Table of Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction: First Steps to Détente
Prologue: The US, USSR, and Berlin, 1953–1958
Chapter 1: "A Free City, Khrushchev's November Proposals, Allied Response, and a Foreign Minister's Conference," November 1958–May 1959
Chapter 2: "Seeking a Summit," Khrushchev's US Visit, Western Heads of State Meeting, the U-2 incident, and the Paris Summit June 1959–December 1960
Chapter 3: “Vienna & the Wall," Kennedy's First Months,, Vienna Summit, the Acheson Plan, and the Berlin Wall, January–August 1961
Chapter 4: “Salami Tactics,” Allied Collapse, Kennedy's Private Approach, and Showdown at Checkpoint Charlie, September - December 1961
Chapter 5: "Vital Interests," Thompson-Gromyko in Moscow, Rusk-Gromyko in Geneva, and Rusk-Dobrynin in Washington, Geneva ENDC Sessions, and Soviet Missiles in Cuba, January–August 1962
Chapter 6: "A Slippery Slope," New Harassment in Berlin, the Cuban Missile Crisis, Allied Estrangement, and the Limited Test Ban Treaty, September 1962–November 1963
Summary: American Diplomacy in the Berlin Crisis
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