Cold War by Fink, Carole K. -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

Cover Title Page Copyright Dedication Contents Preface List of Photographs List of Maps List of Abbreviations and Acronyms Chronology INTRODUCTION CHAPTER ONE PRELUDE: SOVIET RUSSIA AND THE WEST, 1917–1941

War and Revolution A Contested Peace The Soviet Entry into World Politics The Dark Decade, 1931–1939 The Aggressors Triumphant, 1939–1941 Suggestions for Further Study

CHAPTER TWO: THE GRAND ALLIANCE, 1941–1945

Disparate Partners Turning the Tide While Tensions Mount Moving Apart Yalta The End of World War II Suggestions for Further Study

CHAPTER THREE: COLD WAR, 1949–1952

Two Rivals Emerge Nuremberg: The Final Collaboration The Rupture 1947: The Division of Europe The World Outside Europe Prague and Berlin 1949 War in Korea Suggestions for Further Study

CHAPTER FOUR: THE WIDENING CONFLICT, 1953–1963

A Global Cold War Hungary Suez The Nuclear Question Building Europe Peaceful Coexistence? Cuba and Berlin Exit Kennedy and Khrushchev Suggestions for Further Study

CHAPTER FIVE: THE SIXTIES

The Cold War in Vietnam June 1967: The Arab-Israeli War Prague: August 1968 1968: International Human Rights Year Suggestions for Further Study

CHAPTER SIX: DÉTENTE, 1969–1975

Reducing the Nuclear Threat Ostpolitik Ping-Pong Diplomacy Testing Détente, 1970–1974

The Middle East South Asia Vietnam The October War in the Middle East

Helsinki Suggestions for Further Study

CHAPTER SEVEN: DÉTENTE COLLAPSES, 1975–1980

Human Rights The Cold War in Africa SS-20 Missiles and SALT II The Middle East: 1979 Solidarność Suggestions for Further Study

CHAPTER EIGHT: THE SECOND COLD WAR, 1981–1985

The Deterioration of US-Soviet Relations

Martial Law in Poland Reagan’s Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI) The Downing of KAL 007 “White Hot, Thoroughly White Hot,” Human Rights

Central and South America Asia Africa The Middle East Suggestions for Further Study

CHAPTER NINE: THE END OF THE COLD WAR, 1985–1991

The Gorbachev Revolution in International Affairs 1989: The Transformation of Eastern Europe 1990: German Reunification 1991: The Collapse of the Soviet Union Suggestions for Further Study

CHAPTER TEN: AFTERMATH, 1992–2001

The 1990s: A Global View Asia Africa The Middle East Latin America Europe

The Wars in Yugoslavia The European Union

The United States and 9/11 Suggestions for Further Study

CONCLUSION List of Individuals Bibliography Index