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Table of Contents:

• Introduction : A geography of Cold War-era violence ; The Iron Curtain descends, 1945-1947
• Part I. The East Asian offensive and the rise of Third World communism, 1945-1954. The Cold War comes to China, 1945-1946 ; The Cold War's first battlefield, 1946-1949 ; Intervening in Korea, 1945-1950 ; Rehearsing for World War III, 1950-1954 ; French Indochina and the death of colonialism, 1945-1954
• Part II. The Indo-Asian bloodbaths and the fall of Third World communism, 1964-1979. Making a quagmire in Vietnam, 1961-1965 ; The massacre of the Indonesian PKI, 1965 ; The Tet Offensive and Ussuri River clashes, 1967-1969 ; Selective genocide in Bangladesh, 1971 ; The India-Pakistan War, 1971 ; The fall of Phnom Penh and Saigon, 1975-1979 ; The Cambodian nightmare, 1975-1979
• Part III. The great sectarian revolt of the late Cold War, 1975-1990. The Lebanese Civil War, 1975-1978 ; The Iranian Revolution, 1978-1979 ; The Soviet intervention in Afghanistan, 1978-1979 ; The Middle East at war, 1980-1982 ; Reagan's war for the Middle East, 1983-1987 ; "You are creating a Frankenstein," 1988-1990
• Conclusion.

Author/Creator:

Chamberlin, Paul Thomas , author

Languages:

English

Language Notes:

Item content: English

Main Work:

The Cold War's Killing Fields: Rethinking the Long Peace [by Chamberlin, P.T.]

Subjects:

Military history, Modern — 20th century

Cold War

History, Modern — 1945-1989

Cold War (1945-1989)

1900-1999

History, Modern

Military history, Modern

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Digital Characteristics:

text file

Call Numbers:

D842.2 .C436 2019eb

ISBNs:

0062367226
9780062367228 (electronic bk.)
9780062367211 [Invalid]

OCLC Numbers:

1132342961