Taken from the Preface: "A real effort has been made in this volume to give a thorough-going exposition of the problems of the states of eastern Europe, in view of the greatly increased significance of their role during the past fifty years." Includes an index.

(Key Words: History, Europe, C.E. Black, E.C. Helmreich, World War II, United States, Yugoslavia, Woodrow Wilson, United Nations, Turkey, Syria, Sweden, Switzerland, Scandinavian States, Russia, Rome, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Prussia, Poland, Norway, NATO, Macedonia, Libya, London, League Of Nations, Japan, Italy, India, Hungary, Adolf Hitler, Greece, Germany, France, Geneva, Dwight D. Eisenhower, Egypt, Czechoslovakia, Denmark, Danubian States, Winston Churchill, Canada, Bulgaria, Berlin, Belgium, Austria-Hungary, Austria, Arab, Allies, Albania).