Importance of 1939-41

-- Europe First

-- Practical Wilsonianism

-- Unconditional Surrender

-- Free Trade

-- End to Imperialism

Dynamics of the Alliance (1941-43)

-- Timing of the Second Front:
 

-- Guilt

-- Boundaries of Eastern Europe

-- Domestic Politics and Soviet Demands

-- Teheran (Nov, 1943)

Planning the Peace: 1943-45

-- US control of International Organizations

-- World Bank

-- International Monetary Fund

-- The UN & Dumbarton Oaks: Fall 1944

Cracks in the Facade: Yalta and Potsdam

-- Tragedy or Betrayal? Yalta

-- Goals of the Big 3

-- Military and Diplomatic Realities

-- Poland

-- Greece, France and Reparations

-- Colonial Empires

-- Post-Conference Optimism

-- Spheres of Influence

-- Postwar Criticism

Legacies

1) Human and material destruction

2) Imperial Decline/Colonial Rebellions

3) Rise of the Soviets

4) The American Century

5) International Structure

6) Executive Control of Foreign Policy