Origins, 1917-1945 -- The Iron Curtain -- The division of Germany -- The Marshall Plan and NATO -- The United States and Japan, 1945-1965 -- The Korean War and the Sino-Soviet Alliance -- The Vietnam Wars, 1945-1975 -- Communism in Eastern Europe and China -- Technologies, weapons, and the arms race -- The integration of Western Europe -- Decolonization and the Cold War -- Latin America and the Cold War -- Cultures and mindsets -- Spies and covert operations -- The rise of détente -- The fall of détente -- Challenges to the Cold War: the 1980s -- The end of the Cold War -- Cold War legacies