Chapter Outline

CXX. Confrontation and Detente, 1955-1975

1. [Image President Eisenhower]
2. [Image John Foster Dulles]
3. [Primary Source Khrushchev and Eisenhower, Summit Statements, 1960]
4. [Secondary Discussion The Summit Conference of 1960: An Intelligence Officer's View]
5. [Secondary Discussion Suez crisis in 1956]
6. [Primary Source Eisenhower Doctrine]
7. [Image Sputnik, 1958]
8. [Image Explorer I]
9. [Image Soviet SS-25 ICBM]
10. [Image American Titan II nuclear missile]
11. [Secondary Discussion Robert McNamara, Mutual deterrence, 1967]

1. The Kennedy Years, 1961-1963
1. [Secondary Source The Beginning of the Peace Corps]
2. [Primary Source Alberto Lleras, Report on the Alliance for Progress, 1963]
3. [Map Bay of Pigs invasion]
4. [Secondary Discussion/Primary Source Civil defense program]
5. [Image Advertising bomb shelters]
6. [Image Supplies for a well-stocked bomb shelter]
7. [Image Bomb shelter]
8. [Image Berlin Wall]
9. [Primary Source Berlin Wall Exchange of Notes on the Berlin Wall, 1961]
10. [Secondary Discussion/Images Bikini Atoll: Testing Nuclear Bombs]

2. The Cuban Missile Crisis of 1962
1. [Primary Source Cuban Missile Crisis Debate, 1962]
2. [Primary Source President John Kennedy, Address on the Cuban Crisis, 1962]
3. [Map Cuba during missile crisis]

3. The United States and the Vietnam War
1. [Image Ho Chi Minh]
2. [Image Ngo Dinh Diem]
3. [Image Viet Cong]
4. [Primary Source President Eisenhower, Aid to the State of Viet-Nam, 1954]
5. [Secondary Discussion The Fall of Ngo Dinh Diem, 1963]
6. [Primary Source Gulf of Tonkin Incident, 1964]
7. [Image US troops in VN]
8. [Image Massive bombing1965-69]
9. [Secondary Discussion 1968--A Year of Great Hopes and Great Disappointments]
10. [Image Anti-war protest, Washington DC, early 1970s]
11. [Secondary Discussion/Images Kent State, May 4, 1970]
12. [Primary Sources Paris Peace talks]
13. [Image Henry Kissinger]
14. [Image Signing the cease-fire agreement, January 1973]
15. [Secondary Discussion My Lai massacre, 1968]
16. [Image Khmer Rouge guerillas]
17. [Image Choeung Ek, Cambodia killing field]
18. [Secondary Discussion/Image Pol Pot]
19. [Primary Source Fran's Ponchaud, Cambodia: Year Zero, 1978]

4. Brezhnev: The "Prague Spring"
1. [Image Leonid I. Brezhnev]
2. [Image Alexander Dubcek]
3. [Images Soviet army in Prague, 1968]
4. [Images Soviet army in Prague, 1968]
5. [Primary Source Brezhnev Doctrine, 1968]

4. Brezhnev and Nixon
1. [Image Nixon visited Mao in Beijing]
2. [Secondary Discussion The Strategic Arms Limitation (SALT) talks
3. [Primary Source SALT I treaty, 1972]
4. [Primary Source Helsinki accords, 1975]
5. [Image Helsinki conference]

CXXI. Collapse and Recovery and the Global Economy: The 1970s and 1980s

1. [Image Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries, 1960]

1. The Recession: Stagnation and Inflation
1. [Image Margaret Thatcher]
2. [Primary Source Ronald Reagan, Evil Empire Speech, 1982]
3. [Secondary Discussion Supply side economics]

2. Economic and Political Change in Western Europe
1. [Image Unemployed in 1970s UK]
2. [Image Falkland war, 1982]
3. [Image Table on unemployment in Scotland
4. [Primary Source New Labour manifesto, 1997]
5. [Image Tony Blair]
6. [Secondary Discussion Labour party victory in 1997]
7. [Image Francois Mitterrand, 1981]
8. [Image Prime Minister Jacques Chirac]
9. [Image Helmut Schmidt]
10. [Image Bettino Craxi]
11. [Image Felipe Gonzalez]

3. The American Economy
1. [Image Bill Clinton]

4. The Financial World
1. [Image October 1987 crash]
2. [Secondary Discussion "Group of Seven" annual economic summits]
3. [Primary Source General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade, 1947]

5. The Enlarged European Community: Problems and Opportunities
1. [Secondary Discussion Institutions of the European Union]

6. Toward a "Single Europe": the European Union
1. [Image Commodore personal computer, 1982]
2. [Primary Source Single European Act, 1987]
3. [Primary Source Maastricht Treaty of European Union]

CXXII. The Cold War Rekindled

1. [Image Jimmy Carter]
2. [Primary Source SALT II treaty, 1979]
3. [Image Soviet advisors in Afghanistan, 1988]

1. The Reagan Years: From Revived Cold War to New Detente
1. [Image American invasion of Grenada, 1983]
2. [Image American planes bombed military installations in Libya]
3. [Image Terrorist attack on American and French installations in Lebanon, 1983]

2. Nuclear Arms Control
1. [Primary Source Partial test-ban treaty, 1963]
2. [Primary Source/Secondary Discussion Partial test-ban treaty]
3. [Secondary Discussion Three Mile Island accident, 1979]
4. [Secondary Discussion Chernobyl nuclear accident, 1986]
5. [Image Chernobyl]
6. [Secondary Discussion/Image MIRV]
7. [Image Cruise missile]
8. [Primary Source Treaty establishing the "hot line," 1963]

CXXIII. China after Mao

1. [Secondary Discussion "Gang of four"]
2. [Image Deng Xiaoping]

1. Deng's Reforms
1. [Primary Source Xiao-huang Yin, China's Gilded Age, 1994]

2. The "Democracy Movement"
1. [Image Hu Yaobang]
2. [Images Hu's death in April 1989 set off student demonstrations in Tiananmen Square]
3. [Images Hu's death in April 1989 set off student demonstrations in Tiananmen Square]
4. [Image Chinese government imposed martial law following Tiananmen Square massacre]
5. [Image Tienanmen Square, 1989]
6. [Image Jiang Zemin]

3. Population Growth