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General Cold War Resources The Cold War Museum http://www.coldwar.org/museum/exhibits.html "Learning Curve:" a site with lots of documents and graphics aimed at students General Truman Resources The Speeches of Harry Truman (Audio Clips and Text Files) http://www.trumanlibrary.org/audio/audio.htm Truman’s 1947 Diary http://www.trumanlibrary.org/diary/index.html The Truman Library (Extensive document collections) http://www.trumanlibrary.org/index.php Origins of the Cold War Letter: Harry Truman to Bess Truman, from Potsdam Conference (July 31, 1945) Audio File, Sec. of State on Signing of United Nations Charter http://www.historychannel.com/speeches/archive/speech_286.html Churchill’s Iron Curtain Speech http://www.historyplace.com/speeches/ironcurtain.htm Stalin’s Reply to Churchill’s Iron Curtain Speech http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/1946stalin.html The North Atlantic Treaty, 1949 http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/NATOTREATY.html Audio File, Truman Signs to North Atlantic Treaty Organization http://www.historychannel.com/speeches/archive/speech_301.html
Nuclear Diplomacy & Force Recommendations on the Immediate Use of Nuclear Weapons" (June 16, 1945) Containment and the Truman Doctrine The Truman Doctrine, 1947 Address to Joint Session of Congress http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/1947TRUMAN.html George F. Kennan’s “Long Telegram” http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/1957Dulles-peace1.html Excerpts from NSC-68 http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/1949-acheson-china.html
The Marshal Plan George Marshall on the Marshall plan: audio, text, and photo
The First Berlin Crisis The Berlin Crisis, USA & USSR Exchange Notes on Berlin http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/1961berlin-usa-ussr.html Documents on the Berlin Airlift http://www.trumanlibrary.org/whistlestop/study_collections/berlin_airlift/large/docs.php
Korea Large site with many links to Korean War Douglas MacArthur on Communist Advances in Korea http://www.historychannel.com/speeches/archive/speech_185.html Audio File, Truman Announces Decision to Deploy Forces to Korea http://www.historychannel.com/speeches/archive/speech_303.html
“Losing” China Dean Acheson on China, 1949: http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/1949-acheson-china.html
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General Resources Cold War International History Project (Large site w/ links on 1956 Polish & Hungarian Crises) http://wwics.si.edu/index.cfm?topic_id=1409&fuseaction=topics.home The Cold War Museum http://www.coldwar.org/museum/exhibits.html Miscellaneous Eisenhower Speeches Text of Selected Eisenhower Speeches http://www.historychannel.com/speeches/archive/speech_376.html Eisenhower’s First Inaugural Address http://www.bartleby.com/124/pres54.html Audio File of Eisenhower’s Speech on the Second Berlin Crisis http://www.historychannel.com/speeches/archive/speech_89.html Eisenhower's concerns about the "military-industrial complex", 1961 Audio File of Eisenhower’s Farewell Address http://www.historychannel.com/speeches/archive/speech_93.html Nuclear Arms Race and Limits “Massive Retaliation” Strategy http://www.nuclearfiles.org/kinuclearweapons/strat_mr.html Arms control and disarmament, 1958-1960 http://www.fas.org/spp/starwars/offdocs/ike/index.html Vietnam Eisenhower to Diem, 1954 Cartoon: U.S. Falls into Same Trap as the French
CIA Intervention in Guatemala Eisenhower Administration in Guatemala http://www.coldwar.org/articles/50s/guatemala.html State Department Resources on Guatemala 1952-1954 http://www.state.gov/r/pa/ho/frus/ike/guat/
The Space Race John Foster Dulles responds to Sputnik (1957) Sputnik and the Dawn of the Space Age (Document Collection) http://www.hq.nasa.gov/office/pao/History/sputnik/
Korea Audio File of Eisenhower Announcing the Korean War Armistice to http://www.historychannel.com/speeches/archive/speech_84.html
The U-2 Crisis and Aftermath The U-2 Incident, 1960 http://www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/u2.htm The U-2 Crisis http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U-2_Crisis_of_1960 Audio File of Eisenhower’s Speech Upon Returning from Canceled Paris Summit 1960 http://www.historychannel.com/speeches/archive/speech_92.html Khrushchev and Eisenhower Summit Statements, May 1960 http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/1960summit-statements1.html Khrushchev’s Address to the UN, September, 1960 http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/1960khrushchev-un1.html
The Suez Crisis and the Eisenhower Doctrine Audio File of Eisenhower’s Speech on the Suez Crisis http://www.historychannel.com/speeches/archive/speech_86.html The Eisenhower Doctrine http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/1957tass-eisenhower.html
Miscellaneous Nixon-Kruschev "Kitchen Debate", July 24, 1959 (original available in NYTimes 7/25/59--will scan if possible) John Foster Dulles: A Dynamic Peace |
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General Cold War Resources The Cold War Museum http://www.coldwar.org/museum/exhibits.html
General JFK Resources Selected Speeches (Both Audio and Text) of John F. Kennedy http://www.jfklibrary.org/speeches.htm JFK’s Inaugural Address http://www.jfklibrary.org/j012061.htm JFK Photo Gallery http://www.jfklibrary.org/photo_menu.html JFK Press Conferences http://www.jfklibrary.org/jfk_pressconf_menu.html Collection of JFK’s National Security Action Memoranda http://www.jfklibrary.org/nsam.htm
The Arms Race “Flexible Response” Strategy http://www.nuclearfiles.org/kinuclearweapons/strat_flexible.html Kennedy's concerns about unchecked arms growth, May 1963 http://www.nuclearfiles.org/kinuclearweapons/strat_mr.html Memorandum by McGeorge Bundy on National Security Action Memo 254 (NSAM 254) about possible Russian weapons superiority, July 18, 1963 Arms Control/Disarmament 1961-1963 http://www.fas.org/spp/starwars/offdocs/jfk/index.html
The Space Race Audio File, JFK On First American to Orbit the Earth http://www.historychannel.com/speeches/archive/speech_160.html Kennedy’s Speech Calling for Landing a Man on the Moon (Text, Audio & Visual) http://vesuvius.jsc.nasa.gov/er/seh/ricetalk.htm Audio File, JFK’s Cabinet Debates the Space Race http://www.jfklibrary.org/pr_jfk_tapes_tape63.html JFK Made Going to the Moon a Top Priority http://www.jfklibrary.org/newsletter_winter2002_14-15.html LBJ’s Memos to JFK on Space Race http://www.jfklibrary.org/lbj_space_memo.html The Cuban Missile Crisis The Bay of Pigs The U.S. plan to overthrow Cuba Fiedel Castro's Havana Declaration University of Michigan > JFK tapes > Cuba [scroll down to find] Photos of Missiles in Cuba Russian Documents on the Cuban Missile Crisis http://wwics.si.edu/index.cfm?topic_id=1409&fuseaction=library.document&id=243 Cold War International History Project (Very large site with links on Cuban Missile Crisis) http://wwics.si.edu/index.cfm?topic_id=1409&fuseaction=topics.home Khruschev’s Speech on Cuba, July 1960 http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/1960khrushchev-cuba1.html John F. Kennedy, The Lesson of Cuba, 1961 http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/1961-kennedy-cuba1.html Documents Relating to the Cuban Missile Crisis (LOTS of links to documents, some of them are a little obscure) http://www.mtholyoke.edu/acad/intrel/cuba.htm 1962, UN Debate of Cuban Missile Crisis http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/1962-cuba-un1.html Audio File, Adlai Stevenson Confronts Soviet Ambassador on Cuban Missiles in UN http://www.historychannel.com/speeches/archive/speech_290.html JFK’s Address to the American People on the Cuban Missile Crisis http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/1962kennedy-cuba.html Audio File, JFK Discloses Cuban Missile Sites http://www.historychannel.com/speeches/archive/speech_162.html The World on the Brink: John F. Kennedy and the Cuban Missile Crisis (Collection w/ Many Documents) http://www.jfklibrary.org/cmc_exhibit_2002.html
Berlin JFK “Ich Bien Ein Berliner” Speech http://www.americanrhetoric.com/speeches/jfkichbineinberliner.html JFK on the Berlin Crisis, 1961 http://www.usconstitution.com/JohnKennedy'sBerlinCrisis.htm Audio File, News Report on the Erection of the Berlin Wall, 1961 http://www.historychannel.com/speeches/archive/speech_376.html
Peace Corps and the Alliance for Progress The Alliance for Progress http://www.jfklibrary.org/pr_jfk_latinamerica.html JFK Address on the Alliance for Progress http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/1961kennedy-afp1.html JFK on the Peace Corps http://www.jfklibrary.org/jfk_peace_corps.html
Vietnam Cartoon: U.S. Falls into Same Trap as the French National Security Action Memorandum 263 (Suggests JFK may have wanted to withdraw from Vietnam before his death) http://mcadams.posc.mu.edu/viet14.htm JFK on Vietnam http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/database/article_display.cfm?HHID=617 Audio File, Radio Show on JFK’s Vietnam Policy http://www.onpointradio.org/shows/2003/11/20031120_b_main.asp Eisenhower Explains Domino Theory http://www.richmond.edu/~ebolt/history398/DominoTheory.html Early U.S. Advisory Experience in Vietnam http://www.richmond.edu/~ebolt/history398/USAdvisoryExperience(1954-1965).html JFK TV Interview on Vietnam http://www.mtholyoke.edu/acad/intrel/kentv.htm Miscellaneous Audio File, JFK On Summit w/ Khrushchev http://www.historychannel.com/speeches/archive/speech_159.html Audio File, Adlai Stevenson Speaks to UN on China http://www.historychannel.com/speeches/archive/speech_289.html
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