Superpower Rivalry

The roots of the Cold War; 1945: the breakdown of the wartime alliance; The Soviet take-over of Eastern Europe; The Truman Doctrine and the Marshall Plan; American motives at the start of the Cold War; The Berlin Blockade and NATO; Review: the start of the Cold War; The Korean War; The Cuban missile crisis; The Cold War and the Middle East; The Vietnam War; Review: containing communism; Tito and Stalin; The Red Army in Budapest and Prague; Building the Berlin Wall; Solidarity; Gorbachev and the fall of the Soviet Empire; The arms race; Review: the Soviet Empire 1948-91.