ‘Flopnik’
The Berlin Wall: ‘Berlin is the testicles of the West’
The Cuban Missile Crisis: ‘We’ll all meet together in Hell’
The Vietnam War: Unwinnable
Rebellion: 1968
Nixon: ‘Vietnamization’
China, the USA and the Soviet Union: ‘Ping-pong diplomacy’
The Decline of Détente: ‘Lennonism, not Leninism’
Afghanistan: ‘The Soviet Vietnam’
The Polish Pope and Solidarity: ‘The last nails in the coffin of communism’
The Ex-Actor: ‘Regimes planted by bayonets do not take root’
Gorbachev: ‘Mr Gorbachev, tear down this wall!’
1989: ‘Time to yield power’
The End of the Soviet Union: ‘The threat of a world war is no more’
Appendix 1: Key Players
Appendix 2: Timeline of the Cold War
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