From Yalta To VietNam
American Foreign Policy In The Cold War

Publisher:  Penguin Books Ltd.
Year Published:  1967
Pages:  465pp   Resource Type:  Book
Cx Number:  CX6304

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Table of Contents

Acknowledgments
Preface

Part I: From Ally to Belligerent
Chronology
Introduction
1. Frictions and the Creation of the UN
2. The Old Relations and the New
3. The Dissolution of the Coalitions
4. Civil War in Greece
5. The Conflict Becomes Open
6. Reassessment

Part II: Leader of the Free World
Chronology
7. Containing Conspiracy
8. Containment into Liberation: Korea
9. Intervention in Vietnam
10. Coup in Guatemala
11. Retrospect on Early Containment
12. Counter-revolution in Cuba
13. The U.S. and the World Revolution

Part III: Under the Sword of Damocles
Chronology
14. The Division of Europe
15. The Atomic Bomb
16. East Europe: 1949-1956
17. Lippmann, Kennan and Sputnik
18. Dogmas and Disengagement
19. The Failure to Make Peace
20. The Summit Collapse
21. Nuclear Strategies and the Missile Gap
22. Creating Situations of Strength
23. Tipping the Balance of Power
24. Showdown: The Cuban Crisis
25. Nuclear Armistice
26. The Unity of America's Cold War Programme

Notes
Bibliography
Index

Subject Headings

• Imperialism
• U.S. History
• Vietnam
• World War II