1. Cold War Origins The Soviet Union and Communism The United States and Democracy Era preceding WWII WWII: Marriage of Convenience The Atomic Age

2. Marching to War Nazi-Soviet Pact and Poland Watchful Waiting: U.S. Isolation Arsenal of Democracy Lend Lease Invasion of the USSR December 7, 1941

3. Wartime Diplomacy Atlantic Charter The Fourteen Points and Four Freedoms Declaration of War: Axis and Allies Europe First Mobilization at Home

4. African Conferences Casablanca and Cairo The Big Three Battle of Stalingrad Second Front African Campaigns Soft Underbelly Strategy Mistrusting your ally

5. Teheran and Yalta Question of Poland Second Front Postwar Germany War in Asia Spoils of War D-Day Invasion

6. The U.N. and Potsdam San Francisco, Spring 45 FDR’s Death Potsdam: Waning days of the Alliance Unconditional Surrender The Bomb Postwar chessboard

7. The Cold War Europe in the Ashes Threat of Communism Rebirth via Marshall Plan Eastern Europe Iron Curtain

8. Containment Turkey and Greece Neutrality Abandoned Truman Doctrine Mr. X National Security Doctrine

9. Berlin Crisis A Divided City and Occupation Zones DeNazification Germany Awakening Stalin’s Gamble Truman’s Choices NATO