Referenced Documents

Chapter 2 – Marxism-Leninism Communist Roots of the Cold War to the Eve of the Second World War—1848 to 1939

Chapter 3 - The Cold War Builds From the Hitler-Stalin Pact to the Iron Curtain 1939 to 1950

Chapter 4 – U.S. “Containment” Strategy from Truman to Johnson - 1950 to 1968

Chapter 5 – U.S. “Détente” Strategy from Nixon to Ford - 1969 to 1977

Chapter 6 – Carter’s “Détente” Confusion, Soviet Violations, and Catalysts for Change - 1977 to 1981

Chapter 7 – The Revolution Begins: The 1980 Election Campaign and the Reagan Coalition

Chapter 8 – Setting the New Cold War Strategy: The First Term - Statements and Decisions

Chapter 9 – The Strategy Gains Force: The Second Term

Chapter 10 - Reagan Combines U.S. Defense and Arms Control Strategies

Chapter 11- Intermediate Nuclear Force (INF) Deployments and "Zero Option" vs. "Nuclear Freeze"

Chapter 12 - Strategic Offensive: Modernization, START Reductions, Nuclear Deterrence and Testing

Chapter 13 - Strategic Defense: SDI, MAD, ASATs, Civil Defense

Chapter 14 - NATO-Warsaw Pact Conventional and CBW Forces and Arms Control

Chapter 15 - Soviet Arms Treaty Violations

Chapter 16 - Reagan’s Freedom Strategy: Key Freedom Speeches, Public Diplomacy, Supporting Anti-Communist Resistance

Chapter 17 – Taking on Soviet Imperialism in Afghanistan

Chapter 18 - Taking on Soviet-Cuban Imperialism in Latin America and Africa

Chapter 19 - Taking on Soviet Imperialism in Poland and Eastern Europe

Chapter 20 - Taking on the Intelligence Wars and the Soviet Espionage Threat