-- Europe and the USSR

-- Asia (except Vietnam)

-- Problem of nationalism and Cold War

-- Ike Characteristics

1. Minimalist Defense Budgets.

2. Capitalism is the Solution

3. Covert Operations

4. Advocated Arms Control

5. Alliances

--Historians View

1. Ike the Grandfather and Golfer

2. Ike the Mastermind

-- The New Look

1. Nuclear weapons and Air Power

2. Massive Retaliation

3. Brinksmanship

4. "Domino Theory"

Soviet Relations

-- Nikita Khrushchev

-- Weapons Build-Up

-- Alliances: NATO, SEATO, METO, CENTO--Whatever

-- Cold War Thaw: Geneva, July 1955

-- Stalin Denounced

-- Polish

-- Hungary Revolts, US Watches

-- Sputnik and American Weakness

-- Disengagement and Berlin

-- U2 Incident

Going to the Brink in Asia

-- Sino-Soviet Split

-- "mutual isolation"

-- Quemoy and Matsu

-- Threat of Nuclear Weapons

-- China Goes it Alone

Nationalism and Developing Nations

-- Conditions
    1. Volatile and Unaligned
    2. Superpower Difficulties
 

-- Middle East--Israel

-- Partition of Palistine

-- Recognition

-- War

-- Egypt

-- Nasser and US Negotiations

-- Seizing the Suez Canal

-- Soviet Alignment

-- Intervening in the Third World & the Rise of the CIA

-- Eisenhower Doctrine

-- Lebanon

-- Iran

-- Guatemala

Legacy