Summits : six meetings that shaped the twentieth century /
The Cold War dominated world history for nearly half a century, locking two superpowers in a global rivalry that only ended with the Soviet collapse. The most decisive moments of twentieth-century diplomacy occurred when world leaders met face to face-from the mishandled summit in Munich, 1938, whic...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York :
Basic Books,
2009.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- LIST OF MAPS; LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS; INTRODUCTION; 1 TOWARD THE SUMMIT: From Babylon to Versailles; 2 MUNICH 1938: Chamberlain and Hitler; 3 YALTA 1945: Churchill, Roosevelt and Stalin; 4 VIENNA 1961: Kennedy and Khrushchev; 5 MOSCOW 1972: Brezhnev and Nixon; 6 CAMP DAVID 1978: Begin, Carter and Sadat; 7 GENEVA 1985: Gorbachev and Reagan; 8 SUMMITRY AS A WAY OF LIFE: From the G7 to Bush and Blair; SOURCES AND ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; ABBREVIATIONS; NOTES; INDEX.