Rise to globalism: American foreign policy since 1938

The twisting path to war

The war in Europe

The war in Asia

The beginnings of the Cold War

The Truman Doctrine and the Marshall Plan

Containment tested

Korea

Eisenhower, Dulles, and the irreconcilable conflict

From Hungary and Suez to Cuba

Kennedy and the new frontiers

Vietnam : paying the cost of containment

Nixon, Détente, and the Debacle in Vietnam

America in the Middle East and Africa

Carter and human rights

Reagan and the evil empire

The end of the Cold War

Bush and the Gulf War

Clinton and democratic enlargement

Clinton and the new post Cold War order

The tragedy of September 11, 2001

After the attack and into Iraq.