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Tables of Contents for The Columbia Guide to the Cold War
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Acknowledgments
xi
Introduction
xiii
PART ONE Narrative Overview
1
96
The Cold War and Its Historians
3
13
Scholars Debate the Cold War
6
10
The Cold War Begins: 1945-1953
16
20
Yalta, Hiroshima, and the End of World War II
17
4
The Origins and Evolution of Containment, 1945-1949
21
10
The Soviet Atomic Bomb, the Fall of China, and NSC 68
31
1
The Korean War
32
1
The Cold War at Home
33
3
From the Thaw to the Brink: 1953-1962
36
16
The Thaw: 1953-1955
36
3
The ``New Look'' and Peaceful Coexistence
39
1
Hungary and Suez
40
2
Sputnik and the Arms Race
42
1
The Cold War in the Third World
43
3
From Eisenhower to Kennedy
46
2
Berlin and the Berlin Wall
48
1
Cuba and the Missle Crisis of 1962
48
2
The Sino-Soviet Split
50
2
Vietnam and Detente: 1962-1975
52
17
The Vietnam War
52
9
Detente
61
6
Detente at Its Peak
67
2
The New Cold War: 1976-1984
69
12
The Decline of Detente
69
7
Ronald Reagan and the New Cold War
76
5
The End of the Cold War: 1985-1990
81
16
Gorbachev, Perestroika, and the Cold War
82
4
The Cold War Ends
86
5
Notes
91
6
PART TWO The Cold War A to Z
97
84
PART THREE Concise Chronology
181
22
PART FOUR Resources
203
4
Introduction: Looking for Resources
205
2
Section I. Topics
207
104
General Histories
207
4
Origins
211
9
Soviet-American Relations
220
3
U.S. Foreign Policy: Overviews
223
4
Soviet Foreign Policy: Overviews
227
3
Truman and Containment
230
5
Eisenhower, Dulles, and the ``New Look''
235
3
Kennedy and Flexible Response
238
2
The Johnson Administration (Excluding Vietnam)
240
1
The Nixon and Ford Administrations
241
2
The Carter Administration
243
3
Reagan: From the New Cold War to Negotiation
246
2
Bush and the End of the Cold War
248
1
Stalin
248
1
Khrushchev and Peaceful Coexistence
249
1
The Brezhnev Era (Including Andropov and Chernenko)
250
2
Gorbachev and the End of the Cold War
252
1
The Korean War
253
2
Vietnam
255
12
Cuba and the Cuban Missile Crisis
267
2
Nuclear Weapons, Arms Control, and Military Policy
269
6
Western Europe
275
4
Eastern Europe/Soviet Bloc
279
2
The Middle East
281
4
The People's Republic of China
285
2
Japan
287
1
The Third World
288
7
Oil and Other Economic Issues
295
1
Espionage and Covert Operations
296
3
The Cold War at Home
299
5
Terrorism
304
1
The Fall of the Soviet Union
304
1
Legacies
305
2
Propaganda
307
1
Science and Computers
307
1
Historiography
308
3
Section II. Memoirs and Biographies
311
10
Memoirs
311
4
Biographies
315
6
Section III. Bibliographies, Reference Works, and Primary-Source Collections
321
6
Bibliographies
321
1
Reference Works
321
2
Primary-Source Collections
323
4
Section IV. Journals, Projects/Archives and Presidential Libraries
327
3
Journals
327
1
Projects and Archives
328
1
Presidential Libraries
329
1
Section V. Electronic Resources
330
5
Websites
330
3
CD-ROMs/Microfiche
333
2
Section VI. Films and Novels
335
12
Films
335
9
Novels
344
3
Appendix: The Costs of the Cold War
347
4
Index
351