`America, Russia, and the Cold War, 1945-2006` by Walter LaFeber

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IntroductionIn the text , America , Russia and the cold war , 1945-2006 , Lafeber gives an insight into the diplomatic relations between the United States and the Soviet Union to explain the causes as well as the consequences of the cold war . Walter LaFeber (2002 , a Cornell University don seeks to bring out the course of the cold war in close contrast to the unfolding events in as far as diplomatic ties are concerned between the two states . To achieve this , Walter LaFeber (2002 , therefore gives a detailed account of how domestic events in the two states brought out a new face of the cold war . In a nutshell , these are events that place in the Soviet Union and in the United States that immensely shaped the cold war . Of significance is the role played by the participation of other states in the cold war and the impact of their involvement . The involvement of external forces namely China , Latin America and Vietnam also handed substantial twists and turns to the cod war as Walter LaFeber (2002 , seeks to explain .The author highlights the iron curtain phenomenon in the first chapter as a major build up to the cold war . The term Iron Curtain was coined by German scholar Lutz Gaf Schwerin Von Krosigk in an apparent reference to the boundary that separated Warsaw pact countries from NATO countries . This division lasted over half a century-from the end of World War II to the end of cold war in 1991 (wisegeek .com )The separation of Warsaw pact countries took two major dimensions . It involved physical separation and ideological separation .Basically , this separation was a reflection of Europe 's perspective of the world . On the East of the Iron curtain , there was a conglomeration of communist leaning states which included Romania , Yugoslavia , Albania , and Czechoslovakia among others . On the other divide-west were the capitalist states which also happened to...