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The Cold War as history, by Louis J. Halle

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Includes bibliographical references (pages 419-421) and index

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The Cold War as history

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by Louis J. Halle

The Cold War viewed as history -- The enlargement of Moscow's empire at the end of World War II -- The behavior of Moscow as a reflection of Russia's historic experience -- American behavior as a reflection of experience opposite to that of the Russians -- The creation, in 1945, of the power vacuums on either side of Russia into which it tended to expand -- Russia's conquest of the Baltic states and East Poland in 1939-1940, and what Stalin's postwar intentions in eastern Europe may have been -- The divergence between Russian and western views of the world that made postwar planning difficult -- The tragedy of Poland, 1939-1945 -- The fall of Rumania, Hungary, Bulgaria, and Czechoslovakia -- What happened in Yugoslavia, Albania, Germany, Greece, Italy, and France at the end of the war -- The defeat of Japan and the expansion of Russia in the Far East -- The United States in search of a workable foreign policy -- The Greek-Turkish crisis of 1947 and the proclamation of the Truman Doctrine -- The Marshall Plan and Moscow's reaction to it -- The success of the European recovery program in spite of Moscow's opposition -- The creation of the Cominform : the return to conscription in the United States and the conclusion of the Brussels Pact -- The real issue of the Cold War and its mythic formulations, the Berlin Blockade and its failure -- The implications of atomic power, the reluctance of the West to re-arm -- The formation of the western military alliance, culminating in NATO -- The Far Eastern policy of the United States and its disasters up to 1950 -- Surprise attack in Korea and improvisation by the United States to meet it -- The Korean War to the point where western success provokes Chinese intervention -- The defection of Yugoslavia, the image that Americans developed of Stalin's empire, deadlock and arms race -- Remobilization, rearmament, and McCarthyism in the United States -- The movement toward west European unification, and the restoration of German sovereignty -- The situation at the beginning of the 1950s -- The new administration in the United States and its adjustment to responsibility -- The new administration and the problems of military policy -- The extension of 'containment' to Asia and the beginning of American involvement in Indo-China -- The United States takes France's place in Indo-China -- The death of Stalin, the succession, and the attitude of the United States toward these events -- The attempted reversal of Stalin's policy, leading to the Polish and Hungarian crises of 1956 -- The four-way division of the Cold War, manifested at the Geneva Conference of 1955, the visit of Bulganin and Khrushchev to South Asia, the extension of the Cold War to the Middle East, and the muddle that culminated in the Suez crisis -- Russian triumphs in the arms race, leading to a more dynamic diplomacy in 1958 -- The resumption of Moscow's attempt to capture West Berlin -- Khrushchev's visit to the United States to make peace, its failure, and the collapse of the summit conference of May 1960 -- The break between Moscow and Peking, Moscow's abortive intervention in the Congo -- Khrushchev's attempt to reshape the United Nations, the advent of the Kennedy administration, Moscow's third attempt to prize the Western powers out of Berlin -- Khrushchev's gamble in Cuba, its failure, and the ending of a chapter in the history of mankind -- Epilogue: The embroilment of the United States in Asia as a consequence of the Cold War, and the prospects for the future