Table of Contents

PART ONE: BACKGROUND. 1. The Cold War in Perspective. Cold War I. Russia Says No to American Money. Moscow's View of the World. Brinkmanship. The Cuban Missile Crisis. Detente. Cold War II and the End of the Cold War. The Characteristics of the Cold War. PART TWO: DESCRIPTIVE ANALYSIS 2. Cold War I: 1949-1953 The Berlin Blockade. China. NSC-68. The War in Korea. 3. To the Brink and Back: 1953-1969. The Search for a New Relationship. Khrushchev Takes Over. The Geneva Summit. Khrushchev Attacks Stalin. The Hungarian Revolution. Asia. The Middle East. The Baghdad Pact. The Suez Crisis. The Eisenhower Doctrine. Other Third World States. Brinkmanship: Berlin. Brinkmanship: Cuba. The War in Vietnam. 4 Detente: 1969-1979. Forging a New Relationship. A New President and a New Approach. China Changes Sides. SALT. The German Problem Defused. The Middle East. The Agenda Changes as Ford takes Over. Africa. The Helsinki Accord. A New President Sows Confusion. Carter and Brezhnev Reach Agreement on SALT II But on Little Else. 5. Cold War II 1979-1985 Detente Fails to Satisfy American Aspirations. Carter's Mixed Record. Disasterous Decision Making in Moscow: Intervention in Afghanistan. Carter Brzezinski and Cold War II. A new president and a New Departure. The Superpowers Almost Reach Agreement. Andropov and Reagan: Missed Opportunities. Failure and Success for America. The Ground is Prepared for Better Relations With Russia. Reagan Improves Relations With China. 6. New Political Thinking and the End of the Cold War: 1985-1991. The New Political Thinking. The Gorbachchev-Reagan Summits. The Bush-Gorbachchev Relationship is Slow to Develop. Gorbachev and Europe: Our Common Home. Germany Unites. Gorbachev and Eastern Europe. Gorbachchev and China. Gorbachev's Domestic Difficulties Cause Problems for Bush. The Gulf War Leads to Joint Superpower Policy. Gorbachev's Problems Mount. The Last Summit. The Attempted Coup and After. PART THREE: ASSESSMENT The Twentieth Century: An Overview. Sources of Hostility Between the Superpowers. Why Did America Come to Guarantee West European Security? Why Did Russia and America Become Systematic Rivals? A Hard Lesson for the Superpowers: Empires Are Liabilities. Is there a Link Between Good Government and Economic Prosperity? Was the Growth of the Nuclear Arsenals Inevitable? Why Did the Cold War End? America's Changing Doctrine. Was the US an Imperialist Power? CHRONOLOGY. BIBLIOGRAPHY. INDEX.