What is a document? -- How to read a document -- Note on sources and interpretation -- Early antagonism -- Origin of the atomic bomb -- Tensions and strategies -- The Truman Doctrine -- The Marshall Plan -- A Soviet bomb -- The China White Paper -- NSC-68 -- War in Korea -- The anticommunist crusade -- Hollywood and HUAC -- Chambers vs. Hiss -- The Rosenbergs on trial -- Senator Joe McCarthy -- Cultural responses -- Army vs. McCarthy -- To the brink -- Eisenhower's inaugural address -- Liberation of captive peoples -- The domino theory -- Unstable peace -- Kennedy's inaugural address -- Bay of Pigs -- Standing up to the Soviets -- The Cuban Missile Crisis -- Picture essay -- The atom unleashed -- Catastrophe in Vietnam -- French colonial rule -- War in Indochina -- The Geneva Conference -- Nation building in Vietnam -- Horrors of war -- Antiwar movement -- Vietnamization -- Reunification -- An end at last -- The Nuclear Test Ban Treaty of 1963 -- SALT treaties -- Reagan's nuclear strategy -- An end to the Cold War -- Timeline.
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