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Product Identifiers

PublisherFacts On File, Incorporated

ISBN-100791078329

ISBN-139780791078327

eBay Product ID (ePID)30215601

Product Key Features

Book TitleIron Curtain : the Cold War in Europe

Number of Pages112 Pages

LanguageEnglish

Publication Year2004

TopicHistory / Europe, Social Science / Politics & Government, History / Modern

IllustratorYes

GenreJuvenile Nonfiction

AuthorBruce Brager

Book SeriesArbitrary Borders Ser.

FormatHardcover

Dimensions

Item Weight15.2 Oz

Item Length9 in

Item Width6 in

Additional Product Features

Intended AudienceElementary/High School

LCCN2003-023454

Dewey Edition22

TitleLeadingThe

Grade FromNinth Grade

Educational LevelHigh School, Elementary School

Grade ToCollege Freshman

Dewey Decimal940.55

SynopsisThis series examines the important issue of the significance of arbitrary borders in world history These studies describe arbitrary borders as places where people interact differently from the way they would had the boundary not existed. The Iron Curtain symbolised the Cold War - the peaceful but highly sensitive 40-year stand-off between the Soviet Union and the US and its allies. Discover its story from it origins after WWII to the fall of the Berlin Wall., This series examines the important issue of the significance of arbitrary borders in world history These studies describe arbitrary borders as places where people interact differently from the way they would had the boundary not existed Analytical, but easy to read, these brief histories will appeal to a broad sweep of readership The Iron Curtain symbolised the Cold War - the peaceful but highly sensitive 40-year stand-off between the Soviet Union and the US and its allies. Discover its story from it origins after WWII to the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989., Visiting Central Europe, in 1962, a visitor would not see a real "Iron Curtain." There was no huge piece of grim drapery splitting Europe between Communist dictatorships and democracies. The Iron Curtain represented the Central European part of the Cold War, the generally peaceful, but highly dangerous, forty-year competition between the United States and its allies and the Soviet Union and its allies. The Iron Curtain symbolically represented the attempt to permanently, artificially, and arbitrarily split one part of Central Europe from the other. Although there was no real iron curtain, there was lots of steel in the form of barbed wire, ground radar, watchtowers, and machine guns in the hands of troops willing to use them. The boundary between democracy and totalitarianism was clear. This book tells the story of the Iron Curtain, and the Cold War it so vividly represented, from the start of World War II to its end with the dramatic fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989. Book jacket.

LC Classification NumberD843.B658 2004