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1 online resource (2 volumes (xv, 545 pages).) |
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Defining documents in American history |
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Defining documents in American history (Salem Press)
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| Contents |
Volume 1. 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 -- 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 |
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Volume 2. 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 ; Egon Krenz Letter to Mikhail Gorbachev ; Gorbachev's Farewell Address -- Appendixes. Chronological List ; Web Resources ; Bibliography ; Index |
| Summary |
Offers in-depth analysis of a broad range of historical documents and historic events related to the Cold War era, starting with Potsdam Accords in 1945 at the end of World War II and Chuchill's famous Iron Curtain speech in 1946, delivering a thorough examination of the Cold War and its effect on the U.S. from 1945 to 1991 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 519-528) and index |
| Notes |
Edition statement supplied by publisher |
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Cold War -- Sources
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World politics -- 1945-1989 -- Sources
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HISTORY -- United States -- State & Local -- General.
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Diplomatic relations
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History -- Sources
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Politics and government
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World politics
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United States -- Politics and government -- 1945-1989 -- Sources
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United States -- Foreign relations -- Soviet Union -- Sources
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Soviet Union -- Foreign relations -- United States -- Sources
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| Subject |
Soviet Union
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United States
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Sources
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Shally-Jensen, Michael, editor.
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| ISBN |
1619258595 |
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9781619258594 |
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9781619258587 |
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1619258587 |
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