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Defining Documents in American History: The Cold War (1945-1991)

Table of Contents

Publisher’s Note




Editor’s Introduction




Contributors




Postwar Cold War




Potsdam Agreement




Stalin’s Election Speech, 1946




Churchill’s “Iron Curtain” Speech




Truman Doctrine Speech




Speech on the Marshall Plan




“The Sources of Soviet Content”




Inter-American Treaty of Reciprocal Assistance (Rio Treaty)




Vyshinky’s Speech to the UN General Assembly




NATO Treaty




Memorandum on Lifting the Soviet Blockade




Dean Acheson on the “Loss” of China




Atomic Explosion in the USSR




International Control of Atomic Energy




NSC 68: "United States Objectives and Programs for National Security"




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




Statement by President Truman upon Signing the Mutual Security Act




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




“Atoms for Peace”




CIA Summary of the Overthrow of Premier Mossadeq of Iran




Balkan Pact




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




Sino-American Mutual Defense Treaty




Baghdad Pact




President Sukarno's Address at the Bandung Conference




Warsaw Pact




Khrushchev on the “Cult of Personality” and Its Consequences




Senator John F. Kennedy on America’s Stake in Vietnam




Resolution of Hungarian Student Protestors




Mao on the “Correct Handling of Contradictions among the People”




Launching of the Sputnik Satellite




Eisenhower on Science in National Security




“Communism in the Americas”




Fidel Castro’s Speech at Twenty-One Nations Conference




Nixon and Khrushchev: The Kitchen Debate




Antarctic Treaty




The Red Scare




Executive Order 9835




Testimony of J. Edgar Hoover before the House Un-American Activities Committee




Ronald Reagan’s Testimony before the House Un-American Activities Committee




Testimony regarding Communist Investigations




Testimony of Whittaker Chambers (Excerpted)




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




“Declaration of Conscience”




Rosenberg Case Excerpts




In the Matter of J. Robert Oppenheimer




Censure of Senator Joseph McCarthy




Escalation And DéTente




The U2 Spy-Plane—Excerpts of a Speech by Khrushchev




Eisenhower’s Farewell Address




Telegram from the US Mission in Berlin regarding the Sealing-off of East Berlin




Fidel Castro: Second Declaration of Havana




JFK: “We Choose to Go to the Moon” .




JFK: Report on the Soviet Arms Buildup in Cuba




JFK: “A Strategy of Peace”




JFK: “Ich bin ein Berliner”




Televised Interview with President Kennedy




Limited Test Ban Treaty




On Alleged Soviet and Cuban Connections with Lee Harvey Oswald




The Gulf of Tonkin Incident




LBJ: “Peace Without Conquest”




Treaty on the Exploration and Use of Outer Space




The “Two Thousand Words” Manifesto




Nixon on the “Silent Majority” and “Vietnamization”




Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty




Kissinger Memo regarding Policy toward Chile




Nuclear Accidents Measures Agreement




Documents Relating to Normalization of Relations between the United States and the People's Republic of China




Biological Weapons Convention




Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty




Jackson-Vanik Amendment




Helsinki Accords (Excerpt)




Margaret Thatcher’s “Iron Lady” Speech




US Contingency Plans in Light of Cuban-Soviet Intervention in Angola




Charter 77




SALT II




End Game




Documents Relating to the Soviet Invasion of Afghanistan




CIA Cable on the Situation in Poland




Ronald Reagan's “Evil Empire” Speech




Able Archer ‘83: The Soviet “War Scare”




Ronald Reagan on the Strategic Defense Initiative




Ronald Reagan's “Tear Down This Wall” Speech




Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty




Mikhail Gorbachev's UN Speech




US Embassy Cables Concerning the Crackdown on Tiananmen Square Protesters




Egon Krenz Letter to Mikhail Gorbachev




Gorbachev’s Farewell Address




Appendixes




Chronological List




Web Resources




Bibliography