Thank you for downloading this Simon & Schuster eBook. Join our mailing list and get updates on new releases, deals, bonus content and other great books from Simon & Schuster. CLICK HERE TO SIGN UP or visit us online to sign up at eBookNews.SimonandSchuster.com CONTENTS LIST OF ILLUSTRATION THE MAPS 1 The New World Order 2 The Hinge: Theodore Roosevelt or Woodrow Wilson 3 From Universality to Equilibrium: Richelieu, William of Orange, and Pitt 4 The Concert of Europe: Great Britain, Austria, and Russia 5 Two Revolutionaries: Napoleon III and Bismarck 6 Realpolitik Turns on Itself 7 A Political Doomsday Machine: European Diplomacy Before the First World War 8 Into the Vortex: The Military Doomsday Machine 9 The New Face of Diplomacy: Wilson and the Treaty of Versailles 10 The Dilemmas of the Victors 11 Stresemann and the Re-emergence of the Vanquished 12 The End of Illusion: Hitler and the Destruction of Versailles 13 Stalin’s Bazaar 14 The Nazi-Soviet Pact 15 America Re-enters the Arena: Franklin Delano Roosevelt 16 Three Approaches to Peace: Roosevelt, Stalin, and Churchill in World War II 17 The Beginning of the Cold War 18 The Success and the Pain of Containment 19 The Dilemma of Containment: The Korean War 20 Negotiating with the Communists: Adenauer, Churchill, and Eisenhower 21 Leapfrogging Containment: The Suez Crisis 22 Hungary: Upheaval in the Empire 23 Khrushchev’s Ultimatum: The Berlin Crisis 1958–63 24 Concepts of Western Unity: Macmillan, de Gaulle, Eisenhower, and Kennedy 25 Vietnam: Entry into the Morass; Truman and Eisenhower 26 Vietnam: On the Road to Despair; Kennedy and Johnson 27 Vietnam: The Extrication; Nixon 28 Foreign Policy as Geopolitics: Nixon’s Triangular Diplomacy 29 Detente and Its Discontents 30 The End of the Cold War: Reagan and Gorbachev 31 The New World Order Reconsidered ACKNOWLEDGMENTS NOTES PICTURE CREDITS INDEX To the men and women of the Foreign Service of the United States of America, whose professionalism and dedication sustain American diplomacy List of Illustration Page Woodrow Wilson addresses the Paris Peace Conference, January 25, 1919. 6 Page Washington’s Farewell Address, manuscript detail. Inset: George 10 Washington. Engraving after portrait by Gilbert Stuart. Page The United Nations General Assembly. 17 Page Left: Theodore Roosevelt, August 1905. Right: Woodrow Wilson, July 29 1919. Page Left: William of Orange. Right: Cardinal Richelieu. 56 Page Congress of Vienna, 1815. 78 Page Left: Otto von Bismarck. Right: Napoleon III. 103 Page Benjamin Disraeli. 137 Page Emperor William II and Tsar Nicholas II. 168 Page Left to right: Paul von Hindenburg, former Emperor William II, and Erich 201 Ludendorff, 1917. Page Left to right: David Lloyd George, Vittorio Emmanuele Orlando, Georges 218 Clemenceau, and Woodrow Wilson at Versailles, 1919. Page Left to right: Clemenceau, Wilson, Baron Sidney Sonnino, and Lloyd 246 George after signing the Treaty of Versailles, June 28, 1919. Page Hans Luther, Aristide Briand, and Gustav Stresemann (right) with 266 German delegates at the League of Nations. Page Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini in Munich, 1937. 288 Page Joseph Stalin and aides at first session of Supreme Soviet. Deputies, from 332 left: Nikolai Bulganin, Andrei Zhdanov, Stalin, Kliment Voroshilov and Nikita Khrushchev, January 26, 1938. Page Vyacheslav Molotov signs Russo-German Nonaggression Pact, August 350 1939. In background are Joachim von Ribbentrop and Stalin. Page Franklin Roosevelt and Winston Churchill during Atlantic Charter 369 meeting, August 1941. Page Churchill, Roosevelt, and Stalin at Yalta, February 1945. 394 Page Left: Churchill, Truman, and Stalin at Potsdam, 1945. Right: Clement 423 Attlee, Truman, and Stalin at Potsdam, August 1945. Page John Foster Dulles with dignitaries after signing the Austrian State Treaty, 446 May 1955. Page Dulles at the Korean front, June 1950. 473 Page Dwight D. Eisenhower and Churchill in London, 1959. 493 Page Khrushchev and Gamal Abdel Nasser in Moscow, 1958. 522 Page Hungarian street fighters during Budapest uprising, October 1956. 550 Page John F. Kennedy and Khrushchev in Vienna, June 1961. 568 Page Left: Kennedy and Harold Macmillan in Bermuda, December 1961. Right: 594 Charles de Gaulle and Konrad Adenauer in Bonn. Page French infantry at Dien Bien Phu, April 1954. 620 Page Lyndon B. Johnson, December 1965. 643 Page Henry Kissinger and Le Due Tho in Paris, January 1973. 674 Page Leonid Brezhnev and Richard Nixon, June 1973. 703 Page Gerald Ford with Anatoly Dobrynin (left) and Leonid Brezhnev (right) at 733 Vladivostok, November 1974. Page Mikhail Gorbachev and Ronald Reagan in Geneva, November 1985. 762 Page Flags of the United States, Great Britain, France, Germany, China, Russia, 804 Japan.