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Defining Documents in American History: The 1950s (1950-1959)

Table of Contents

Publisher's Note




Editor's Introduction




Contributors




THE COLD WAR




NSC 68: “United States Objectives and Programs for National Security”




Report to the American People on Korea and US Policy in the Far East




“Old Soldiers Never Die”




United States–Japan Security Treaty




Statement by President Truman upon Signing the Mutual Security Act




Adlai Stevenson's Acceptance Speech at the 1952 Democratic National Convention




President Eisenhower—”The Chance for Peace”




Mutual Defense Treaty Between the United States and the Republic of Korea




A “New Look” at National Defense Policy




CIA Summary of the Overthrow of Premier Mossadeq of Iran




Geneva Accords on Indochina




President Eisenhower to the President of the Council of Ministers in Vietnam




Sino-American Mutual Defense Treaty




The Eisenhower Doctrine




Treaty of Rome




“Communism in the Americas”




Fidel Castro's Speech at the Twenty-One Nations Conference




Nixon and Khrushchev: The Kitchen Debate




Antarctic Treaty




ANTI-COMMUNISM




Senator Joseph McCarthy's Speech to the Republican Women's Club of Wheeling, West Virginia




“Declaration of Conscience”




Censure of Senator Joseph McCarthy




CIVIL RIGHTS




Hernandez v. Texas




Brown v. Board of Education




Women's Political Council Documents




Address to the Montgomery Improvement Association




Civil Rights Act of 1957




Executive Order 10730—Desegregation of Central High School, Little Rock, Arkansas




Cooper v. Aaron




SCIENCE, SOCIETY, AND MORE




William Faulkner's Nobel Prize Acceptance Speech




“Statement on the Nature of Race and Race Differences”




Excerpt from Sexual Behavior in the Human Female




“Atoms for Peace”




J. Robert Oppenheimer on Science and Society




Eisenhower Message to Congress Regarding a National Highway Program




On the Polio Vaccine Situation




National Review Mission Statement




“Disneyland One Year Old”




Launching of the Sputnik Satellite




Eisenhower on Science in National Security




Patent Application for “Miniaturized Electronic Circuits”




APPENDIXES



Chronological List


Web Resources


Bibliography