Cold War Crucible: The Korean Conflict And The Postwar World

After World War II, the major powers faced social upheaval at home and anti-colonial wars around the globe. Alarmed by conflict in Korea that could change U.S.-Soviet relations from chilly to nuclear, ordinary people and policymakers created a fantasy of a bipolar Cold War world in which global and domestic order was paramount, Masuda Hajimu shows.

• | Author: Hajimu Masuda
• | Publisher: Harvard University Press
• | Publication Date: Feb 10, 2015
• | Number of Pages: 400 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Hardcover
• | ISBN-10: 0674598474
• | ISBN-13: 9780674598478