• The Soviet Union and Communism
• The United States and Democracy
• Era preceding WWII
• WWII: Marriage of Convenience
• The Atomic Age

• Nazi-Soviet Pact and Poland
• Watchful Waiting: U.S. Isolation
• Arsenal of Democracy
• Lend Lease
• Invasion of the USSR
• December 7, 1941

• Atlantic Charter
• The Fourteen Points and Four Freedoms
• Declaration of War: Axis and Allies
• Europe First
• Mobilization at Home

• Casablanca and Cairo
• The Big Three
• Battle of Stalingrad
• Second Front
• African Campaigns
• Soft Underbelly Strategy
• Mistrusting your ally

• Question of Poland
• Second Front
• Postwar Germany
• War in Asia
• Spoils of War
• D-Day Invasion

• San Francisco, Spring 45
• FDR’s Death
• Potsdam: Waning days of the Alliance
• Unconditional Surrender
• The Bomb
• Postwar chessboard

• Europe in the Ashes
• Threat of Communism
• Rebirth via Marshall Plan
• Eastern Europe
• Iron Curtain

• Turkey and Greece
• Neutrality Abandoned
• Truman Doctrine
• Mr. X
• National Security Doctrine

• A Divided City and Occupation Zones
• DeNazification
• Germany Awakening
• Stalin’s Gamble
• Truman’s Choices
• NATO