Cold War through Documents

A Global History
Herausgeber: Judge, Edward H.; Langdon, John W.

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Produktbeschreibung

This is a comprehensive collection of more than 100 documents (speeches, treaties, statements, and articles), making the great events of the era come alive. Coverage traces the Cold War from its roots in East-West tensions, to World War II, through the immediate postwar era, up to and including the collapse of the Soviet Union during 1989-1991.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
• Seitenzahl: 398
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. Juni 2024
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 28mm
• Gewicht: 795g
• ISBN-13: 9781538195673
• ISBN-10: 1538195674
• Artikelnr.: 69929362

Autorenporträt

Edward H. Judge is professor of history and John W. Langdon is professor emeritus of history at Le Moyne College. Their books include Connections: A World History and A Hard and Bitter Peace: A Global History of the Cold War .

Inhaltsangabe

Contents Part I: The Origins of the Cold War
1945-1950 1 The Yalta Conference
February 1945 2 The Potsdam Conference
July-August 1945 3 The Atomic Bombing of Hiroshima
August 1945 4 Ho Chi Minh's Declaration of Independence for Vietnam
2 September 1945 5 Stalin's Election Speech
February 1946 6 Churchill's Iron Curtain Speech
March 1946 7 The Baruch and Gromyko Plans for Control of Atomic Weapons
1946 8 The Truman Doctrine
1947 9 The Marshall Plan
1947 10 George F. Kennan
"The Sources of Soviet Conduct
" 1947 11 The Rio Treaty
1947 12 Zhdanov and the Cominform on the Imperialist and Anti-Imperialist Camps
1947 13 The Communist Coup in Czechoslovakia
February 1948 14 The Treaty of Brussels
1948 15 The Expulsion of Tito from the Communist Bloc
1948 16 The Berlin Blockade
1948-1949 17 The NATO Alliance
1949 18 Acheson on the Communist Triumph in China
1949 19 Mao Proclaims the People's Republic of China
1 October 1949 20 The Soviet-Chinese Friendship Treaty
February 1950 Part II: The Global Confrontation
1950-1960 21 McCarthy on "Communists" in the US Government
1950 22 Acheson on the American Defense Perimeter in Asia
1950 23 NSC-68: American Cold War Strategy
1950 24 Surviving an Atomic Attack
1950-1951 25 The Korean War
1950-1953 26 Dulles on "Massive Retaliation
" 1954 27 The Geneva Accords Regarding Indochina
1954 28 The SEATO Alliance
1954 29 The Bandung Asian-African Conference
1955 30 The Warsaw Pact
1955 31 Appeals for World Peace
1955-1963 32 Khrushchev's Secret Speech on Stalin and His Crimes
1956 33 The Hungarian Rebellion
1956 34 The Suez Crisis
1956 35 The Eisenhower Doctrine
1957 36 Europe's Common Market: The Treaty of Rome
1957 37 Sputnik and the Space Race
1957-1969 38 China's "Great Leap Forward
" 1958-1960 39 Apartheid
South Africa
and the Cold War
1960-1964 40 The U-2 Affair and Collapse of the Paris Summit
May 1960 41 The Congo Crisis
1960 42 Castro on the Cuban Revolution
1960 Part III: Crisis and Conflict
1961-1969 43 Khrushchev on "Wars of National Liberation
" January
1961 44 Kwame Nkrumah on the Need for African Unity
1961 45 Eisenhower's Farewell Address on the Military-Industrial Complex
17 January 1961 46 Kennedy's Inaugural Address
1961 47 Kennedy's Civil Defense Initiatives
1961 48 The Berlin Crisis
1961 49 The Cuban Missile Crisis
October 1962 50 Kennedy's Berlin Speech
June 1963: "Ich Bin Ein Berliner" 51 The Nuclear Test Ban Treaty
August 1963 52 The Sino-Soviet Split
1960-1964 53 The Gulf of Tonkin Resolution
1964 54 Lin Biao
"Long Live the Victory of People's War
" 1965 55 Lyndon Johnson and the Vietnam War
1965-1968 56 China's Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution
1966-1969 57 Soviet Dissidents and the Cold War
1966-1978 58 The Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty
July 1968 59 The Soviet Invasion of Czechoslovakia
August 1968 60 The Brezhnev Doctrine
1968 61 The Soviet-Chinese Border Conflict
1969 62 The Nixon Doctrine
1969 Part IV. The Era of Détente
1969-1979 63 Salvador Allende's Freely Elected Marxist Government in Chile
1970-1973 64 The Berlin Accords
September 1971 65 Nixon's China Visit: The Shanghai Communiqué
February 1972 66 The ABM Treaty and SALT I
1972 67 The US Withdrawal from Vietnam
January 1973 68 The October War in the Middle East
1973 69 Deng Xiaoping's "Three Worlds" Speech
April 1974 70 The Vladivostok Summit
1974 71 The Helsinki Final Act
1975 72 The Cambodian Genocide
1975-1979 73 Carter on Human Rights
1977 74 Peace between Egypt and Israel
1977-1979 75 The Normalization of US-Chinese Relations
1978-1979 76 The SALT II Agreement
1979 Part V: The Renewal of the Cold War
1979-1985 77 The Creation of an Islamic Republic in Iran
1979 78 The Euromissile Controversy
1979 79 The Soviet Invasion of Afghanistan
December 1979 80 The Carter Doctrine
January 1980 81 Reagan's Anti-Soviet Rhetoric
1981-1983 82 Reagan's Arms Control Proposals
November 1981 83 The Polish Imposition of Martial Law
December 1981 84 Andropov's Peace Offensive
1982 85 Reagan's "Star Wars" Speech
1983 86 Calls to Halt the Nuclear Arms Race
1983 87 The KAL 007 Incident
1983 Part VI: The End of the Cold War
1985-1991 88 The Geneva Summit
1985 89 The Reykjavik Summit
1986 90 Reagan's 1987 Berlin Speech: "Tear Down This Wall" 91 The INF Treaty
December 1987 92 The Soviet Withdrawal from Afghanistan
1988-1989 93 Gorbachev's UN Address
December 1988 94 The Tienanmen Square Massacre
June 1989 95 The Opening of the Berlin Wall
November 1989 96 NATO Non-Enlargement Assurances
February-May 1990 97 NATO's London Declaration on the End of the Cold War
July 1990 98 The Unification of Germany
July-October 1990 99 The Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (START I)
July 1991 100 The Attempted Coup in the USSR
August 1991 101 Gorbachev's Resignation Speech
December 1991