Cold War Reference Library (Repost)
Sharon and Richard Hanes | U.X.L Gale Group | PDF | 23MB | 1465 pages | 2003 | ISBN: 0787690899
Sharon and Richard Hanes | U.X.L Gale Group | PDF | 23MB | 1465 pages | 2003 | ISBN: 0787690899
Stretching from the end of World War II to 1989, the Cold War between the Western powers and the Communist bloc shaped national alliances around the world.
In 15 chapters, the Almanac treats the historic causes of the tension; the mutual suspicions that fueled the conflict for more than 40 years; the ideological clash between communism and democracy; and the policies that marked the long standoff – the Marshall Plan,Truman's Point Four program, the nuclear arms race, economic aid, the Berlin Wall, detente; and much more. Also covered are the times when the Cold War burst into armed conflict in such areas as Korea, Cuba and Southeast Asia.
Biographies presents approximately 50 intriguing stories of the lives and actions of Harry Truman, Winston Churchill, Joseph Stalin, Mao Zedong, Ronald Reagan, Mikhail Gorbachev and many others, both famous and less well-known.
Giving first-hand views of various aspects of the Cold War, Primary Sources provides key complete and excerpted documents of the war, such as Winston Churchill's "Iron Curtain" speech and correspondence between John F. Kennedy and Nikita Khrushchev during the Cuban Missile Crisis.
Included in the Reference Library are 300 black-and-white illustrations with approximately 10 maps; chronology; sidebars; words to know; research and activity ideas; further reading; subject index; and more.
Contents
Almanac - Volume 1
Chapter 1: Origins of the Cold War
Chapter 2: Conflict Builds
Chapter 3: Germany and Berlin
Chapter 4: Dawning of the Nuclear Age
Chapter 5: Homeland Insecurities
Chapter 6: Espionage in the Cold War
Chapter 7: A Worldwide Cold War
Almanac - Volume 2
Chapter 8: Renewed Tensions
Chapter 9: Cuban Missile Crisis
Chapter 10: Mutual Assured Destruction
Chapter 11: An Unsettled World
Chapter 12: Home Front Turmoil: The 1960s
Chapter 13: Détente: A Lessening of Tensions
Chapter 14: A Freeze in Relations
Chapter 15: End of the Cold War
Biographies - Volume 1
Dean G. Acheson
Konrad Adenauer
Salvador Allende
Clement R. Attlee
Ernest Bevin
Leonid Brezhnev
George Bush
James F. Byrnes
Jimmy Carter
Fidel Castro
Chiang Kai-shek
Winston Churchill
Clark M. Clifford
Deng Xiaoping
John Foster Dulles
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Mikhail Gorbachev
Andrey Gromyko
W. Averell Harriman
Ho Chi Minh
J. Edgar Hoover
Lyndon B. Johnson
Biographies - Volume 2
George F. Kennan
John F. Kennedy
Nikita Khrushchev
Kim Il Sung
Jeane Kirkpatrick
Henry Kissinger
Helmut Kohl
Aleksey Kosygin
Igor Kurchatov
Douglas MacArthur
Harold Macmillan
Mao Zedong
George C. Marshall
Joseph R. McCarthy
Robert S. McNamara
Vyacheslav Molotov
Richard M. Nixon
J. Robert Oppenheimer
Ayn Rand
Ronald Reagan
Condoleezza Rice
Andrey Sakharov
Eduard Shevardnadze
Joseph Stalin
Margaret Thatcher
Josip Broz Tito
Harry S. Truman
Zhou Enlai
Primary Sources:
George F. Kennan
The “Long Telegram”
Winston Churchill
The “Iron Curtain Speech”
Nikolai V. Novikov
The “Novikov Telegram”
Harry S. Truman
“Special Message to the Congress on Greece and Turkey: The Truman Doctrine, March 12, 1947”
George C. Marshall
“Remarks by the Honorable George C. Marshall, Secretary of State, at Harvard University on June 5, 1947”
Harry S. Truman
“Special Message to the Congress on the Threat to the Freedom of Europe, March 17, 1948”
Isaac Don Levine
“Our First Line of Defense”
Paul H. Nitze
“National Security Council Report on Soviet Intentions (NSC-68)”
Douglas MacArthur
“Old Soldiers Never Die; They Just Fade Away” Speech
Eleanor Roosevelt.
“Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt’s Address to the
Democratic National Convention on the Importance of the United Nations, Chicago, Illinois, July 23, 1952”
Dwight D. Eisenhower
“The Chance for Peace”
Dwight D. Eisenhower
“Peaceful Uses of Atomic Energy” Speech
J. Edgar Hoover
“How to Fight Communism”
Ayn Rand and Ronald Reagan
“Testimony from House Un-American Activities Hollywood Hearings, October 1947”
“One Hundred Things You Should Know About Communism in the U.S.A.”
Joseph R. McCarthy
“Speech on Communists in the U.S. State Department Made Before the Women’s Republican Club in Wheeling, West Virginia,
February 1950”
Nikita Khrushchev
“Crimes of Stalin Speech”
Sergei Khrushchev
“The Looking Glass”
Nikita Khrushchev
“Peace and Progress Must Triumph in Our Time”
John F. Kennedy
“Radio and Television Report to the American People on the Berlin Crisis, July 25, 1961”
Nikita Khrushchev
“Khrushchev’s Secret Speech on the Berlin Crisis, August 1961”
John F. Kennedy
“Remarks in the Rudolph Wild Platz, Berlin, June 26, 1963”
Robert F. Kennedy
Thirteen Days: A Memoir of the Cuban Missile Crisis
John F. Kennedy
“Radio and Television Report to the American People on the Soviet Arms Buildup in Cuba, October 22, 1962”
Nikita Khrushchev
“Communiqué to President Kennedy Accepting an End to the Missile Crisis, October 28, 1962”
Richard M. Nixon
“Informal Remarks in Guam with Newsmen (Nixon Doctrine), July 25, 1969”
Richard M. Nixon
“Remarks at Andrews Air Force Base on Returning from the People’s Republic of China, February 28, 1972”
Ronald Reagan
“Address to the Nation on the Meetings with Soviet General Secretary Gorbachev in Iceland, October 13, 1986”
Mikhail Gorbachev
“Address to the 43rd United Nations General Assembly Session, December 7, 1988”
George Bush and Mikhail Gorbachev
“At Historic Crossroads: Documents on the December 1989 Malta Summit”
George Bush
“End of Cold War: Address Before a Joint Session of the Congress on the State of the Union, January 28, 1992