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Cold War? 48 pages : illustrations (some colour), maps, portraits Contents includes: Race to the moon -- What was the Cold War? -- What made the Cold War cold? -- Cold War battles -- The end of the Cold War -- Cold War politics -- International politics -- Conflicts around the world -- Life in the east -- Life in the west -- Cuba and Vietnam -- The arms race -- Nuclear legacy of the Cold War -- The space race -- The spy game -- Science and technology -- Propaganda -- Popular culture -- Sports rivalry -- After the Cold War -- Positive effects of the Cold War Summary: This book looks at how and why the Cold War developed between the USSR and the USA and their opposing ideas of communism and capitalism. It examines the legacy of the Cold War, both in terms of the bad things that came out of it, such as instability and conflicts around the world, denial of human rights to millions of people and the stockpiling of nuclear and conventional weapons, and the good things, including technological progress, advances in medical understanding and developments in art, literature and sport Did anything good come out of