Pt. 1. The Church and the challenge of communism Introduction
The first cold warriors
Pt. 2. The Roman Catholic Church in the Second World War
The Church and the Axis powers
The Church under Nazi occupation
The Church in the Balkans
The Church in the United States
The Soviet Union and the Catholic Church
The papacy and the Second World War
Pt. 3. Il dopoguerra : neither war nor peace
Papal leadership after the war
Early persecution in the Balkans
The Catholic majorities of East Central Europe
Catholics and European reconstruction
The Catholic Church and the occupation of Germany
Pt. 4. The Cold War begins
The martyrdom of Archbishop Stepinac
Vatican resistance to the division of Europe
The impossibility of Vatican neutrality
Communist consolidation and Catholic division
The religious Cold War : communist offensive
The religious Cold War : Catholic counter-offensive.