The Cold War: The Great Powers and Their Allies

PART ONE - INTRODUCTION. 1. The Cold War: an Overview. 2. The Domestic Background in the Soviet Union and the United States. PART TWO - EAST-WEST RELATIONS 1945 - 1991. 3. The First Phases of the Cold War (to 1950). 4. The Korean War and its International Consequences. 5. Stalin's Death and the First 'Detente'. 6. The Strategic Dimension of East-West Competition. 7. The Khrushchev Years. 8. The Vietnam War and Other Proxy Conflicts of the 1960s and 1970s. 9. Detente in Europe. 10. The United States, China and the World 11. The Rise and Fall of Detente in the 1970s. 12. The 1980s - Tension and the Ending of the Cold War. PART THREE - WESTERN EUROPE AND THE COMMUNIST WORLD. 13. Western Europe: I - The Political Order the Establishment of the European Community France and Germany. 14. Western Europe: II - Britain, France and the US the Community since 1985. 15. Splits in the Communist World. 16. Eastern Europe since 1957. Conclusion. 17. Perspectives on the Cold War. Guide to Further Reading. Index.