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Medfield - Current Events: Understanding the Russo-Ukrainian War
Watertown Summer Reading Middle School
Medfield - Current Events: Understanding the Russo-Ukrainian War
Watertown Summer Reading Middle School
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"As World War II comes to a close, the United States and the Soviet Union emerge as the two greatest world powers on extreme opposites of the political spectrum. After the United States showed its hand with the atomic bomb in Hiroshima, the Soviets refuse to be left behind. With communism sweeping the globe, the two nations begin a neck-and-neck competition to build even more destructive bombs and conquer the Space Race. In their battle for dominance,...
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A gripping historical account of President Ronald Reagan's battle to end the Cold War, adapted for young readers from the book by #1 bestselling author and Fox News Channel anchor Bret Baier
On May 31, 1988, President Ronald Reagan stood before a packed audience at Moscow State University. He delivered a speech that would go down in history, as it was the first time an American president had given an address about human rights on Russian soil. The...
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The Cold War was a time of ultimate technological, military, and political competition between the United States and the Soviet Union. Proxy wars were fought between countries supported by one of the two superpowers of the United States or the Soviet Union. The United States and Soviet Union put their powers to the test in the arms race and the space race. This book describes how the landscape of war was forever changed as these formidable forces...
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Lothrop, Lee & Shepard Books
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c1996
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English
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For almost 50 years after World War II, the antagonism caused by two rival ideologies-democracy and communism-dominated international politics. In the first comprehensive study of the cold war since the dissolution of the Soviet Union, James Warren takes a thoughtful look at where America has been and where we might be headed.
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"The Cold War: a time when microdots and wiretaps were the height of espionage technology, when weapons of mass destruction threatened the end of the world, and where the ability to break a code could mean the difference between stopping a war and starting one. But in this fifty-year conflict between America and Russia, the most valuable weapons were people, not spy gadgets. From suave MI6 officers to cheerful families in Moscow to traitorous KGB...
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Inkshares, Inc
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[2022]
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English
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1950. The Cold War simmers, and ex-GI Jack Waters is called in to investigate a fatal accident at a research lab in California. When Waters recognizes the victim, he realizes he must revisit his hidden past in World War II to solve a murder and prevent Nazi scientists from creating a terrible, new weapon in America. Blending noir detective fiction with post-WWII history, The Man from Mittelwerk builds from the facts of Operation Paperclip, the U.S....
12) The Cold War
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Sea-to-Sea Publications
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2005
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English
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Examines the history of the Cold War, the events that took place, the people involved, and its eventual outcome. The fear of nuclear war was a key factor in keeping world peace after 1945. Was it? Discover the answer in this readable, informative source book.
13) The home front
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Lucent Books
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c2003
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English
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Examines how the Cold War period in America, lasting roughly fifty years following World War II, was a contradictory time of prosperity and optimism coupled with concerns over Soviet espionage infiltrating American institutions and fear of nuclear apocalypse.
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