The Cold War : a history in documents /
Uses contemporary documents to explore the development of the Cold War struggle, the consequences in the 1950s and 1960s, and the lasting effects on American social and cultural patterns.
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Oxford ; New York :
Oxford University Press,
[2000]
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| Series: | Pages from history.
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Table of Contents:
- What is a document?
- How to read a document
- Early antagonism : Origin of the atomic bomb
- Tensions and strategies
- The Truman doctrine
- The Marshall plan
- A Soviet bomb
- The China white paper
- NSC-68
- War in Korea
- The anticommunist crusade : Hollywood and HUAC
- Chambers vs. Hiss
- The Rosenbergs on trial
- Senator Joe McCarthy
- Cultural responses
- Army vs. McCarthy
- To the brink : Eisenhower's inaugural address
- Liberation of captive peoples
- The domino theory
- Unstable peace
- Kennedy's inaugural address
- Bay of pigs
- Standing up to the Soviets
- The Cuban missile crisis
- The atom unleashed
- Catastrophe in Vietnam : French colonial rule
- War in Indochina
- The Geneva conference
- Nation building in Vietnam
- Horrors of war
- Antiwar movement
- Vietnamization
- Reunification
- An end at last : The nuclear test ban treaty of 1963
- SALT treaties
- Reagan's nuclear strategy
- An end to the cold war.