pt. I. The origins of the Cold War, 1945-1950. The Yalta Conference, February 1945 ; The Potsdam Conference, July-August 1945 ; The atomic bombing of Hiroshima, August 1945 ; Stalin's election speech, February 1946 ; Churchill's Iron Curtain speech, March 1946 ; Thee Baruch and Gromyko plans for control of atomic weapons, 1946 ; The Truman Doctrine, 1947 ; The Marshall Plan, 1947 ; George F. Kennan, "The sources of Soviet conduct," 1947 ; The founding of the Cominform, 1947 ; The Communist coup in Czechoslovakia, February 1948 ; The Treaty of Brussels, 1948 ; The Cuminform expulsion of Tito, 1948 ; The NATO Alliance, 1949 ; Acheson on the Communist triumph in China, 1949 ; Mao proclaims the People's Republic of China, October 1, 1949 ; The Soviet-Chinese Friendship Treaty, February 1950
pt. II. The global confrontation, 1950-1960. McCarthy on "Communism" in the U.S. government, 1950 ; Acheson on the American defense perimeter in Asia, 1950 ; NSC-68 : American Cold War strategy, 1950 ; The Korean War, 1950-1953 ; Dulles on "massive retaliation," 1954 ; the Geneva Conference, 1954 ; The SEATO Alliance, 1954 ; The Warsaw Pact, 1955 ; Khrushchev on peaceful coexistence, 1956 ; Khrushchev's secret speech on Stalin and his crimes, 1956 ; The Hungarian rebellion, 1956 ; The Suez crisis, 1956 ; The Eisenhower Doctrine, 1957 ; Europe's common market : the Treaty of Rome, 1957 ; The Rapacki Plan, 1958 ; The U-2 affair, 1960 ; Castro on the Cuban Revolution, 1960
pt. III. Crisis and conflict, 1960-1969. Kennedy's Inaugural Address, 1961 ; The Berlin crisis, 1961 ; The Cuban Missile Crisis, October 1962 ; Kennedy's "Peace Speech" at American University, June 1963 ; Kennedy's Berlin Speech, June 1963 : "Ich bin ein Berliner" ; The Nuclear Test Ban Treaty, August 1963 ; The Sino-Soviet split, 1960-1963 ; The Gulf of Tonkin Resolution, 1964 ; Lin Biao, "Long live the victory of people's war," 1965 ; Lyndon Johnson and the Vietnam War, 1965-1968 ; The Nuclear Non-proliferation Treaty, July 1968 ; The Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia, August 1968 ; The Brezhnev Doctrine, 1968 ; The Soviet-Chinese border conflict, 1969
pt. IV. The era of détente, 1969-1979. The Nixon doctrine, 1969 ; The Berlin accords, September 1971 ; Nixon's China visit : the Shanghai communique, February 1972 ; The ABM Treaty and SALT I, 1972 ; The U.S. withdrawal from Vietnam, January 1973 ; The Vladivostok Summit, 1974 ; The Jackson-Vanik Amendment ; The Helsinki Final Act, 1975 ; Carter on human rights, 1977 ; Peace between Egypt and Israel, 1977-1979 ; The normalization of U.S.-Chinese relations, 1978-1979 ; The SALT II Agreement, 1979
pt. V. The renewal of the Cold War, 1979-1985. The Euromissile controversy, 1979 ; The Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, December 1979 ; The Carter Doctrine, January 1980 ; Reagan's anti-Soviet rhetoric, 1981-1983 ; Reagan's arms control proposals, November 1981 ; The Polish imposition of martial law, December 1981 ; Andropov's peace offensive, 1982 ; Reagan's "Star Wars" speech, 1983 ; The nuclear freeze resolution, 1983 ; The KAL 007 incident, 1983 ; The Soviet Olympic boycott, 1984
pt. VI. The end of the Cold War, 1985-1991. The Geneva Summit, 1985 ; The Reykjavik Summit, 1986 ; Reagan's 1987 Berlin speech : "Tear down this wall" ; Gorbachev's new thinking on international relations ; The INF Treaty, December 1987 ; The Soviet withdrawal from Afghanistan, 1988-1989 ; Gorbachev's UN address, December 1988 ; The opening of the Berlin Wall, November 1989 ; NATO's London Declaration on the end of the Cold War, July 1990 ; The Kohl-Gorbachev agreement on German unification, July 1990 ; The CFE Treaty, November 1990 ; The START Treaty, July 1991 ; The attempted coup in the USSR, August 1991 ; Gorbachev's resignation speech, December 1991.