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2) The Cold War
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"This high-interest series, aimed at reluctant readers, looks at secret campaigns behind the major conflicts of the past 100 years. Biographical sidebars focus on heroic or notorious personalities. Highlighted fact features include special operations and their results, resistance movements, propaganda and the history of the time - as is known ... and not readily known"--Provided by publisher.
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"Our American Friend is a propulsive Cold War era spy thriller crossed with a fictional biography of a First Lady. Spanning from the 1970s to the present day, traveling from Moscow and Paris to Washington and New York, Anna Pitoniak's novel is a gripping page-turner about power and complicity and how sometimes, the fate of the world is in the hands of the people you'd never expect"--
5) The Cold War
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Documents the history of the Cold War, which took place between the 1940s and the 1990s; and provides fully cited quotes from historical figures, letters, speeches, and other sources, along with facts and analysis; and includes a chronology and time line.
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This program traces the development and collapse of successive alliances and conflicts in Europe and Asia that culminate in the struggle against the much feared spread of Communism. Excellent summaries of post-World War II events between Europe's Eastern and Western blocs, the rise of Mao Tse Tung in China and the causes of the Korean and Vietnam wars are presented.
8) Red Menace
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"During the summer of 1953, thirteen-year-old Marty's parents are suspected of communist sympathies, upending his life and causing him to question what it really means to be a patriotic American"--
9) The Cold War
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An overview of the Cold War that discusses its causes, the Truman Doctrine, espionage, the House Un-American Activities Committee, its aftermath, and other related topics, and includes photographs, a time line, and a list of additional resources.
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Following the end of World War II, the Truman administration created the Federal Civil Defense Administration (FCDA). The agency produced videos, booklets, and television shows to convince the American public that they could survive a nuclear attack by taking basic precautions. School children practiced "duck and cover" drills, dropping under their desks and covering their heads in response to a warning. Fear of a Soviet nuclear attack also led many...
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After the close of World War II, the U.S.S.R. and the United States entered into the cold war, wherein the two nations competed for world influence. The United States had already developed and used the atom bomb in 1945 against Japan; in 1949, the U.S.S.R. detonated their own atom bomb. This marked the start of the arms race between the two nations. The United States, now no longer the only country with nuclear weapons, began the development of the...
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Fear of a nuclear attack by the Soviet Union led Americans to invest in many civil defense measures during the cold war. The discovery of radiation left in the air after an atomic blast, known as fallout, led to the creation of fallout shelters. These reinforced concrete shelters were promoted as safe, easy-accessible locations in which a family could live for an extended amount of time following a nuclear attack.
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Laika began her life as a stray dog on the streets of Moscow and died in 1957 aboard the Soviet satellite Sputnik II. Initially the USSR reported that Laika, the first animal to orbit the earth, had survived in space for seven days, providing valuable data that would make future manned space flight possible. People believed that Laika died a painless death as her oxygen ran out. Only in recent decades has the real story become public: Laika died after...
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Having read all the Nancy Drew stories, and having heard a Russian spy has infiltrated her small town, young Hazel Kaplansky decides that she can stop the Russian's plans--especially now that a cute boy named Samuel has moved into her town as well, who seems to share her love for sleuthing.
15) The Cold War
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There are days that make history, and then there are days that shape the world. This title examines how this event caused global change.
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Peter Guillam, staunch colleague and disciple of George Smiley of the British Secret Service, otherwise known as the Circus, is living out his old age on the family farmstead on the south coast of Brittany when a letter from his old Service summons him to London. The reason? His Cold War past has come back to claim him. Intelligence operations that were once the toast of secret London, and involved such characters as Alec Leamas, Jim Prideaux, George...
17) Cold War
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A part of the series America in the 20th Century. Although communists and capitalists united during World War II to crush fascism, Hitler's defeat set the stage for allies to become adversaries once more. This program frames the Cold War between the United States and the Soviet Union as the defining conflict of much of the 20th century. Viewers are shown how the world's two superpowers faced off in an uncompromising showdown over ideology and economics...
18) The apothecary
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Fourteen-year-old Janie Scott, newly arrived in London from Los Angeles in 1952, becomes friends with a mysterious apothecary and his son, Benjamin Burrows, and is drawn into a dangerous adventure with Benjamin when his father is kidnapped and Russian spies try to steal his book of secrets.
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"From the bestselling author of Leaving Berlin and The Good German comes a fast-paced and richly imagined novel about an American spy, the Cold War's most notorious defector, who gave up his country for the safety--and prison--of Moscow, but never lost his gift for betrayal. In 1949, Frank Weeks, fair-haired boy of the newly formed CIA, was exposed as a Communist spy and fled the country to vanish behind the Iron Curtain. Now, twelve years later,...