Origins of the Cold War 1941–1949 (Seminar Studies)

✍ Scribed by Martin McCauley

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2021
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 313
• Edition: 5
• Category: Library

✦ Table of Contents

Cover
Endorsements
Half Title
Series Page
Title Page
Copyright Page
Table of
Contents
List of illustrations
Preface
Chronology
Who’s who
Maps
PART I: The background
1. The background
Socialism before 1917
Rus to Russia
The United States of America before 1914
Europe
The United States of America after 1914
Russia
President Woodrow Wilson
The Marxists
The October Revolution and Lenin’s Revolution from above
The impact of the October Revolution on Europe and the rest of the world
Stalin emerges as the leader, then autocrat and then despot
The United States and the Soviet Union before 1941
The United Kingdom’s relations with the Soviet Union
Soviet foreign policy in the 1930s
Was there an alternative to the Molotov–Ribbentrop pact?
Operation Barbarossa (Red Beard), 22 June 1941
PART II: Descriptive analysis
2. Conflict
The Second Front
Poland
3. Operation Unthinkable and Operation Pincher: World War III?
Could the Soviet Union have occupied Western and Southern Europe in 1945?
4. Atomic diplomacy
5. Eastern Europe
Poland
Hungary
East Germany (German Democratic Republic)
Czechoslovakia
Romania
Bulgaria
Yugoslavia
Albania
British policy in the Balkans
Greece
US policy in the region
6. The Middle East
Turkey
Iran
7. East Asia and Indo-China
China
Korea
Vietnam
Laos
Malaya
8. Bretton Woods, the IMF and the World Bank
US capital for the Soviet Union?
9. Conflict over Germany and the Soviet Union in a new light
The Soviet Union in a new light
10. Decisions which led to division
Containment
11. The Truman Doctrine and the Marshall Plan
12. The Soviet response
The Cominform
Tito expelled
The Berlin Blockade
13. Espionage
Political
Military and industrial
14. Culture wars
Hollywood and the fear of the Reds
Germany East and West
Propaganda
Enticing the US into war with Germany
Churchill, Korda and the power of Hollywood
15. Who was responsible for the Cold War?
The orthodox or traditional view
The revisionist view
The post-revisionist interpretation
Post 1991
16. The United Nations and the concept of collective security
The Iran crisis
The Palestinian crisis
The Berlin Blockade
PART III: Assessment
17. Was it all inevitable?
PART IV: Documents
Further reading
References
Index