LECTURE #1

ORIGINS OF THE WESTERN WAY

1500 TO 1900

I. CLASSICAL LIBERALISM- ADAM SMITH (1723-90).

A. ORIGINS IN THE COMMERICAL REVOLUTION.

B. INDIVIDUALS COMPETING IN A FREE MARKET.

C. THE INVISIBLE HAND.

II. MODERN DEMOCRACY.

A. LIBERAL DEMOCRACY.

B. LAISSEZ-FAIRE GOVERNMENT.

III. DIFFICULTIES IN LIBERAL SOCIETIES.

A. THE POWER OF WEALTH.

B. SELFISHNESS AND THE LIBERAL ETHIC.

LECTURE #2

SOVIET VALUES

1848 TO 1928

I. SOCIALISM.

A. A REACTION TO LIBERAL SOCIETY.

B. COOPERATION AND SHARED WEALTH.

C. SOCIAL DEMOCRACY.

D. MARXISM AND HISTORY.

II. COMMUNISM IN RUSSIA- STALINISM.

A. DEBATES FOLLOWING LENIN’S DEATH.

B. JOSEPH STALIN (1878 – 1953).

C. THE DICTATORSHIP OF THE PROLETARIAT.

D. “SOCIALISM IN ONE COUNTRY”.

III. DIFFICULTIES.

A. NEGATIVE INCENTIVE.

B. LACK OF DISSENT OR CRITIQUE.

C. THE HUMAN COST.

LECTURE #3

THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE ATOMIC BOMB

1938 TO 1945

QUESTIONS FOR DISCUSSION

WHAT WERE EINSTEIN AND SZILARD CONCERNED

ENOUGH ABOUTTO WRITE A LETTER TO

PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT?

HOW DOES THE GOAL OF THE MANHATTAN

PROJECT CHANGE AFTER THE DEFEAT OF

GERMANY IN MAY OF 1945?

WHAT WAS SZILARD CONCERNED ENOUGH ABOUT

TO WRITE A LETTER TO PRESIDENT TRUMAN?

WHY MIGHT THE U.S. HAVE USED THE ATOMIC

BOMB TWICE ON JAPAN?

HOW WAS THE MANHATTAN PROJECT LINKED TO

THE SOVIET ATOMIC BOMB PROGRAM?

HOW DID THE ATOMIC BOMB CONTRIBUTE TO THE

BEGINNING OF THE COLD WAR?

LECTURE #4

PRELUDES

1917 TO 1945

I. THE SOCIALIST THREAT IN THE WEST.

A. LABOR VS. EMPLOYER.

B. THE TRADE UNION MOVEMENT.

C. THE WAGNER ACT, 1935.

II. THE RED THREAT.

A. CIVIL WAR IN RUSSIA.

B. THE PALMER RAIDS AND A RED SCARE.

III. U.S.-SOVIET DIPLOMATIC RELATIONS, 1921 – 41.

A. RECOGNITION.

B. AMERICAN NEUTRALITY IN WWII.

C. SOVIET NEURALITY IN WWII.

D. RED BEARDS AND A HARBOR OF PEARL.

IV. RELUCTANT ALLIES, 1941 – 45.

A. LEND-LEASE

B. SECOND FRONT.

C. SOVIET ‘HELP’ IN THE PACIFIC.

LECTURE #5

ORIGINS:

THE ROTTEN FRUITS OF YALTA, 1945-1948

I. THE ‘BIG THREE’ MEET IN YALTA, FEB. 1945.

A. GOALS AND DISCUSSIONS.

B. PLANS FOR THE POST-WAR WORLD.

1) SOVIET DESIGNS.

2) BRITISH CONCERNS.

3) AMERICAN HOPES.

II. THE DOMINOES FALL, 1945-1948.

A. NO FREE POLLS IN POLAND.

B. HUNGARY FOR FREEDOM?

C. A BLANK CZECH.

III. A NEW ‘BIG’ AT THE POTSDAM CONFERENCE.

A. DISCUSSIONS.

B. A NEW ATOMIC WORLD.

C. THE GERMAN QUESTION.

IV. THE BERLIN CRISIS, 1948- THE BEGINNING OF

THE COLD WAR?

LECTURE #6

CONTAINMENT AND THIRD WORLD, 1945-1953

I. THE POLICY OF CONTAINMENT.

A. MISTER ‘X’ AND CONTAINMENT.

B. THE MARSHALL PLAN.

C. N.A.T.O.

D. N. S. C. 68- APRIL 1950.

II. MAO TSE-TUNG’S PATH TO COMMUNISM.

A. CIVIL WAR AND THE LONG MARCH.

B. MAOISM.

C. THE VICTORY IN 1949.

III. THE KOREAN CONFLICT, 1950-53.

A. HISTORY TO 1950.

B. ‘GOOD’ KOREA, ‘BAD’ KOREA- AMERICAN

POLICY.

C. WAR AND STALEMATE, 1950-1953.

LECTURE #7

EUROPE

INTEGRATION AND CONFLICT, 1950s

I. TOWARDS A UNITED EUROPE.

A. POST-WORLD WAR II PROBLEMS.

B. DEMOCRATIC SOCIALISM.

C. WILLIAM BEVERIDGE (1879 – 1963).

II. ECONOMIC INTEGRATION.

A. COAL AND STEEL COMMUNITY, 1951.

B. EUROPEAN ECONOMIC COMMUNITY, 1957.

III. EUROPEAN CONCERNS.

A. ‘COCA-COLA’-ZATION OF EUROPE.

B. FRANCE AND N.A.T.O.

C. RED BRIGADES IN ITALY.

LECTURE #8

HOMEFRONTS IN THE 1950s

I. CHANGING LEADERSHIP IN THE SOVIET UNION.

A. DING DONG THE WICKED WITCH IS DEAD.

B. NIKITA KHUSHCHEV (1953-1964).

II. CONFLICT IN THE 1950s.

A. DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER (1953-1960).

B. ‘PEACEFUL’ COEXISTENCE.

C. THE U-2 INCIDENT.

III. REDS UNDER THE BEDS- RED SCARE, PART II.

LECTURE #9

COLD WAR REACHES A STALEMATE:

THE SPACE RACE

1950s TO 1980s

I. STALEMATES.

A. IN EUROPE.

B. IN ASIA.

II. THE SPACE RACE BEGINS.

A. WESTERN ASSUMPTIONS.

B. SPUTNIK, 1957.

C. SIDE-EFFECTS.

III. THE SPACE RACE BEGINS.

A. OTHER FIRSTS.

B. DIFFICULTIES.

C. THE MOON AND BEYOND.

LECTURE #10

THE TECHNOLOGY OF NUCLEAR WAR

I. THE BOMBS.

A. THE ATOM BOMB.

B. THE HYDROGEN BOMB.

II. THE ARMSRACE – DELIVERING THE BOMB.

A. LONG-RANGE BOMBERS.

B. INTERCONTINENTAL BALLISTIC MISSILES.

C. CRUISE MISSILES.

D. SUBMARINES.

LECTURE #11

KENNEDY AND CASTRO, 1961-1963

I. CASTRO AND REVOLUTION.

A. CUBA BEFORE 1959.

B. NATIONALISM TURNS TO COMMUNISM.

II. KENNEDY VS. CASTRO.

A. THE MISSILE GAP?

B. THE ‘PH’ SYNDROME AND CONTAINMENT.

C. BAY OF PIGS.

D. OPERATION MONGOOSE.

III. THE CUBAN MISSILE CRISIS, 1962

A. KENNEDY VS. KHRUSHCHEV.

B. “I SPY WITH MY LITTLE EYE...’

C. CASTRO’S PLAN AND KHRUSHCHEV’S FOLLY.

D. SEEDS OF THE END?

LECTURE #12

THE DOMINO THEORY AND SOUTHEAST ASIA

I. VIETNAM.

A. HO CHI MINH (1890 – 1969) AND A NATIONAL

LIBERATION MOVEMENT.

B. CONTAINMENT AND THE DOMINO THEORY.

C. STRATEGIC VALUE OF VIETNAM.

D. THE SUPERPOWER SUPERIORITY COMPLEX.

E. FAILURE TO LEARN FROM HISTORY.

II. ESCALATION.

A. MILITARY ADVISORS AND A DRAFTEE ARMY.

B. ‘TET’ OFFENSIVE, JANUARY 30, 1968.

C. WINNING THE BATTLES BUT LOSING THE

WAR.

D. SOVIET/CHINESE INVOLVEMENT.

III. EXTRACATION- PEACE WITH ‘HONOR’.

A. THE NOVACAINE: RICHARD M. NIXON.

B. LOOSENING THE TOOTH: VIETNAMIZATION.

C. UNIFICATION OF VIETNAM.

LECTURE #13

THE COLD WAR COMPLICATIONS

IN THE MIDDLE EAST:

ARAB-ISRAELI CONFLICT, 1948 TO 19981

I. THE CREATION OF ISRAEL IN 1948.

A. A LEGACY OF THE SECOND WORLD WAR.

B. AN EXAMPLE OF WESTERN IMPERIALISM.

II. THE COLD WAR AND NEVER-ENDING CONFLICT.

A. THE SUEZ WAR, 1956.

B. THE SIX DAY WAR, 1967.

C. YOM KIPPUR WAR, 1973.

III. WAR BY OTHER MEANS.

A. PALESTIAN LIBERATION ORG. (P.L.O.)

B. ORGANIZATION OF PETROLEUM EXPORTING

COUNTRIES (O.P.E.C.).

IV. TOWARDS PEACE.

A. ANWAR AL-SADAT (1918-81) AND MENACHEM

BEGIN (1913-92).

B. CAMP DAVID ACCORDS, SEPTEMBER 1979.

LECTURE #14

COLD WAR IN LATIN AMERICA,

1948 – 1985

I. SPECIAL RELATIONSHIP WITH LATIN AMERICA.

A. INTERVENTIONS, PRE-WW II.

B. CONTAINMENT.

C. THE CUBAN DISEASE.

II. COUP IN CHILE.

A. CHILE AS A SUCCESSFUL CUBA.

B. SALAVADOR ALLENDE (PRES. 1970 – 73).

C. AUGUST PINOCHET (PRES. 1973 – 90).

III. CIVIL WAR IN GUATEMALA.

A. UNITED FRUIT COMPANY.

B. JORGES UBICO (PRES. 1930 – 44).

C. JACOBO ARBENZ (PRES, 1951 – 54).

D. CIVIL WAR.

LECTURE #15

DÉTENTE IN 1970S

I. ERA OF DETENTE.

A. SOVIET BUILD-UP.

B. 1972 ABM TREATY.

C. OUTER SPACE TREATY.

II. S.A.L.T. TALKS.

A. SANITY AND M.A.D.’NESS.

B. SALT I/ SALT II.

LECTURE #16

THE COLD WAR IN AFRICA

1948 – 1991

I. SUPERPOWER POLICY TOWARDS AFRICA.

A. THE U.S. AND THE COLONIAL POWERS.

B. SOVIETS VIEWS AND PROPAGANDA.

II. TRAGEDY IN THE CONGO.

A. BELGIANS IN THE CONGO.

B. PATRICE LUMUMBA (1925 – 1961).

C. DICTATORSHIP.

III. CHOOSING THE GOOD GUYS IN SOUTH AFRICA.

A. APARTHEID, 1947.

B. SOWETO RIOTS, 1976.

C. ATOMIC SOUTH AFRICA

D. NELSON MENDELA, 1990.

LECTURE #17

NON-ALIGNED MOVEMENT

1955 - 1991

I. NON-ALIGNED MOVEMENT.

A. BANDUNG CONFERENCE, 1955.

B. BECOMING A MULTI-POLAR WORLD.

II. LOSING CHINA AGAIN.

A. CULTURAL REVOLUTION, 1964 -1976.

B. BORDER WAR OF 1969.

C. NIXON IN CHINA.

D. DENG XIAOPING (1904 – 1994)

E. “TO GET RICH IS GLORIOUS”.

III. INDIA.

A. NEHRU AND THE FIVE-YEAR PLANS.

B. CONFUSING THE UNITED STATES.

LECTURE #18

THE RISE OF FUNDAMENTALIST ISLAM

AT END OF THE 1970S

I. THE ENDS JUSTIFY THE MEANS IN IRAN.

A. AMERICAN AND SOVIET INTEREST.

B. THE CIA AND THE SHAH.

C. THE IRANIAN REVOLUTION, 1979.

II. SOVIET QUAGMIRE IN AFGHANISTAN, 1979 - 89.

A. AFGHANISTAN AND SOVIET INTERESTS.

B. SOVIET TACTICS AND ADVANTAGES.

C. TACTICS OF THE MUJAHIDEEN.

D. AN INTERESTING ANALOGY.

E. DOMESTIC AND INTERNATIONAL REACTIONS.

LECTURE #19

END OF DETENTE- HEATING THE COLD WAR

I. THE UNITED STATES IN 1981.

A. RONALD REAGAN.

B. RESTORING AMERICAN MORALE.

II. CONFLICTS AND FEARS.

A. KAL 007.

B. S.D.I.

III. THE SOVIET SITUATION.

A. STAGFLATION.

B. LEADERSHIP.

LECTURE #20

GORBACHEV AND THE END OF THE COLD WAR

I. MIKHAIL GORBACHEV (1931-).

A. ISSUES.

B. GLASNOST AND PERESTROIKA.

C. RESISTANCE.

II. GLASNOST.

A. AT HOME – CHERNOBYL (APRIL 26, 1985).

B. ABROAD – THE REYKJAVIK SUMMIT (10/1986).

III. PERESTROIKA.

A. FOREIGN INVESTMENT AND REFORM.

B. CATASTROPHE.

LECTURE #21

GLASNOST’S UNINTENDED SIDE-EFFECTS

I. EASTERN EUROPE IN THE COLD WAR.

A. THE EAST GERMAN BULWARK.

B. HUNGARIAN AND CZECH ATTEMPTS TO

REFORM.

C. THE CONTINUING POLISH PROBLEM.

II. GLASNOST AND PERESTROIKA IN EASTERN

EUROPE AT THE END OF 1989.

A. SEPTEMBER- SOLIDARITY WINS ELECTION

IN POLAND.

B. NOVEMBER- THE BERLIN WALL COMES

TUMBLING DOWN.

C. NOVEMBER- VELVET REVOLUTION IN

CZECHOSLOVAKIA.

D. DECEMBER- DEATH OF CEAUSESCU IN

ROMANIA.

LECTURE #22

WITHOUT EVEN A WHIMPER

THE FALL OF THE SOVIET UNION, 1990-1991

I. A UNION DIVIDED.

A. ECONOMIC COLLAPSE.

B. THE CONGRESS OF PEOPLE’S DEPUTIES.

C. FOREIGN INVESTMENT.

II. THE PERILS OF DEMOCRATIZATION.

A. LISTENING TO CONSTITUENTS.

B. DEMANDS FOR AUTONOMY.

C. ARTICLE 6.

III. COLLAPSE OF THE RUSSIAN MODEL.

A. AUGUST 1991 COUP.

B. A PRESIDENT WITHOUT A STATE.

LECTURE #23

THE 1990s

I. ISSUES IN THE NEW OLD COUNTRY – RUSSIA.

A. PRESIDENT BORIS YELTSIN, 1991 – 1999. B. PRIVATIZATION. C. WAR AND ECONOMIC COLLAPSE.

II. THE UNITED STATES OF EUROPE. A. EXPANSION OF N.A.T.O.

B. EUROPEAN UNION, 1995. C. THE EURO, 2002. D. SCHENGAN AREA, 2005. III. A SUPER POWER GOES ALONE. A. A VICTORY LAP? B. GULF WAR 1990-91. C. YUGOSLAVIA, 1992 – 1995. D. KOSOVO WAR, 1999.

LECTURE #24

PUTIN’S WORLD I. PART I, 1999 - 2008. A. RUSSIA AS SUPERPOWER. B. RUSSIA AS PETROPOWER. C. OLIGARCHS VS. APPARATCHIKI. II. INTERLUDE, 2008 – 2012. A. A PRESIDENT BY ANOTHER NAME. B. DMITRI MEDVEDEV. III. PART II FROM 2012. A. ELECTION. B. CONSOLIDATION OF CONTROL.

C. THE FATEFUL YEAR OF 2014.