Special Subject Collections Cold War History

Cold War History takes pride in the excellent research presented in the journal to illuminate new aspects of the history of the Cold War. These special subject collections are being brought out to highlight this work and make it available to new audiences. The articles have been published over the life of the journal, and have been selected to emphasize the different approaches presented in the journal. They are now freely available and in electronic form.

The Cold War in Latin America
The Cold War in Germany
The Cold War in China
The Cold War and John F. Kennedy

The Cold War in Latin America

Brazil's Cold War in the Southern Cone, 1970–1975
- Tanya Harmer
Countering the Soviet Threat? An Analysis of the Justifications for US Military Assistance to El Salvador, 1979-92
- Doug Stokes
Striking for freedom? International intervention and the Guianese sugar workers' strike of 1964
- Robert Anthony Waters Jr. & Gordon Oliver Daniels
Cuba and the Independence of Namibia
- Piero Gleijeses
The shadows of Cold War over Latin America: the US reaction to Fidel Castro's nationalism, 1956-59
- Vanni Pettinà
Human rights and the Cold War: the campaign to halt the Argentine 'dirty war'
- William Michael Schmidli

The Cold War in Germany

Cold War history in Germany
- Jost Dülffer
Driving the Soviets up the Wall: A Super-Ally, a Superpower, and the Building of the Berlin Wall, 1958-61
- H. Harrison
The Cultural Contradictions of Cold War Education: The Case of West Berlin
- Jeremi Suri
‘Declaration of Love on Celluloid’: The depiction of the Berlin Wall in a GDR film, 1961–62
- Cyril Buffet
Bargaining with the bear: Chancellor Erhard's bid to buy German reunification, 1963–64
- Benedikt Schoenborn

The Cold War in China

Winner of the Saki Ruth Dockrill Memorial Prize for best paper

Soviet policy in the developing world and the Chinese challenge in the 1960s
- Jeremy Friedman
The Sino-Soviet Border Clash of 1969: From Zhenbao Island to Sino-American Rapprochement
- Y. Kuisong
The People’s Republic of China and the Warsaw Pact Organization, 1955-63
- Lorenz M. Lüthi
Cold War co-operation: New Chinese evidence on Jawaharlal Nehru’s 1954 visit to Beijing
- Sulmaan Wasif Khan

The Cold War and John F. Kennedy

Kennedy, Bush and Crisis Management
- L. Freedman
Parallel spheres: Anglo-American cooperation over Cuba, 1959–61
- Christopher Hull
Tanks at Checkpoint Charlie: Lucius Clay and the Berlin Crisis, 1961–62
- Ingo Wolfgang Trauschweizer
An Uneasy Truce: John F. Kennedy and Soviet-American Détente, 1963
- J. See
Covert Action and US Cold War Strategy in Cuba, 1961–62
- Aiyaz Husain
Ties that bind: John F. Kennedy and the foundations of the American–Israeli alliance
- Zachary K. Goldman
In search of stability amid chaos: US policy toward Iran, 1961–63
- Victor V. Nemchenok
‘The most serious problem’? Canada–US relations and Cuba, 1962
- Asa McKercher