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The Cold War

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by Robert J. McMahon


  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

  For the benefit of digital users, indexed terms that span two pages (e.g., 52–53) may, on occasion, appear on only one of those pages.

  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

  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

 

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