Introduction: A Geography of Cold War–Era Violence
1: The Iron Curtain Descends, 1945–1947
Part I: The East Asian Offensive and the Rise of Third World Communism, 1945–1954
2: The Cold War Comes to China, 1945–1946
3: The Cold War’s First Battlefield, 1946–1949
4: Intervening in Korea, 1945–1950
5: Rehearsing for World War III, 1950–1954
6: French Indochina and the Death of Colonialism, 1945–1954
Part II: The Indo-Asian Bloodbaths and the Fall of Third World Communism, 1964–1979
7: Making a Quagmire in Vietnam, 1961–1965
8: The Massacre of the Indonesian PKI, 1965
9: The Tet Offensive and Ussuri River Clashes, 1967–1969
10: Selective Genocide in Bangladesh, 1971
11: The India-Pakistan War, 1971
12: The Fall of Phnom Penh and Saigon, 1975–1979
13: The Cambodian Nightmare, 1975–1979
Part III: The Great Sectarian Revolt of the Late Cold War, 1975–1990
14: The Lebanese Civil War, 1975–1978
15: The Iranian Revolution, 1978–1979
16: The Soviet Intervention in Afghanistan, 1978–1979
17: The Middle East at War, 1980–1982
18: Reagan’s War for the Middle East, 1983–1987