The Cold War: The Great Powers and their Allies
, by Dunbabin,J.P.D.Note: Supplemental materials are not guaranteed with Rental or Used book purchases.
- ISBN: 9780582423985 | 0582423988
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- Copyright: 12/4/2007
The Cold War was an extraordinary struggle for strategic world domination between the world's two great superpowers, the USA and USSR. For four decades it divided the world, and during this time all other issues of international concern were sucked into its orbit. No other global division was able to transcend the rift it created.
J.P.D. Dunbabin, formerly Reader in International Relations at Oxford University, has published over a wide range of topics including British and international history, The League of Nations and the United Nations
Abbreviations | p. xiii |
Preface to the Second Edition | p. xvii |
Preface to the First Edition | p. xix |
Editorial Foreword | p. xxi |
Overview | |
The Cold War: an overview | p. 3 |
The causes of the Cold War: rival interpretations | p. 4 |
The initial phase of the Cold War | p. 14 |
Stalin's closing years, 1948-53 | p. 19 |
East and Southeast Asia | p. 20 |
Khrushchev | p. 22 |
Johnson and Nixon | p. 24 |
Carter and Reagan | p. 26 |
Gorbachev and the end of the Cold War | p. 27 |
The strategic dimension of East-West competition | p. 30 |
The defence of Western Europe | p. 31 |
Soviet policy towards Western Europe: NATO and Warsaw Pact military doctrines, and WTO exercises | p. 36 |
Reactions to Soviet build-up: NATO's 1979 response | p. 42 |
US nuclear superiority in the 1950s and 1960s | p. 43 |
'Healey's theorem' | p. 44 |
Evolution of US strategic doctrine: 'Mutual Assured Destruction' | p. 45 |
Nuclear Test Ban Treaty 1963 | p. 47 |
The Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty 1968 (NPT) | p. 49 |
Attempts to secure nuclear weapons | p. 50 |
Strategic Arms Limitation Talks: ABM and SALT I Treaties 1972 | p. 57 |
MIRVs: vulnerability of US ICBMs and implications for 'extended deterrence' | p. 58 |
US interpretations of Soviet intentions | p. 62 |
SALT II negotiations 1972-9 | p. 63 |
Cruise and Pershing missiles in Europe | p. 68 |
The 'Strategic Defense Initiative' (SDI), the 1985 Geneva and 1986 Reykjavik summits, and the 1987 INF treaty | p. 70 |
Gorbachev's defence cuts and the Paris Charter 1990: START I and II | p. 73 |
East-West relations 1945-1991 | |
The start of the Cold War | p. 79 |
Stalin's Popular Front policy | p. 79 |
Stalin's wartime move into Eastern Europe | p. 84 |
A 'sphere of influence' in Eastern Europe? | p. 86 |
Stalin and the post-war world | p. 90 |
Stalin's pursuit of incremental gains | p. 93 |
Approaches to Stalin - Churchill, Roosevelt, Truman | p. 96 |
The Potsdam Conference and the atom bomb | p. 100 |
Romania: London (September) and Moscow (December 1945) Foreign Ministers Councils | p. 101 |
The slide towards Cold War, 1946: Stalin's election speech, Kennan's 'long telegram', Churchill's Fulton speech, Wallace's critique and dismissal | p. 106 |
The evolution of British policy, 1945-7: Attlee's reservations overcome | p. 110 |
Iran and Turkey | p. 113 |
The Baruch Plan, and the European peace treaties 1946-7 | p. 117 |
The German question and possible Soviet perspectives | p. 119 |
The German question, 1945-6 | p. 124 |
British withdrawal from Greece and Turkey-the Truman Doctrine, 1947 | p. 129 |
Stalin's suggested Anglo-Soviet Treaty, 1947 | p. 131 |
The Moscow Foreign Ministers Council, 10 March to 24 April 1947 | p. 132 |
Marshall Aid and the division of Europe | p. 134 |
The Szklarska Poreba Conference and foundation of 'Cominform' (September 1947), French strikes (November-December 1947), Italian elections (April 1948) and covert US involvement | p. 138 |
The London Council of Foreign Ministers meeting, November-December 1947 | p. 140 |
The nadir of the Cold War, 1948-1953 | p. 142 |
West German currency reform 1948 | p. 143 |
The Berlin Blockade 1948-9 | p. 144 |
The North Atlantic Treaty 1949 | p. 147 |
Consolidation of communist rule in Eastern Europe | p. 149 |
Stalin's growing radicalism, 1947-8; Stalin and Greek communist risings | p. 153 |
China, 1945-9 | p. 155 |
Anglo-American covert propaganda and action, 1947-8; Attempts to destabilise Albania, 1949-53; Possible connections with the East European purges of 1949-53 | p. 162 |
American responses to the 'loss of China'; The extension of 'containment' to Indo-China, 1949-50 | p. 165 |
NSC-68 and US rearmament | p. 168 |
Korea, 1945-50: Stalin authorises the invasion of South Korea, 1950 | p. 170 |
The Western response | p. 176 |
The UN invasion of North Korea, China's intervention and US responses 1950-51 | p. 178 |
Ceasefire talks 1951-3 and the 1953 armistice | p. 184 |
Implications of the Korean War: 'Limited war'; China's relations with the USSR and the USA; Taiwan; The Japanese peace and security treaties, 1951-2 | p. 186 |
German rearmament - the European Defence Community, 1952 | p. 188 |
Stalin's 1952 'offer' of German reunification | p. 191 |
Stalin's final years | p. 194 |
The Khrushchev years - detentes, challenges, crises | p. 199 |
Stalin's death and detente | p. 199 |
Western approaches | p. 200 |
German reunification - Adenauer, Churchill, and Beria | p. 203 |
The Geneva Conference on Korea and Indo-China 1954 | p. 209 |
The Chinese offshore islands crisis 1954-5 | p. 214 |
French opposition to the European Defence Community | p. 217 |
Austrian independence 1955 | p. 219 |
Khrushchev's foreign policy, 1955 | p. 220 |
The Geneva Summit 1955 | p. 222 |
East-West summits and their limitations | p. 224 |
Eisenhower's 1953 decision against 'roll-back'; US quiescence during the 1953 Berlin and 1956 Polish disturbances | p. 226 |
The 1956 Hungarian and Suez crises and detente | p. 228 |
Khrushchev and the policy of 'peaceful coexistence' | p. 231 |
Implications of Soviet aid to, and trade with, the Third World | p. 235 |
The USSR and Egypt 1955-6 | p. 237 |
The Eisenhower Doctrine, 1957 | p. 239 |
Jordan, Syria and the Lebanon 1957-8 | p. 241 |
The Iraqi revolution 1958 | p. 243 |
Soviet-Egyptian coolness 1959 | p. 245 |
The Chinese offshore islands crisis 1958 | p. 245 |
Khrushchev's view of the international scene 1957-8 | p. 248 |
The Berlin question 1958-9 | p. 249 |
Khrushchev's visit to the USA 1959 | p. 252 |
The Paris Summit and the U2 incident 1960 | p. 253 |
The Vienna Summit 1961 | p. 257 |
The Berlin Wall and its sequel, 1961-2 | p. 260 |
Latin America in the 1950s: the Cuban revolution | p. 264 |
The Bay of Pigs 1961 | p. 266 |
The Cuban missile crisis 1962 | p. 267 |
Khrushchev's position after the crisis | p. 273 |
The Vietnam War and other proxy conflicts of the 1960s and 1970s | p. 276 |
Cuba and Latin America in the 1960s | p. 277 |
The former Belgian Congo | p. 278 |
Africa in the 1960s: The OAU; The Nigerian civil war; Kenya; Ghana | p. 281 |
The Middle East | p. 282 |
India and Pakistan | p. 283 |
Indonesia | p. 285 |
Indo-China | p. 289 |
Laos | p. 290 |
South Vietnam 1954-64 | p. 293 |
The 'Gulf of Tonkin' incident and Congressional resolution, 1964 | p. 298 |
USA bombs North Vietnam and commits ground troops to South Vietnam 1965 | p. 299 |
The Tet Offensive (January 1968) and its consequences | p. 303 |
Nixon's plans to end the war 1968-9 | p. 306 |
Vietnamisation | p. 308 |
The Lon Nol coup in Cambodia | p. 309 |
The 1971 South Vietnamese attempt to cut the Ho Chi Minh trail, and the 1972 North Vietnamese offensive | p. 311 |
Secret negotiations and the ceasefire agreement 1973; US inability to enforce it; The communist offensive of 1975 and the fall of Saigon | p. 312 |
Reasons for the US failure; The war's impact on the USA | p. 316 |
Southeast Asia since 1975 | p. 317 |
Detente in Europe | p. 322 |
De Gaulle: 'Europe from the Atlantic to the Urals' | p. 322 |
West German Ostpolitik before 1969 | p. 325 |
Brandt's Ostpolitik | p. 327 |
Consequences of Ostpolitik | p. 331 |
The United States, China and the World | p. 334 |
US attitudes to China 1950-68 | p. 334 |
Sino-American rapprochement 1968-72 | p. 338 |
China's new alignment and its consequences | p. 342 |
Implications for Japan | p. 345 |
China and Vietnam in the 1970s; The 1979 war | p. 346 |
China's relations with the USA and USSR in the 1980s | p. 349 |
China in the 1980s; Tiananmen and the Western response | p. 351 |
China, the US-Chinese relationship, and Taiwan since the 1990s | p. 354 |
The rise and fall of detente in the 1960s and 1970s | p. 359 |
Strained US-Soviet relations 1964-7; The Glassboro Summit 1967; The shift towards detente 1968 | p. 359 |
The Moscow Summit of 1972 | p. 365 |
The 'Moscow detente', US views and Soviet foreign policy | p. 368 |
The Helsinki Final Act 1975 | p. 377 |
US-Soviet competition in the Middle East | p. 379 |
US-Soviet trade and detente; The Jackson-Vanik amendment | p. 383 |
Soviet restraint after the 1973 'oil shock' and the Portuguese revolution | p. 384 |
Soviet intervention in Angola 1975-6 and its implications for detente | p. 385 |
Further strains on detente: Shaba I and II and the Somali-Ethiopian war | p. 389 |
Growing US criticism of detente in the mid-1970s | p. 391 |
Soviet contempt for Carter | p. 392 |
Soviet invasion of Afghanistan 1979; Carter's reaction | p. 393 |
Tension and the ending of the Cold War in the 1980s | p. 397 |
East-West tension | p. 397 |
Reagan's originality | p. 399 |
1981-4: years of tension; 'Operation RYAN' and the November 1983 ABLE ARCHER exercise | p. 401 |
Reagan and Gorbachev | p. 405 |
Gorbachev's policies 1985-8 | p. 409 |
Summitry and negotiation, 1985-8; 'Regional problems' - the Gulf, Afghanistan, Cambodia, Central America, Angola | p. 414 |
The transformation of Eastern Europe, 1989 | p. 421 |
German reunification 1989-90 | p. 423 |
The Treaty on Conventional Forces in Europe (November 1990); The USSR's weakness, troubles and collapse in 1991 | p. 431 |
Europe West and East, and the Sino-Soviet split | |
Western Europe I: The political order | p. 437 |
The liberal political order | p. 437 |
The challenge of communism: the French and Italian Communist Parties | p. 438 |
Military takeovers in Greece and Turkey | p. 443 |
Algerian settlers and the army overthrow the Fourth Republic; De Gaulle re-establishes Paris's control | p. 444 |
Consolidation of French political stability under the Fifth Republic | p. 446 |
Threats from the right to the Italian political system; The troubles of the 1970s | p. 447 |
Post-war economic growth | p. 449 |
Western Europe II: France, Germany, Britain, and the USA | p. 451 |
Marshall Aid 1947-52; European Payments Union, 1950 | p. 451 |
The Schuman Plan (1950) and the establishment of the ECSC; The EDC | p. 453 |
A European Common Market 1955-8 | p. 456 |
Adenauer and France | p. 457 |
Franco-German relations since 1963 | p. 463 |
Britain and European integration 1945-59 | p. 466 |
Britain's applications for EEC membership, vetoed by de Gaulle in 1963 and 1967, successful in 1973; Wilson and Thatcher renegotiate terms; Developments since 1984 | p. 470 |
NATO | p. 473 |
The US-UK 'special relationship' | p. 480 |
De Gaulle and the Anglo-Saxons, 1958-68 | p. 489 |
US-French relations since 1969 | p. 493 |
Western Europe III: The European Union | p. 498 |
De Gaulle and the 'Luxembourg compromise' 1966 | p. 498 |
The Common Agricultural Policy | p. 499 |
The 'Single European Act' 1985; Schengen; Airline deregulation; The draft Directive on services, 2004-6 | p. 503 |
The advent of a common currency, the 'euro' | p. 507 |
Debates over the EU's architecture; Difficulties over the adoption of the Maastricht and Nice Treaties and of the draft EU Constitution | p. 511 |
The Community's external influence, economic and diplomatic | p. 515 |
The Community's external influence - the attraction of new members | p. 519 |
Splits in the communist world | p. 525 |
East European Communist Parties and the USSR in the immediate post-war period | p. 526 |
Tito's break with Stalin | p. 527 |
Soviet-Yugoslav relations 1953-74 | p. 534 |
'Tito-ism' and East European purges | p. 537 |
Changes in Soviet policy 1953-6 | p. 539 |
Revolutionary ferment in Poland 1953-6; Gomulka comes to power | p. 540 |
The Hungarian rising 1956; Soviet intervention and installation of Kadar; Repression 1956-61 | p. 543 |
Sino-Soviet relations to 1957 | p. 547 |
Khrushchev's 1958 and 1959 visits to Beijing; Polemics, Soviet sanctions, and 'relative reconciliation', 1960-61; Mao's 1962 decision to 'compete with [Soviet] revisionism for leadership'; Open breach in 1963 | p. 552 |
The conduct, nature and effects of the Sino-Soviet dispute | p. 556 |
Eastern Europe since 1957 | p. 562 |
Failure to gain economic integration through CMEA; East European trade with the USSR; Hungarian economic reforms | p. 563 |
The Prague Spring | p. 564 |
The Brezhnev Doctrine and the Helsinki Final Act (1975) | p. 570 |
Poland 1970-81 | p. 572 |
A general crisis of communism in Eastern Europe, 1989? The Soviet attitude | p. 577 |
Poland 1982-9 | p. 579 |
Hungary 1987-90 | p. 581 |
East Germany 1989-90 | p. 583 |
Bulgaria, 1989 and after | p. 587 |
Czechoslovakia 1989-90 | p. 589 |
Romania, 1989 and after | p. 590 |
Eastern Europe's transition to EU membership; Slovakia | p. 593 |
The break-up of Yugoslavia | p. 595 |
Bosnia, civil war (1992-5) and after | p. 599 |
Kosovo 1998-9; Macedonia 2001 | p. 603 |
Ex-Yugoslavia and Albania | p. 605 |
Conclusion | |
Perspectives on the Cold War and its aftermath | p. 611 |
Guide to further reading | p. 619 |
Index | p. 641 |
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