The Cold War: The Great Powers and their Allies

pt. 1 Overview -- 1 Cold War: an overview -- 2 strategic dimension of East-West competition -- pt. 2 East-West relations 1945-1991 -- 3 start of the Cold War -- 4 nadir of the Cold War, 1948-1953 -- 5 Khrushchev years -- detentes, challenges, crises -- 6 Vietnam War and other proxy conflicts of the 1960s and 1970s -- 7 Detente in Europe -- 8 United States, China and the World -- 9 rise and fall of detente in the 1960s and 1970s -- 10 Tension and the ending of the Cold War in the 1980s -- pt. 3 Europe West and East, and the Sino-Soviet split -- 11 Western Europe I: The political order -- 12 Western Europe II: France, Germany, Britain, and the USA -- 13 Western Europe III: The European Union -- 14 Splits in the communist world -- 15 Eastern Europe since 1957 -- pt. 4 Conclusion -- 16 Perspectives on the Cold War and its aftermath