Part I. Origins and Early Development of the Cold War 1945-53
1.
Tensions in the Grand Alliance 1945-46
2.
Two Worlds: East and West 1945-48
3.
Empire, Cold War and Decolonization 1945-53
4.
The Cold War Intensifies: Containment Superseded 1948-53
Part II. The Cold War: Crisis and Change 1953-62
5.
Soviet-American Relations: Avoiding Hot Water and the Search for Stability
6.
Maintaining the Spheres of Influence
7.
Fighting the Cold War: The Offensive Strategies
8.
Collapsing Empires: The Cold War Battle for Hearts and Minds 1953-63
Part III. The Cold War of Peaceful Coexistence and the Rise of Multipolarity 1963-71
9.
The Eastern and Western Blocs in the 1960s
10.
The Vietnam War
11.
Other Regional Conflicts
Part IV. The Détente Era 1971-80
12.
An Era of Negotiations, 1971-73
13.
Stagflation and the Trials of Détente
14.
Détente in Decline, 1976-79
15.
The Return to Confrontation, 1979-80
Part V. From Confrontation to Communist Collapse, 1981-89
16.
Middle East Conflicts in the 1980s
17.
Instability in Latin America
18.
The Decline of the Cold War, 1985-89
Part VI. The Post-Cold War World Since 1990
19.
Europe and the Former Soviet Union
20.
U.S. Predominance and the Post-Cold War Disorder
21.
Stability and Instability in the Developing World
Conclusion
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