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From Peace to Cold War

Texts:
  • United Nations Charter
  • The Yalta Conference
  • NATO Treaty; 1949
  • The Warsaw Security Pact: May 14, 1955
  • The Brezhnev Doctrine
  • The Truman Doctrine
  • Report of The United Nations Commission on Korea
  • Andrei A. Gromyko: On American Intervention In Korea
  • The Final Declaration of the Geneva Conference: On Restoring Peace in Indochina
  • Mao Zedong: In Commemoration of the 28th Anniversary of the Communist Party of China
  • Editorial of the Liberation Army Daily (Jiefangjun Bao): Mao Tse-Tung's Thought is the Telescope and Microscope of Our Revolutionary Cause
  • Chinese Communist Party: The Leaders of the CPSU are the Greates Splitters of Our Times
  • Senator Fulbright: Appraisal of US Policy in the Dominican Crisis
  • John F. Kennedy: The Lesson of Cuba
  • United Nations: Cuban Missile Crisis Debate
  • John F. Kennedy: Address on the Cuban Crisis

    Images:

    East and West: Two Paths to Recovery in Europe

    Texts:
  • Modern History Sourcebook: Eastern Europe Since 1945
     
  • Nikita Krushchev: Secret Speech
  • Time Magazine: Khruschev: Man of the Year, 1957
  • Hungarian Students: Sixteen Political, Economic, and Ideological Points
  • TXY: Trybuna Ludu: Clear Current and Scum, 1956, A Polish newspaper on events in Hungary
  • USA and USSR: Exchange of Notes on the Berlin Wall
  • The Marshall Plan
  • Sir William Beveridge: Social and Allied Services (The Beveridge Report)
  • Treaty of Rome

    Images:

    The Twilight of Colonialism

    Texts:
  • Liberating Africa [Modern History Sourcebook: Africa since 1945
     
  • François Ponchaud, Cambodia: Year Zero
  • Jawaharlal Nehru: Speech On the Granting of Indian Independence
  • Israeli Declaration of Independence
  • The "Loi-Cadre" of June 23
  • UN Resolution 1598: On Race Conflict in South Africa

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    Protests, Problems, and New Politics: The 1960s to the 1980s.

    Texts:
  • Modern History Sourcebook: Modern Social Movements
     
  • Martin Luther King Jr.: Letter From A Birmingham Jail, April 16, 1963]
  • National Organization of Women: Statement of Purpose, 1966]
  • Margaret Thatcher: Christianity and Wealth, Speech made to the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland

    Image:

    Postindustrial Society

    Text:
  • Tom Wolfe: The Me Decade and the Third Great Awakening

    Breakthroughs in Science

    Texts:
  • Kirkpatrick Sale: Lessons from the Luddites: Setting Limits On Technology, The Nation, June 5, 1995
  • John F. Kennedy: The Space Challenge, Sept 13, 1962][[Image]

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