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Dr. David Coffey
Department of History and Phi losophy
University of Tennessee at Martin
Dr. Don Hickey
Department of History
Wayne State College
Dr. James Matray
Department of History
California State University, Chico
Dr. Jack McCallum
Department of History and Geography
Texas Christian University
Dr. Justin D. Murphy
Department of History, Political Science,
and Geography
Howard Payne University
Dr. Jim Piecuch
Department of History
Kennesaw State University
Dr. Carol Reardon
Department of History
Pennsylvania State University
Dr. Prisci lla Roberts
Centre for American Studies
University of Hong K0ng
Dr. Jim Wi llbanks
U.S. Army Command and General Staff
College, Fort Leavenworth
Dr. Bruce Winders
Historian and Curator
The Alamo
Dr. Steven Woodworth
Department of History
Texas Christian Univeristy
Major General David Zabecki, PhD
Army of the United States, Retired
General Essays
The Cold War: A Personal Perspective
Origins of the Cold War to 1950
Course of the Cold War (1950–1991)
Entries
Abdullah, King of Jordan (1882–1951)
Abel, Rudolf (1903–1971)
Abrams, Creighton Williams (1914–1974)
Acheson, Dean Gooderham (1893–1971)
Adams, Gerard, Jr. (1948–)
Adenauer, Konrad (1876–1967)
Afghanistan
Afghanistan War (1979–1989)
Africa
Africa, Soviet Interventions in
Africa, U.S. Interventions in
African National Congress
Aideed, Mohamed Farah (1934–1996)
Air Burst
Aircraft
Aircraft Carriers
AirLand Battle
Albania
Albert II, King of Belgium (1934–)
Algeria
Algerian War (1954–1962)
Alia, Ramiz (1925–)
Alianza Popular Revolucionaria Americana
Allende Gossens, Salvador (1908–1973)
Alliance for Progress
Allied Control Council of Germany
Alsop, Joseph Wright (1910–1989)
Americans for Democratic Action
Americas
Amin, Idi (1924?–2003)
Andreotti, Giulio (1919–)
Andropov, Yuri (1914–1984)
Anglo-Iranian Oil Crisis (1951–1953)
Antall, József (1932–1993)
Antarctica and Arctic
Antiaircraft Guns and Missiles
Anti-Americanism
Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty (1972)
Anticolonialism
Anti-Semitism
Antonescu, Ion (1882–1946)
ANZUS Pact (1 September 1951)
Aquino, Benigno, Jr. (1932–1983)
Aquino, Corazon (1933–)
Arab-Israeli Wars (1948–1973)
Arab Nationalism
Arafat, Yasir (1929–2004)
Arbenz, Jacobo Guzmán (1913–1971)
Argentina
Aristide, Jean-Bertrand (1953–)
Armenia
Arms Control
Arms Sales, International
Artillery
Asia, U.S. Armed Forces in
Assad, Hafez (1930–2000)
Atomic Bomb
Atomic Energy Commission, United Nations
List of Entries
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Atomic Energy Commission, United States
Atoms for Peace Proposal (8 December 1953)
Attlee, Clement Richard, 1st Earl (1883–1967)
Aung San Suu Kyi (1945–)
Auriol, Vincent (1884–1966)
Australia
Austria
Austrian State Treaty (15 May 1955)
Ayub Khan, Muhammad (1907–1974)
Azerbaijan
Baker, James Addison, III (1930–)
Balaguer Ricart, Joaquín Antonio (1906–2002)
Ball, George Wildman (1909–1994)
Ballistic Missile Early Warning System
Bandaranaike, Sirimavo (1916–2000)
Bandung Conference (18–24 April 1955)
Bangladesh
Barre, Mohammed Siyad (1919?–1995)
Batista y Zaldivar, Fulgencio (1901–1973)
Baudouin, King of Belgium (1930–1993)
Bay of Pigs (17 April 1961)
Beatles
Beatrix, Queen of the Netherlands (1938–)
Begin, Menachem (1913–1992)
Beijing Meeting (21–27 February 1972)
Belarus
Belgium
Benediktsson, Bjarni (1908–1970)
Benesˇ, Edvard (1884–1948)
Ben-Gurion, David (1886–1973)
Beria, Lavrenty Pavlovich (1899–1953)
Berlin Blockade and Airlift (1948–1949)
Berlin Crises (1958–1961)
Berlin Wall (13 August 1961–9 November 1989)
Berlinguer, Enrico (1922–1984)
Berman, Jakub (1901–1984)
Bessarabia
Betancourt, Rómulo (1908–1981)
Bevin, Ernest (1881–1951)
Bhumipol Adulyadej, King of Thailand (1927–)
Bhutan
Bhutto, Benazir (1953–)
Bhutto, Zulfikar Ali (1928–1979)
Biafra War (1967–1970)
Bidault, Georges (1899–1983)
Bierut, Bolesflaw (1892–1956)
Bikini Island Atomic Tests
Biological and Chemical Weapons and Warfare
Bissell, Richard Mervin, Jr. (1909–1994)
Black Panthers
Blum, Léon (1872–1950)
Bo Yibo (1908–2007)
Bodnärasc, Emil (1904–1976)
Bogotá, Act of (13 September 1960)
Bohlen, Charles Eustis (1904–1974)
Bokassa, Jean-Bédel (1921–1996)
Bolivia
Bombers, Strategic
Bonner, Yelena Georgievna (1923–)
Bosch Gaviño, Juan (1909–2001)
Botha, Pieter Willem (1916–2006)
Botha, Roelof Frederik (1932–)
Bourguiba, Habib (1903–2000)
Bradley, Omar Nelson (1893–1981)
Brady Plan (March 1989)
Brainwashing
Brandt, Willy (1913–1992)
Brabtianu, Gheorghe Ion (1898–1953)
Braun, Wernher von (1912–1977)
Brazil
Bretton Woods System
Brezhnev, Leonid (1906–1982)
Brezhnev Doctrine
British Commonwealth of Nations
Browder, Earl Russell (1891–1973)
Brown, Harold (1927–)
Bruce, David Kirkpatrick Este (1898–1977)
Brunei
Brussels Treaty (1948)
Brzezinski, Zbigniew (1928–)
Bulganin, Nikolai Alexandrovich (1895–1975)
Bulgaria
Bunche, Ralph Johnson (1904–1971)
Bundy, McGeorge (1919–1996)
Bundy, William Putnam (1917–2000)
Burgess, Guy Francis de Moncy (1911–1963)
Burma
Bush, George Herbert Walker (1924–)
Byrnes, James Francis (1879–1972)
Caetano, Marcelo José das Neves (1906–1980)
Callaghan, James (1912–2005)
Cambodia
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