The Cuban Missile Crisis / / Laurie Collier Hillstrom
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| Autore: |
Hillstrom Laurie Collier
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| Titolo: |
The Cuban Missile Crisis / / Laurie Collier Hillstrom
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| Pubblicazione: | Detroit, Michigan : , : Omnigraphics, , 2015 |
| ©2015 | |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (248 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 973.922 |
| Soggetto topico: | Cuban Missile Crisis, 1962 |
| Soggetto genere / forma: | Electronic books. |
| Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | ""Table of Contents""; ""Preface""; ""How to Use This Book""; ""Research Topics for Defining Moments: The Cuban Missile Crisis""; ""Narrative Overview""; ""Prologue""; ""Chapter One: The Cold War""; ""Chapter Two: The United States and Cuba""; ""Chapter Three: The Discovery of Soviet Missiles in Cuba""; ""Chapter Four: The World Reaches the Brink of Nuclear War""; ""Chapter Five: The Cold War Comes to an End""; ""Chapter Six: The Legacy of the Cuban Missile Crisis""; ""Biographies""; ""Rudolf Anderson Jr. (1927-1962)""; ""Fidel Castro (1926- )""; ""Anatoly Dobrynin (1919-2010)"" |
| ""Alexander Feklisov (1914-2007)""""John F. Kennedy (1917-1963)""; ""Robert F. Kennedy (1925-1968)""; ""Nikita Khrushchev (1894-1971)""; ""John McCone (1902-1991)""; ""Robert S. McNamara (1916-2009)""; ""Ted Sorensen (1928-2010)""; ""Primary Sources""; ""The Soviet Union Vows to Defend Cuba""; ""Robert F. Kennedy Describes ExComm Deliberations""; ""John F. Kennedy Tells the World about the Missiles""; ""Nikita Khrushchev Denounces the U.S. Naval Blockade""; ""An Influential Columnist Proposes a Solution""; ""Fidel Castro Calls for a Nuclear Strike"" | |
| ""Khrushchev Sends His Conciliatory “First Letter�""""Khrushchev Sends His More Aggressive “Second Letter�""; ""Kennedy Responds to Khrushchev�s Initial Offer""; ""Anatoly Dobrynin Worries That Nuclear War Is Imminent""; ""Khrushchev Accepts the Deal""; ""Kennedy Presents “A Strategy for Peace�""; ""The Crisis�s Lasting Impact on U.S. Foreign Policy""; ""Important People, Places, and Terms""; ""Chronology""; ""Sources for Further Study""; ""Bibliography""; ""Photo and Illustration Credits""; ""Index"" | |
| Titolo autorizzato: | The Cuban Missile Crisis |
| ISBN: | 1-78539-296-4 |
| 0-7808-1367-7 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910534542103321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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Defining moments.