Part I. Background (1890s-1914)
1. The United States steps out

Part II. American "neutrality" (1914-17)
2. Washington reacts (1914-15)
3. Pursuing a seat at the table (1916-17)
4. China and Latin America (1914-17)

Part III. Military intervention (1917-18). 5. "The whole force of the nation"
6. To the fourteen points address
7. Casting every selfish dominion down in the dust (1918)

Part IV. The Paris settlement (1919-20)
8. The future of Europe
and the world
9. The Treaty of Versailles
10. Americans in Paris : the Russian Revolution, the Royal Navy, power in the Western Hemisphere
11. Americans in Paris : the colonial world
12. Americans in Paris : the Adriatic and Shandong controversies
13. The campaigns for treaty ratification (summer 1919-20)

Part V. The Republicans try their hands (1921-24). 14. Latin America and China
15. Europe.