Map 1.1. Selected Major Cold War Borders and Cities

Fig. 1.2. Protest in Leipzig, East Germany, October 1989. Photo by Chris Niedenthal/Time Life Pictures/Getty Images.

Fig. 2.1. President George Herbert Walker Bush, third from left, with his main advisers; from left to right, Chief of Staff John Sununu, Secretary of State James Baker, National Security Adviser Brent Scowcroft, Vice President Dan Quayle, Secretary of Defense Dick Cheney, Deputy NSC Adviser Robert Gates, Chai

Fig. 2.2. President François Mitterrand of France and Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher of the United Kingdom, circa 1986. Courtesy of Getty Images.

Fig. 2.3. Former West German security adviser Horst Teltschik in 2006. Courtesy of Joerg Koch.

Fig. 3.2. Ulrike Poppe, East German dissident, in October 1989. © Alain Nogues/Corbis Sygma.

Fig. 5.3. Gorbachev (center right) presides over the final signing of the 2 + 4 accord in Moscow by the six representatives of the countries involved (from left to right, the United States, the United Kingdom, the Soviet Union, France, the GDR, and the FRG) on September 12, 1990. Courtesy of Vitaly Armand/