From Kites To Cold War

Author : Tyler W Morton
Publisher : Naval Institute Press
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2019-10-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781682474815

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From Kites to Cold War by Tyler W Morton Pdf

From Kites to Cold War tells the story of the evolution of manned airborne reconnaissance. Long a desire of military commanders, the ability to see the terrain ahead and gain foreknowledge of enemy intent was realized when Chinese airmen mounted kites to surveil their surroundings. Kite technology was slow to spread, and by the late nineteenth century European nations had developed the balloon and airship to conduct this mission. By 1918, it was obvious that the airplane had become the reconnaissance platform of the future. Used successfully by many nations during the Great War, aircraft technology and capability experienced its most rapid evolutionary period during World War II. Entering the war with just basic airborne imagery capabilities, by V-E and V-J days, air power pioneers greatly improved imagery collection and developed sophisticated airborne signals intelligence collection capabilities. The United States and other nations put these capabilities to use as the Cold War immediately followed. Flying near the periphery of and sometimes directly over the Soviet Union, airborne reconnaissance provided the intelligence necessary to stay one step ahead of the Soviets throughout the Cold War.

Author : Enzo George
Publisher : Cavendish Square Publishing, LLC
Page : 48 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2015-07-15
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781502604996

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The Cold War by Enzo George Pdf

Following World War II, Europe was divided in half: the democratic West, protected largely by the United State, and the communist East, controlled by the Soviet Union. In the decades that followed, the U.S. and Russia would compete for superiority in a conflict that came to be known as the Cold War. Explore the nuclear arms race, the conflicts in Korea and Vietnam, and the space race through first-hand accounts.

Author : Elizabeth Sirimarco
Publisher : Marshall Cavendish
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : History
ISBN : 0761416943

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The Cold War by Elizabeth Sirimarco Pdf

Presents the history of the Cold War through excerpts from letters, newspaper articles, speeches, and songs dating from the period. Includes review questions.

Author : Beatriz Colomina,Annemarie Brennan,Jeannie Kim
Publisher : Chronicle Books
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2012-04-17
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781616890872

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Cold War Hothouses by Beatriz Colomina,Annemarie Brennan,Jeannie Kim Pdf

The technological innovation and unprecedented physical growth of the cold war era permeated American life in every aspect and at every scale. From the creation of the military-industrial complex and the beginnings of suburban sprawl to the production of the ballpoint pen and the TV dinner, the artifacts of the period are a numerous and diverse as they are familiar. Over the past half-century, our awe at the advances of postwar society has softened to nostalgia, and our affection for its material culture has clouded our memories of the enormous spatial reorganizations and infrastructural transformations that changed American life forever.

Author : Valerie Bodden
Publisher : The Creative Company
Page : 48 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2007-07
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 1583415467

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The Cold War by Valerie Bodden Pdf

Examines the twentieth-century standoff between the United States and the Soviet Union, discussing origins, nuclear strategies, and the breakup of the Soviet Union.

Author : Peter G. Tsouras
Publisher : Tantor eBooks
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2011-10-19
Category : History
ISBN : 9781618030238

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Cold War Hot by Peter G. Tsouras Pdf

It was in the Third World that the ambitions and fears of the two Cold War superpowers were played out v Korea, Vietnam, Egypt and Syria, Afghanistan. In their bizarre way, these were carefully controlled wars, carefully controlled in the sense that neither great power allowed itself to become directly engaged in a hot war with the other. Equally, neither allowed itself to go for broke in a grand sweep across the Third World in fear of provoking that final confrontation. But this fear of direct confrontation was never as rigidly controlled as one would think. Again and again events veered towards a clash between Eagle and Bear. The authors of this book make real such terrifying possibilities as Korea or the 67 War dragging in both superpowers; they predict the consequences of the United States or the Soviet Union attempting radical strategies in Vietnam or in a divided Germany, either to follow the British success in Malaya or to invade the North; they imagine the invasion of Cuba when the delicate signals failed to find a way out of the Missile Crisis and bring to life a scenario in which the Soviet Union knocks the Great Game off the board by using Afghanistan as base to bring down Pakistan and achieve its warm water port on the Indian Ocean. Cold War Hot vividly brings to life these and many other alternate scenarios, taking the reader behind the scenes at these momentous moments in history. In showing what could have happened, the authors show how precarious the Cold War peace actually was, and how little it would have taken to tip the balance into World War Three.

Author : Hugh Higgins
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 141 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 1974-01-01
Category : World politics
ISBN : 0064928713

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The Cold War by Hugh Higgins Pdf

Author : David S. Painter
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 152 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : History
ISBN : 0415194466

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The Cold War by David S. Painter Pdf

The Cold War dominated international relations for forty-five years and hardly any part of the world escaped its influence. David Painter provides a compact and analytical study that examines its origins, course and end.

Author : Simon Adams
Publisher : Creative Company
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2004-07-30
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 1932889299

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The Cold War by Simon Adams Pdf

Looks at the history of the Cold War, examining events, people involved, and its eventual outcome.

Author : Michael Kort
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 1562943537

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The Cold War by Michael Kort Pdf

An illustrated history of the ideological conflict between the Communist bloc and Western democracies covers the personalities involved, surrogate wars, covert actions, nuclear threat, and the factors that brought the Cold War to an end.

Author : Meredith Day
Publisher : Encyclopaedia Britannica
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2016-07-15
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781680483505

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The Cold War by Meredith Day Pdf

Immediately following World War II, former allies the United States and the Soviet Union began an open yet restricted rivalry that became known as the Cold War and played out around the world until the Soviet Union's collapse in 1991. Many conflicts, such as the Chinese Civil War, the Korean War, the Vietnam War, and the Arab-Israeli wars, acted as proxy wars for the U.S.-Soviet competition. Other major issues explored in this examination of the Cold War include Europe's Iron Curtain, the nuclear arms race, decolonization in Africa, and the spread of communism into Latin America and Southeast Asia.

Author : Kempton Jenkins
Publisher : Nimble Books LLC
Page : 451 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781608880096

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Cold War Saga by Kempton Jenkins Pdf

For years, historians have dug into the archives, exploring the nuances of how the cold war was fought. But there is no substitute for the first-person testimony of the man who was there--in the pit--in the head-to-head confrontations in Moscow and Berlin and the Third World, in the decades when East and West struggled for supremacy. Kempton Jenkins was there at every turn; his memoir is a unique personal story as well as a valuable document in diplomatic history."-Ernest B. Furgueson, former Bureau Chief of the Baltimore Sun Moscow, Saigon and Washington, DC offices "As a Foreign Service veteran, I know a good FSO when I see one. Kempton Jenkins was one of the best (as he notes, at one point I tried to hire him). "Jenks'" voyage through a varied and stimulating career takes us from Asia to Berlin to Moscow to South America and to three different agencies, State, Commerce and USIA. Each assignment has its special challenges, which come to life under Kempton's facile pen. He highlights the issues and introduces the reader to the players, some good some bad. Yet Kempton demonstrates that our diplomacy worked; we more than coped. We shaped events. Reading his book is the closest you can become to being an FSO during an exciting and crucial period in our diplomacy."-Frank Carlucci "Cold War Saga provides a fascinating insider's view, enriched by personal experience. Jenkins' portraits of key cold war personalities, with whom he worked-Ambassador Llewellyn Thompson, Henry Kissinger, and Soviet Ambassador Dobryin-are especially revealing. A great read - Helen Thomas To us veterans of the Cold War's diplomatic front lines, Kempton Jenkins tells it like it was. He names the key players, gives a keen insight into their character, and shows why some were heroes and some villains. Cold War Saga is an absorbing read. If you fought with Jenks in the political trenches it will stir fond memories. If you didn't, it will take you there, and you won't forget where you've been or what was at stake. -Jack F. Matlock, Jr., U.S. Ambassador to the USSR, 1987-1991.

Author : Norman Friedman
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : Cold War
ISBN : 1781779457

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The Cold War by Norman Friedman Pdf

Author : Bruce L. Brager
Publisher : Infobase Publishing
Page : 173 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Berlin Wall, Berlin, Germany, 1961-1989
ISBN : 9780791078327

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The Iron Curtain by Bruce L. Brager Pdf

Visiting Central Europe, in 1962, a visitor would not see a real "Iron Curtain." There was no huge piece of grim drapery splitting Europe between Communist dictatorships and democracies. The Iron Curtain represented the Central European part of the Cold War, the generally peaceful, but highly dangerous, forty-year competition between the United States and its allies and the Soviet Union and its allies. The Iron Curtain symbolically represented the attempt to permanently, artificially, and arbitrarily split one part of Central Europe from the other. Although there was no real iron curtain, there was lots of steel in the form of barbed wire, ground radar, watchtowers, and machine guns in the hands of troops willing to use them. The boundary between democracy and totalitarianism was clear. This book tells the story of the Iron Curtain, and the Cold War it so vividly represented, from the start of World War II to its end with the dramatic fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989. Book jacket.

Author : IntroBooks
Publisher : IntroBooks
Page : 40 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2018-02-19
Category : History
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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History of Cold War by IntroBooks Pdf

World War II has been that topic of discussion for long time of period and almost everyone is already aware of that. This was the global war which lasted for seven long years from the date of 1939 to 1945, the conflicts related to which were already in action. Though, this war ended in 1945, there were still some things which could be seen as the result of this conflict, among which the one name that you can count on is Cold War. This was basically the name which was given to the relationship that was noticed developing between USA and USSR.