A History of the Modern World, 9/e

R R Palmer, Yale University
Joel Colton, Duke University
Lloyd Kramer, University of North Carolina Chapel Hill

A World Endangered: Coexistence and Confrontation in the Cold War

Learning Objectives

Chapter 24 teaches students about:

The stabilization of the Cold War by about 1955, despite the continuation of the arms race and global competition between the two superpowers.

The escalation of tensions between the Soviet Union and the U.S. during the Cuban missile crisis.

U.S. involvement in Vietnam.

Detente under Nixon.

The causes of and responses to the economic recession of 1974.

The waning faith in Keynesian economics and the rise of conservative governments in the U.S. and western Europe who scaled back social spending.

The renewed escalation of the Cold War in the late 1970s.

The Reagan years, which entailed the expansion of nuclear capabilities.

Deng's reforms in China after the death of Mao.

The democracy movement in China and the Tiananmen Square massacre.

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