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The Cold War : a history through documents

Title
The Cold War : a history through documents / compiled and edited by Edward H. Judge, John W. Langdon.
ISBN
0136465633
9780136465638
0137612893
9780137612895
Published
Upper Saddle River, N.J. : Prentice Hall, ©1999.
Physical Description
xviii, 263 pages ; 24 cm
Summary
A collection of more than 130 speeches, agreements, messages, declarations, etc. edited, excerpted, and arranged in chronological order.
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
July 10, 2018
Contents
pt. I. The origins of the Cold War, 1945-1950. The Yalta Conference, February 1945 ; The Potsdam Conference, July-August 1945 ; The atomic bombing of Hiroshima, August 1945 ; Stalin's election speech, February 1946 ; Churchill's Iron Curtain speech, March 1946 ; Thee Baruch and Gromyko plans for control of atomic weapons, 1946 ; The Truman Doctrine, 1947 ; The Marshall Plan, 1947 ; George F. Kennan, "The sources of Soviet conduct," 1947 ; The founding of the Cominform, 1947 ; The Communist coup in Czechoslovakia, February 1948 ; The Treaty of Brussels, 1948 ; The Cuminform expulsion of Tito, 1948 ; The NATO Alliance, 1949 ; Acheson on the Communist triumph in China, 1949 ; Mao proclaims the People's Republic of China, October 1, 1949 ; The Soviet-Chinese Friendship Treaty, February 1950
pt. II. The global confrontation, 1950-1960. McCarthy on "Communism" in the U.S. government, 1950 ; Acheson on the American defense perimeter in Asia, 1950 ; NSC-68 : American Cold War strategy, 1950 ; The Korean War, 1950-1953 ; Dulles on "massive retaliation," 1954 ; the Geneva Conference, 1954 ; The SEATO Alliance, 1954 ; The Warsaw Pact, 1955 ; Khrushchev on peaceful coexistence, 1956 ; Khrushchev's secret speech on Stalin and his crimes, 1956 ; The Hungarian rebellion, 1956 ; The Suez crisis, 1956 ; The Eisenhower Doctrine, 1957 ; Europe's common market : the Treaty of Rome, 1957 ; The Rapacki Plan, 1958 ; The U-2 affair, 1960 ; Castro on the Cuban Revolution, 1960
pt. III. Crisis and conflict, 1960-1969. Kennedy's Inaugural Address, 1961 ; The Berlin crisis, 1961 ; The Cuban Missile Crisis, October 1962 ; Kennedy's "Peace Speech" at American University, June 1963 ; Kennedy's Berlin Speech, June 1963 : "Ich bin ein Berliner" ; The Nuclear Test Ban Treaty, August 1963 ; The Sino-Soviet split, 1960-1963 ; The Gulf of Tonkin Resolution, 1964 ; Lin Biao, "Long live the victory of people's war," 1965 ; Lyndon Johnson and the Vietnam War, 1965-1968 ; The Nuclear Non-proliferation Treaty, July 1968 ; The Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia, August 1968 ; The Brezhnev Doctrine, 1968 ; The Soviet-Chinese border conflict, 1969
pt. IV. The era of détente, 1969-1979. The Nixon doctrine, 1969 ; The Berlin accords, September 1971 ; Nixon's China visit : the Shanghai communique, February 1972 ; The ABM Treaty and SALT I, 1972 ; The U.S. withdrawal from Vietnam, January 1973 ; The Vladivostok Summit, 1974 ; The Jackson-Vanik Amendment ; The Helsinki Final Act, 1975 ; Carter on human rights, 1977 ; Peace between Egypt and Israel, 1977-1979 ; The normalization of U.S.-Chinese relations, 1978-1979 ; The SALT II Agreement, 1979
pt. V. The renewal of the Cold War, 1979-1985. The Euromissile controversy, 1979 ; The Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, December 1979 ; The Carter Doctrine, January 1980 ; Reagan's anti-Soviet rhetoric, 1981-1983 ; Reagan's arms control proposals, November 1981 ; The Polish imposition of martial law, December 1981 ; Andropov's peace offensive, 1982 ; Reagan's "Star Wars" speech, 1983 ; The nuclear freeze resolution, 1983 ; The KAL 007 incident, 1983 ; The Soviet Olympic boycott, 1984
pt. VI. The end of the Cold War, 1985-1991. The Geneva Summit, 1985 ; The Reykjavik Summit, 1986 ; Reagan's 1987 Berlin speech : "Tear down this wall" ; Gorbachev's new thinking on international relations ; The INF Treaty, December 1987 ; The Soviet withdrawal from Afghanistan, 1988-1989 ; Gorbachev's UN address, December 1988 ; The opening of the Berlin Wall, November 1989 ; NATO's London Declaration on the end of the Cold War, July 1990 ; The Kohl-Gorbachev agreement on German unification, July 1990 ; The CFE Treaty, November 1990 ; The START Treaty, July 1991 ; The attempted coup in the USSR, August 1991 ; Gorbachev's resignation speech, December 1991.
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