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When Strategies of Containment was first published, the Soviet Union was still a superpower, Ronald Reagan was president of the United States, and the Berlin Wall was still standing. This updated edition of Gaddis' classic carries the history of containment through the end of the Cold War.... read more
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Characters/People edit
- George Kennan: Add a description of this character.
- Henry Kissinger
- Kennedy
- Johnson
- John Foster Dulles
- Reagan
- Gorbachev
- Eisenhower
- Rostow
- Roosevelt
- Kerman
- Stalin
- Mcnamara
- Carter
- Dean Acheson
- Shultz
- Hitler
- Khrushchev
- Khmshchev
- Nixon
- Truman
- Taft
- Harriman
- George F. Kennan
- Dobrynin
- Tito
- Byrnes
- Whitman
- Paul Nitze
- Zhou Enlai
- Andropov
- Rusk
- Jackson
- Churchill
- Deane
- Clausewitz
- Marshall
- Mao Zedong
Setting & Locations edit
- United States
- Soviet Union
- Moscow
- Indochina
- Washington
- South Vietnam
- Eastern Europe
- Kremlin
- Germany
- Japan
- White House
- South Korea
- U.s.s.r.
- Southeast Asia
- Beijing
- Hanoi
- Russia
- New York
- Greece
- Berlin
- Cuba
- Saigon
- North Vietnam
- Turkey
- Iran
- Middle East
- Latin America
- Taiwan
- Africa
- Afghanistan
- Geneva
- Western Europe
- Angola
- New Look
- Laos
- Cambodia
- Chile
- India
- Great Britain
- Yugoslavia
- Pakistan
- Seato
First Sentence edit
"My children, it is permitted you in time of grave danger to walk with the devil until you have crossed the bridge."
Authors & Contributors edit
- John Lewis Gaddis (Author)
Classification edit
- Library of Congress: Add the Library of Congress Classification.
- Dewey: 327.73009045
Subjects edit
- Books › Nonfiction › Politics › Freedom & Security › International Security
- Books › History › Americas › United States › 20th Century
- Books › Nonfiction › Social Sciences › Political Science › Government
- Books › Nonfiction › Politics › International › Relations
- Books › Nonfiction › Politics › U.S.
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