Part 1: The Origins of the Cold War to 1968
1. Setting the Stage: The American Ideal and the Bolshevik Revolution
2. World War II and the Origins of Cold War Tensions
The Atlantic Charter - read in Debating the Origins of the Cold War, 65-66.
Comments on the Results of the Decisions Made at the Yalta Conference - read in Debating the Origins of the Cold War, 67-68.
3. The Decent of the Iron Curtain, 1945-1947
The Long Telegram - read in Debating the Origins of the Cold War, 69-75.
Stalin to Politburo Four - read in Debating the Origins of the Cold War, 155-156.
4. The Onset of the Cold War, 1947-1952
5. The Fall of China and the Korean War, 1945-1953
6. Anti-Communism at Home, 1945-1954
7. The Soviet Union After Stalin, 1953-1956
8. Eisenhower and the Cold War, 1952-1960
9. The U-2 Affair, the Congo Crisis, and the Cuban Revolution
10. The Berlin Wall
11. The Cuban Missile Crisis
12. Vietnam: Part 1, 1954-1968
13. New Left, New Right: America in the 1960s
14. Red Spring: The Sino-Soviet Split and the Soviet Crackdown in Czechoslovakia
Part 2: Détente and the End of the Cold War, 1969-1991
15. The Advent of Détente
16. The Cold War in Asia, South America, and the Middle East, 1970-1974
17. Vietnam: Part 2, 1968-1974
18. Watergate, Economic Woes for the U.S., and Nuclear Diplomacy in the 1970s
19. Soviet Intervention in Afghanistan
20. The End of Détente
21. America Turns Right: Understanding Ronald Reagan
22. Star Wars, the Year of Fear, and Reagan's Foreign Policy Shift, 1981-1984
23. The Role of Espionage in the Cold War
24. Backyard: U.S. Involvement in Latin America
25. Mikhail Gorbachev's Vision for the Soviet Union
26. The Triumph of Improvisation: Superpower Summits, 1985-1989
27. The Berlin Wall Comes Down
28. The Dissolution of the Soviet Union
29. Towards a New Cold War?