The cold war as history

The Cold War viewed as history

The enlargement of Moscow's empire at the end of World War II

The behavior of Moscow as a reflection of Russia's historic experience

American behavior as a reflection of experience opposite to that of the Russians

The creation, in 1945, of the power vacuums on either side of Russia into which it tended to expand

Russia's conquest of the Baltic states and East Poland in 1939-1940, and what Stalin's postwar intentions in eastern Europe may have been

The divergence between Russian and western views of the world that made postwar planning difficult

The tragedy of Poland, 1939-1945

The fall of Rumania, Hungary, Bulgaria, and Czechoslovakia

What happened in Yugoslavia, Albania, Germany, Greece, Itlay, and France at the end of the war

The defeat of Japan and the expansion of Russia in the Far East

The United States in search of a workable foreign policy

The Greek-Turkish crisis of 1947 and the proclamation of the Truman Doctrine

The Marshall Plan and Moscow's reaction to it

The success of the European recovery program in spite of Moscow's opposition

The creation of the Cominform

The real issue of the Cold War and its mythic formulations

The implications of atomic power

The formation of the western military alliance

The Far Eastern policy of the United States and its disasters up to 1950

Surprise attack in Korea and improvisation by the United States to meet it

The Korean War to the point where western success provokes Chinese intervention

The defection of Yugoslavia

Remobilization, rearmament, and McCarthyism in the United States

The movement toward west European unification

The situation at the beginning of the 1950s

The new administration in the United States and its adjustment to responsibility

The new administration and the problems of military policy

The extension of 'containment' to Asia and the beginning of American involvement in Indo-China.