American imperialism and the New Manifest destiny, 1897-1900; Theodore Roosevelt and the search for world order, 1900-1913; Woodrow Wilson and the diplomacy of idealism - prologue to entry into World War I, 1913-1917; World War I and the League of Nations, 1917-1921; America's independent internationalism, 1921-1933; the coming of World War II, 1933-1939; from Europe to Pearl Harbor, 1939-1941; wartime diplomacy and the origins of the Cold War, 1941-1950; Cold War and containment in Europe and the Near East, 1945-1950; Cold War and containment in East Asia, 1950-1953; containment continued - the Eisenhower years, 1953-1961; containment at the brink - Kennedy and Cuba, 1961-1963; containment in collapse - Johnson and Vietnam, 1963-1969; Vietnamization through detente - a new containment, 1969-1977; the new isolationism - Carter and the diplomacy of human rights, 1977-1981; Cold War II - Reagan and the revival of containment, 1981-1989; the end of the Cold War...and after, 1989-.
