Cold War through Documents

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.

This volume offers well-chosen primary sources from a wide range of Cold War arenas. The documents are compact, balanced, and ideal for stimulating student discussion in college-level courses. The new fourth edition expands the thematic range to include home fronts, the space race, the peace movement, South African apartheid, Soviet dissidents, and the post-Cold-War expansion of NATO. Simply the most comprehensive one-volume collection of Cold War primary sources available.

• ContentsPart I: The Origins of the Cold War, 1945-19501 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 19455 Stalin’s Election Speech, February 19466 Churchill’s Iron Curtain Speech, March 1946 7 The Baruch and Gromyko Plans for Control of Atomic Weapons, 1946 8 The Truman Doctrine, 19479 The Marshall Plan, 194710 George F. Kennan, “The Sources of Soviet Conduct,” 1947 11 The Rio Treaty, 194712 Zhdanov and the Cominform on the Imperialist and Anti-Imperialist Camps, 194713 The Communist Coup in Czechoslovakia, February 194814 The Treaty of Brussels, 194815 The Expulsion of Tito from the Communist Bloc, 1948 16 The Berlin Blockade, 1948–1949 17 The NATO Alliance, 194918 Acheson on the Communist Triumph in China, 1949 19 Mao Proclaims the People’s Republic of China, 1 October 194920 The Soviet–Chinese Friendship Treaty, February 1950Part II: The Global Confrontation, 1950-196021 McCarthy on “Communists” in the US Government, 195022 Acheson on the American Defense Perimeter in Asia, 1950 23 NSC–68: American Cold War Strategy, 195024 Surviving an Atomic Attack, 1950-195125 The Korean War, 1950–195326 Dulles on “Massive Retaliation,” 195427 The Geneva Accords Regarding Indochina, 1954 28 The SEATO Alliance, 195429 The Bandung Asian-African Conference, 1955 30 The Warsaw Pact, 195531 Appeals for World Peace, 1955-196332 Khrushchev’s Secret Speech on Stalin and His Crimes, 195633 The Hungarian Rebellion, 195634 The Suez Crisis, 195635 The Eisenhower Doctrine, 195736 Europe’s Common Market: The Treaty of Rome, 195737 Sputnik and the Space Race, 1957-196938 China’s “Great Leap Forward,” 1958-196039 Apartheid, South Africa, and the Cold War, 1960-196440 The U–2 Affair and Collapse of the Paris Summit, May 196041 The Congo Crisis, 196042 Castro on the Cuban Revolution, 1960Part III: Crisis and Conflict, 1961-196943 Khrushchev on “Wars of National Liberation,” January, 196144 Kwame Nkrumah on the Need for African Unity, 196145 Eisenhower’s Farewell Address on the Military-Industrial Complex, 17 January 196146 Kennedy’s Inaugural Address, 196147 Kennedy’s Civil Defense Initiatives, 196148 The Berlin Crisis, 196149 The Cuban Missile Crisis, October 196250 Kennedy’s Berlin Speech, June 1963: “Ich Bin Ein Berliner”51 The Nuclear Test Ban Treaty, August 196352 The Sino-Soviet Split, 1960–1964 53 The Gulf of Tonkin Resolution, 196454 Lin Biao, “Long Live the Victory of People’s War,” 1965 55 Lyndon Johnson and the Vietnam War, 1965–196856 China’s Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution, 1966-196957 Soviet Dissidents and the Cold War, 1966-197858 The Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, July 196859 The Soviet Invasion of Czechoslovakia, August 196860 The Brezhnev Doctrine, 1968 61 The Soviet-Chinese Border Conflict, 1969 62 The Nixon Doctrine, 1969Part IV. The Era of Détente, 1969-197963 Salvador Allende’s Freely Elected Marxist Government in Chile, 1970-197364 The Berlin Accords, September 197165 Nixon’s China Visit: The Shanghai Communiqué, February 197266 The ABM Treaty and SALT I, 197267 The US Withdrawal from Vietnam, January 197368 The October War in the Middle East, 197369 Deng Xiaoping’s “Three Worlds” Speech, April 1974 70 The Vladivostok Summit, 197471 The Helsinki Final Act, 197572 The Cambodian Genocide, 1975-197973 Carter on Human Rights, 197774 Peace between Egypt and Israel, 1977–197975 The Normalization of US-Chinese Relations, 1978–197976 The SALT II Agreement, 1979Part V: The Renewal of the Cold War, 1979-198577 The Creation of an Islamic Republic in Iran, 197978 The Euromissile Controversy, 197979 The Soviet Invasion of Afghanistan, December 197980 The Carter Doctrine, January 198081 Reagan’s Anti-Soviet Rhetoric, 1981–198382 Reagan’s Arms Control Proposals, November 1981 83 The Polish Imposition of Martial Law, December 198184 Andropov’s Peace Offensive, 198285 Reagan’s “Star Wars” Speech, 198386 Calls to Halt the Nuclear Arms Race, 198387 The KAL 007 Incident, 1983Part VI: The End of the Cold War, 1985-199188 The Geneva Summit, 198589 The Reykjavik Summit, 198690 Reagan’s 1987 Berlin Speech: “Tear Down This Wall”91 The INF Treaty, December 198792 The Soviet Withdrawal from Afghanistan, 1988–198993 Gorbachev’s UN Address, December 198894 The Tienanmen Square Massacre, June 198995 The Opening of the Berlin Wall, November 198996 NATO Non-Enlargement Assurances, February-May 199097 NATO’s London Declaration on the End of the Cold War, July 199098 The Unification of Germany, July-October 199099 The Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (START I), July 1991100 The Attempted Coup in the USSR, August 1991101 Gorbachev’s Resignation Speech, December 1991