From Trust to Terror: The Onset of the Cold War, 1945-1950

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Norton, 1970 - 428 strani
Kap: Truman takes over; Poland, Germany; The agreement on German occupation policies. Dissensions become evident: Potsdam: an alienating experience; The accords begin to crumble; Divergences in and about Germany; The Russian intrusion into Iran; Three impinging occurrences; "We may be at war ... over Iran". The intruder: the Atomic bomb: The American quandary; The ardent conception. Unsettlement in the Center of Europe: The deepening divergence over German affairs; The quest for peace treaties; But no peace treaty with Germany. Opposing ideas and deepening divergence: The Atomic bomb: how to exercize the intruder; The quarrell over Germany worsens; A brief spell of euphoria; To the East and South: communism thrusts and prods. The communist thrust confronted: Decision passes to Washington; Truman confronts communism: march 1947; The Truman doctrine examined; The foreign ministers meet again, march-april 1947; Doctrine to program. To salvage Western Europe: the Marshall Plan: To salvage Western Europe; Marshall steps forward; Marshall's proposal: the response; Connectedly: what was to be done about China? The communist assault upon the Marshall program. The fateful spring of 1948 - East and West: To resuscitate Germany; Western initiatives: january into february 1948; The Coup in Czechoslovakia; Towards Western coalition: the spring of 1948; Frustrations and fractures in the communist realm; Plans for creating a German government. The dangerous crunch over Berlin; the unwritten accords about access; The dissolution of the four-power administration; The igniting monetary reform; The blocade and airlift under way; Diplomacy fades; The Soviet peripeteia. While Berlin was blocaded: Western initiatives; The American election;Towards a self-govering Germany; The NATO alliance is formed. The schism: Atom-haunted: The last meeting of the council of foreign ministers; Atomic energy: the default of the nations; Divided Germany; Divided Europe; Divided world; Not mutual.

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