From the Book - [1st U.S. ed.].
The Cold War viewed as history
The enlargement of Moscow's empire at the end of World War II
The behavior of Moscow as a reflection of Russia's historic experience
American behavior as a reflection of experience opposite to that of the Russians
The creation, in 1945, of the power vacuums on either side of Russia into which it tended to expand
Russia's conquest of the Baltic states and East Poland in 1939-1940, and what Stalin's postwar intentions in eastern Europe may have been
The divergence between Russian and western views of the world that made postwar planning difficult
The tragedy of Poland, 1939-1945
The fall of Rumania, Hungary, Bulgaria, and Czechoslovakia
What happened in Yugoslavia, Albania, Germany, Greece, Itlay, and France at the end of the war
The defeat of Japan and the expansion of Russia in the Far East
The United States in search of a workable foreign policy
The Greek-Turkish crisis of 1947 and the proclamation of the Truman Doctrine
The Marshall Plan and Moscow's reaction to it
The success of the European recovery program in spite of Moscow's opposition
The creation of the Cominform
The real issue of the Cold War and its mythic formulations
The implications of atomic power
The formation of the western military alliance
The Far Eastern policy of the United States and its disasters up to 1950
Surprise attack in Korea and improvisation by the United States to meet it
The Korean War to the point where western success provokes Chinese intervention
The defection of Yugoslavia
Remobilization, rearmament, and McCarthyism in the United States
The movement toward west European unification
The situation at the beginning of the 1950s
The new administration in the United States and its adjustment to responsibility
The new administration and the problems of military policy
The extension of 'containment' to Asia and the beginning of American involvement in Indo-China.
