ABSTRACT

This reference guide throws light on almost every aspect of postwar international history from the rise of Mao's China to the Bosnian Civil War. It provides a huge wealth of information on East-West relations setting events, crises and conflicts in their full international context.



part 1|79 pages

Chronology

part 2|51 pages

Crises and conflicts

part 3|15 pages

Conferences and Summits

part 4|36 pages

Major treaties and organisations

part 5|15 pages

Major office-holders (to December 1997)

part 6|66 pages

Biographies

part 8|3 pages

Strategic nuclear weapons: the US and Soviet balance, 1956–79

part 9|11 pages

Bibliography

part 10|15 pages

Maps