Christopher Thorne, The Issue of War: States, Societies, and the Far Eastern Conflict of 1941–1945 (New York, 1985).
Dimitri Volkogonov, Stalin (New York, 1991).
Chapter 2: The origins of the Cold War in Europe, 1945–50
Carolyn Eisenberg, Drawing the Line: The American Decision to Divide Germany, 1944–1949 (New York, 1996).
Michael J. Hogan, The Marshall Plan: America, Britain, and the Reconstruction of Western Europe, 1947–1952 (New York, 1987).
Melvyn P. Leffler, A Preponderance of Power: National Security, the Truman Administration, and the Cold War (Stanford, Calif., 1992).
Eduard Mark, ‘Revolution by Degrees: Stalin’s National-Front Strategy for Europe, 1941–1947’, Cold War International History Project Working Paper #31 (2001).
Marc Trachtenberg, A Constructed Peace: The Making of the European Settlement, 1945–1963 (Princeton, 1999).
Daniel Yergin, Shattered Peace: The Origins of the Cold War and the National Security State (Boston, 1978).
Chapter 3: Towards ‘Hot War’ in Asia, 1945–50
William S. Borden, The Pacific Alliance: United States Foreign Economic Policy and Japanese Trade Recovery, 1947–1955 (Madison, Wis., 1984).
Bruce Cumings, The Origins of the Korean War (2 vols, Princeton, 1981 and 1990).
John W. Dower, Embracing Defeat: Japan in the Wake of World War II (New York, 1999).
Sergei N. Goncharov, John W. Lewis, and Xue Litai, Uncertain Partners: Stalin, Mao, and the Korean War (Stanford, Calif., 1993).
Chen Jian, Mao’s China and the Cold War (Chapel Hill, NC, 2001).
Robert J. McMahon, The Limits of Empire: The United States and Southeast Asia since World War II (New York, 1999).
Michael Schaller, The American Occupation of Japan: The Origins of the Cold War in Asia (New York, 1985).
William Stueck, The Korean War: An International History (Princeton, 1995).
Chapter 4: A global Cold War, 1950–8
Gordon H. Chang, Friends and Enemies: The United States, China, and the Soviet Union, 1948–1972 (Stanford, Calif., 1990).
Saki Dockrill, Eisenhower’s New Look National Security Policy, 1953–61 (London, 1996).
Steven Z. Freiberger, Dawn over Suez: The Rise of American Power in the Middle East (Chicago, 1992).
Richard H. Immerman, John Foster Dulles (Wilmington, Del., 1999).
Wm Roger Louis and Roger Owen (eds), Suez 1956: The Crisis and its Consequences (New York, 1989).
Stephen G. Rabe, Eisenhower and Latin America (Chapel Hill, NC, 1988).
William Taubman, Khrushchev: The Man and his Era (New York, 2003).
Odd Arne Westad, The Global Cold War (Cambridge, 2007).
Chapter 5: From confrontation to détente, 1958–68
Pierre Asselin, Vietnam’s American War: A History (Cambridge, 2018).
Lawrence Freedman, Kennedy’s Wars: Berlin, Cuba, Laos, and Vietnam (New York, 2000).
Aleksandr Fursenko and Timothy Naftali, ‘One Hell of a Gamble’: Khrushchev, Castro, and Kennedy, 1958–1964 (New York, 1997).
Fredrik Logevall, Choosing War: The Lost Chance for Peace and the Escalation of the War in Vietnam (Berkeley, 1999).
Thomas G. Paterson (ed.), Kennedy’s Search for Victory (New York, 1989).
Robert B. Rakove, Kennedy, Johnson, and the Nonaligned World (New York, 2013).
Qiang Zhai, China and the Vietnam Wars, 1950–1975 (Chapel Hill, NC, 2000).
Chapter 6: Cold wars at home
Thomas Borstelmann, The Cold War and the Color Line: American Race Relations in the Global Arena (Cambridge, Mass., 2001).
Tony Judt, Postwar: A History of Europe Since 1945 (New York, 2005).
Peter J. Kuznick and James Gilbert (eds), Rethinking Cold War Culture (Washington, 2001).
Robert J. McMahon, The Cold War on the Periphery: The United States, India, and Pakistan (New York, 1994).
David Reynolds, One World Divisible: A Global History since 1945 (New York, 2000).
Michael S. Sherry, In the Shadow of War: The United States since the 1930s (New Haven, 1995).
Stephen J. Whitfield, The Culture of the Cold War (Baltimore, 1991).
John Young, Cold War Europe, 1945–89: A Political History (London, 1991).
Chapter 7: The rise and fall of superpower détente, 1968–79
Thomas Borstelmann, The 1970s: A New Global History from Civil Rights to Economic Inequality (Princeton, 2012).
H. W. Brands, Since Vietnam: The United States in World Affairs, 1973–1995 (New York, 1996).
John Lewis Gaddis, Strategies of Containment: A Critical Appraisal of Postwar American National Security Policy (New York, 1982).
Raymond L. Garthoff, Detente and Confrontation: American–Soviet Relations from Nixon to Reagan (Washington, 1985).
Henry Kissinger, White House Years (Boston, 1979).
David Reynolds, One World Divisible: A Global History since 1945 (New York, 2000).
Daniel J. Sargent, A Superpower Transformed: The Remaking of American Foreign Relations in the 1970s (New York, 2015).
Gaddis Smith, Morality, Reason, and Power: American Diplomacy in the Carter Years (New York, 1986).
Odd Arne Westad (ed.), The Fall of Detente: Soviet–American Relations during the Carter Years (Oslo, 1997).
Chapter 8: The final phase, 1980–90
Hal Brands, Making the Unipolar Moment: US Foreign Policy and the Rise of the Post-Cold War Order (New York, 2016).
David Cortright, Peace Works: The Citizen’s Role in Ending the Cold War (Boulder, Colo., 1993).
Robert D. English, Russia and the Idea of the West: Gorbachev, Intellectuals, and the End of the Cold War (New York, 2000).
Matthew Evangelista, Unarmed Forces: The Transnational Movement to End the Cold War (Ithaca, NY, 1999).
Raymond L. Garthoff, The Great Transition: American–Soviet Relations and the End of the Cold War (Washington, 1994).
Melvyn P. Leffler, For the Soul of Mankind: The United States, the Soviet Union, and the Cold War (New York, 2007).
Mary Elise Sarotte, 1989: The Struggle to Create Post-Cold War Europe (Princeton, 2009).
George P. Shultz, Turmoil and Triumph: My Years as Secretary of State (New York, 1993).
James Graham Wilson, The Triumph of Improvisation: Gorbachev’s Adaptability, Reagan’s Engagement, and the End of the Cold War (Ithaca, NY, 2014).
Index
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A
ABMs (anti-ballistic missiles) 124–126
Acheson, Dean 3–4, 10, 38–39, 44–45, 52, 73–74, 99, 116–117
Adenauer, Konrad 58, 110
Afghanistan 108, 138–141, 145–147, 157
Africa 65, 85–86, 105, 107–108, 130–131, 133–134, 136–137
African-Americans 114–115
agriculture 10–11
AIOC (Anglo-Iranian Oil Company) 65–66
Albania 61
Andropov, Yuri 139, 144–145
Angola 105, 133–134, 136–137, 145–146
Arbenz Guzman, Jacobo 72–73
arms control agreements 120–126, 135–138, 158
ASAT (anti-satellite weapons) 153–154
Aswan Dam project 67–68
Attlee, Clement 46–47
Australia 72
Austria 1–2, 7–8, 27, 61
Azores 7
B-1 bomber programme 143
Ba Maw 3
Baghdad Pact (1955) 67
balance of power 8–9, 20–22, 27–28, 38–39, 58–59, 75, 97–98
Bao Dai 48–49
Batista, Fulgencio 86–87
Bay of Pigs invasion (1961) 87–88
Belgium 33–34, 85–86, 110
Berlin 2–3, 32–33, 56, 79, 128–129
Berlin Wall 84–85, 159–162
Bevin, Ernest 29–31, 33–34
Bidault, Georges 29–31
Black, Eugene 67–68
Bohlen, Charles 51, 70
Brandt, Willy 128–129
Bretton Woods Conference (1944) 9, 128
Brezhnev, Leonid 120, 126–127, 129–130, 132, 136–139
Brezhnev Doctrine 159–162
Brezinski, Zbigniew 137
Britain 12–13 consumerism 110–111
decolonization 46–47
Geneva Conference 61–62
and Iran 65–67
and Malayan insurrection 48–49
NATO membership 33–34
and SEATO 72
and Suez crisis 67–69
and Vietnam War 96–97
war damage 2–3
and West Germany 31–33
withdrawal of aid to Greece and Turkey 28–29
British Empire 36
Brussels Pact (1948) 33–34
Bulgaria 22–24, 27, 61
Bundy, McGeorge 98
Burma 3, 7, 36, 46–49
Bush, President George H. W. 159, 162–163
C
Cambodia 145–146
Canada 7, 11, 28–29, 33–34, 96–97
Carter, President Jimmy 120, 135–142, 150
Carter Doctrine 140–141
Castro, Fidel 86–88, 90
Catholic Church 117–118, 152–153
Ceauşescu, Nicolae 159–162
Ceylon 46–47, 107
Chernayev, Anatoly 159–162
Chernenko, Constantin 154–155
Chiang Kai-shek 39–44, 79–80
Chicago Tribune 10
China 1–2, 11, 37, 39, 50–51, 67–68, 97–98, 123–125 civil war 39, 41–45
expansionism 47–48, 70–71
Korean war 53
President Nixon’s visit to 125
rising tensions with Soviet Union 121
Taiwan Strait standoff 79–81
and United States 137, 140–141
and Vietnam 49–50, 104
Churchill, Winston S. 2–3, 17–18, 20–27, 60–61
CIA (Central Intelligence Agency) 72–73, 85–87, 143, 145–146
civil rights movement 114–115
Cohen, Warren I. 51–52
colonialism 36, 78
Cominform (Communist Information Bureau) 32
communism Chinese 39, 41–45
and the Korean war 50–55
post-war spread of 79
spread in Southeast Asia 70, 97–99, 132–133
in the United States 116
Congo 56, 85–86, 105, 108–109, 116
consumerism 6, 110–112
Council of Foreign Ministers 23–24, 26–27, 29
covert operations 72–73, 79, 87–88, 96–97, 143
Cruise missiles 144–145, 150–152
Cuba 7, 56, 86–88 and Angola 133–134, 136–137
and Nicaragua 138
Cuban Missile Crisis (1962) 78, 88–94
Czechoslovakia 27, 56, 86–88
D
Dardanelles 29
decolonization 36, 46–47, 85–86, 103–106, 133–134
defectors 81–82, 84–85
defence plants (US) 118
de Gaulle, Charles 95, 99
Denmark 33–34
detente 120–139
displaced persons 2–3
Dobrynin, Ambassador Anatoly 136, 139
Dubček, Alexander 113
Dulles, John Foster 60–61, 67–68, 72, 79–80, 82
Dusseldorf 2–3
Dutch East Indies 36, 46–48
E
East Germany 14–15, 27, 32–33, 58–59, 61, 81–82, 84–85, 128–129; see also Germany
Eastern Europe 20, 22–24, 111–113, 159–162
economy Bretton Woods proposals 9
European 109–111
Japanese 38–39, 47–48
Southeast Asian 47–48
Third World 64
United States 6, 122, 127–128
Ecuador 7
EDC (European Defence Community) 58–59
Eden, Anthony 70
EEC (European Economic Community) 110
Egypt 62–63, 67–70, 107–108, 131–132
Eisenhower, President Dwight D. 57, 59–63, 66–67, 116–117 arms race 94–98
Berlin crisis 82–83
civil rights 114–115
and Cuba 86–87
and Taiwan 80–81
U-2 spy plane incident 83
warning about Laos 87
Engerman, David 15
espionage 116
Ethiopia 124–125
Eurasia 8–9, 27–28
EURATOM (European Atomic Energy Community) 110
Europe 108–114 anti-nuclear demonstrations in 150–152
detente and 129–130
opening of the Berlin Wall 159–162
pipeline deal 148–149
see also individual countries
European Coal and Steel Community 110
ExCom (Executive Committee of National Security Council) 88–89, 91–92
F
fallout shelter programme 83–84
Federal Republic of Germany see West Germany
Fiji Islands 7
Finland 17, 27, 129–130
Ford, President Gerald R. 120, 127, 129–134
France 2–3, 24–25, 27, 96–97, 114 colonies 46–47
and EDC 58–59
Geneva Conference 61–62
living standards 110–111
NATO membership 33–34
nuclear programme 95
student protests (1968) 114
and Suez 69
and Vietnam 48–50, 71–72
and West Germany 31–34, 110
G
Gaddis, John Lewis 13–14
Garthoff, Raymond A. 126
Geneva Conference (1955) 61–62
German Democratic Republic see East Germany
Germany 1–2, 7–8, 19–20, 96–97, 109–110 division of 32–33
invasions of Soviet Union 10–11, 17–18
Nazi–Soviet pact (1939) 16
occupation regime 12
rapprochement with France 110
rearmament 51, 58–59
reparations 20–22, 24–25
reunification 163
Ghana 107–108
glasnost (openness) 156
Gomulka, Wladyslaw 62
Gorbachev, Mikhail S. 146–148, 155–163
Graham, Reverend Billy 117–118
great power condominium 4–6
Greece 2–3, 28–29
Greenland 7
Grenada 145–146
Grew, Joseph 3–4
Gromyko, Andrei 80–82, 123–124
Guatemala 56, 72–73
Guomindang (Nationalist) Party 39, 41–43
H
H-bomb 73–75
Haig, Jr, Alexander M. 143
Hamburg 2–3
Heinrichs, Waldo 17–18
Helsinki agreements 129–130, 156–157
Hershey, John 2–3
Hiroshima 3, 25
Hiss, Alger 116–117
Hitler, Adolf 10–11, 16–17
Ho Chi Minh 47, 49–50, 71–72, 104
Hobsbawm, Eric 108–109
Hoover, President Herbert 17
Hopkins, Harry 12
Hull, Cordell 9
human rights 135–138, 157
Hungary 1–2, 22, 27, 32, 61–63, 117–118
I
ICBMs (intercontinental ballistic missiles) 73–74, 94, 124–126
Iceland 7, 33–34, 158
ideology 14–15, 122–123, 125, 140, 142
IMF (International Monetary Fund) 9
independence movements 105
India 3, 46–47, 97–98, 105–108
Indo-China 3, 35–36, 46–51, 56, 70–71, 86; see also individual countries
Indonesia 3, 47–49, 56, 72–73, 79, 104–105, 107–108
INF (Intermediate Nuclear Forces) Treaty (
1987) 158
intercontinental bombers 73–74
Inverchapel, Lord 31–32
Iran 27, 56, 65–67, 72–73, 107
Iraq 67, 79, 107
IRBMs (Intermediate Range Ballistic Missiles) 88–89, 91, 137
Israel 67–69, 131–132
Italy 1–2, 7–8, 27, 33–34, 96–97, 110–111
J
Jackson, Senator Henry 134–135
Japan 1–3, 11, 20–22, 25, 96–97 American occupation of 37–39
attack on Pearl Harbor 6–7
economic recovery 38–39, 47–48
Korea and 51
war damage 3
Jaruzelski, General Wojciech 148
Jervis, Robert 64
Johnson, President Lyndon B. 96–101, 122
Jupiter missiles 92–93
K
Kennan, George F. 26–27, 141
Kennedy, President John F. 84, 94–95 arms race 78–79
Bay of Pigs 87–88
and Berlin Wall 83–85
civil rights 114–115
Cuban Missile Crisis 87–93
and Vietnam 96–97, 99
Kennedy, Robert F. 92–93
Khomeini, Ayatollah Ruhollah 138–139
Khrushchev, Nikita S. 13–14, 83–85, 90, 94–95 arms race 75, 78
Berlin crisis 82–85
Cuban Missile Crisis 88–94
Taiwan Strait crisis 80
U-2 spy plane incident 83
Kim Il-sung 51–52
Kissinger, Henry A. 122–123, 125, 131, 133–135
Kohl, Chancellor Helmut 162–163
Korea 108
Korean War (1950–3) 35, 50–55, 57, 71, 76
Kosygin, Alexsei 122–124
Kuznetsov, Vassily 93–94
Kuznick, Peter J. and Gilbert, James 118
L
Lane, Arthur Bliss 2–3
Laos 86, 99
Lebanon 56, 69–70, 78
Leffler, Melvyn 60
Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich 14–15
Leningrad 10–11
Liberia 7
Life magazine 10
limited test ban treaties 94–95
living standards 111
Lloyd, Selwyn 59
Lumumba, Patrice 85–86
Lundestad, Geir 34
Luxembourg 33–34, 110
M
MacArthur, General Douglas 37–38, 53
McCarthy, Joseph 116–117
Macmillan, Harold 82, 110–111