The Cold War: An Uneasy Peace: 1945-1980

by Craig E. Blohm

For more than forty years after World War II the world was embroiled in an ideological conflict known as the Cold War. From the war's end through the Vietnam years, the United States and the Soviet Union struggled to advance their political ideas, while coping with perilous crises that, if allowed to escalate, could have destroyed the world. (20010801)

112 pages, Hardcover

First published June 28, 2002