1. CHAPTER 32
THE COLD WAR AND DECOLONIZATION

2. Prelude to Decolonization
Asia
The Middle East and Africa
The United Nations: Midwife for National Independence Movements

3. The Cold War: 1945-1953 Postwar Settlements Stalin’s Postwar Policies
The Cold War in Europe to 1953
The Cold War in China and Korea:

4. Bipolar Crises and National Liberation: 1953-1962
The Middle East and Africa
The New Russian Team
De-Stalinization
Peaceful Coexistence and the Expansion of Global Conflict

5. The Soviet-American Domination and the Age of the Proxy Wars
The Americanization of the Vietnam Civil War
Repercussions of the U.S. Failure
Détente and Decay in the Soviet Union
The USSR’s “Vietnam”: Afghanistan

6. M.S. Gorbachev and the End of Bipolarity, 1985-1991
The Gorbachev Revolution: The Domestic Phase
Gorbachev’s Contribution to the End of the Cold War

7. Postscript: The Yeltsin and Putin Transition