The Cold War A Post-Cold War History [Paperback]

• Thoroughly updated in light of new scholarship, including revised sections on ?President Nixons policies in Vietnam and President Reagans approach to U.S.-Soviet relations
• Features six all new counterparts sections that juxtapose important historical figures to illustrate the contrasting viewpoints that characterized the Cold War
• Argues that ?the success of Western capitalism during the Cold War laid the groundwork for the economic globalization and political democratization that have defined the 21^st?century
• Includes extended coverage of the Cuban Missile Crisis, the most dangerous confrontation of the nuclear age thus far

List of Illustrations ix

Preface and Acknowledgments xii

Prologue: Uneasy Allies, 1941–1945 1

1 Downward Spiral during the Truman–Stalin Years, 1945–1953 19

Issues in the Emerging Cold War 20

Images and Domestic Politics Harm Relations 28

Counterparts: George Kennan and Nikolai Novikov 30

Containment and Countercontainment, 1947–1949 34

The Most Dangerous Phase, 1950–1952 42

Conclusion 55

2 The Institutionalized Cold War, 1953–1962 58

The Cold War at Home 62

A Modest Improvement in East–West Relations, 1953–1955 70

The Second Dangerous Phase, 1956–1962 78

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