Cold War

James R. Arnold is a military historian and the author of more than twenty books.Roberta Wiener is managing editor of the Journal of Military History.

• Overview of the Cold WarCauses of the Cold WarConsequences of the Cold WarREFERENCE ENTRIESAcheson, Dean Gooderham (1893–1971)Afghanistan War (1979–1989)AfricaArab NationalismBay of Pigs (April 17, 1961)Berlin Blockade and Airlift (1948–1949)Berlin Crises (1958–1961)Berlin Wall (August 13, 1961–November 9, 1989)Brandt, Willy (1913–1992)Brezhnev, Leonid (1906–1982)Central Intelligence AgencyChurchill, Winston (1874–1965)Civil DefenseCommittee on the Present DangerCommunist Revolutionary WarfareCongo Civil War (1960–1965)CubaCuban Missile Crisis (October 1962)Dominican Republic, U.S. Interventions inDulles, John Foster (1888–1959)Eisenhower, Dwight David (1890–1969)Geneva Conference (1954)Gorbachev, Mikhail (1931–)Greek Civil War (1946–1949)Gromyko, Andrey (1909–1989)GulagsHelsinki Final Act (1975)Hiss, Alger (1904–1996)Ho Chi Minh (1890–1969)Hoover, John Edgar (1895–1972)Human RightsHydrogen BombIndochina War (1946–1954)IsraelJohnson, Lyndon Baines (1908–1973)Kennan, George Frost (1904–2005)Kennedy, John Fitzgerald (1917–1963)Khrushchev, Nikita (1894–1971)Kissinger, Henry (1923–)Korean War (1950–1953)LaosLatin America, Popular Liberation Movements inLiteratureMalayan Emergency (1948–1960)Mao Zedong (1893–1976)Marshall PlanMcCarthyismMissiles, Intercontinental BallisticMoscow Meeting, Brezhnev and Nixon (May 22–30, 1972)Mutual Assured DestructionNational Security Act (July 26, 1947)National Security AgencyNixon, Richard Milhous (1913–1994)Non-Aligned MovementNorth American Aerospace Defense CommandNorth Atlantic Treaty Organization, History of (1948–1990)NSC-68, National Security Council ReportNuclear Arms RaceNuclear TestsOstpolitikPartial Test Ban Treaty (August 5, 1963)Peace MovementsPerestroikaPrague Spring (1968)Radio Free Europe and Radio LibertyReagan, Ronald Wilson (1911–2004)Sakharov, Andrei Dimitrievich (1921–1989)Sino-Soviet Split (1956–1966)Solidarity MovementSputnik (October 4, 1957)Stalin, Josef (1879–1953)Strategic Air CommandStrategic Arms Limitation Talks and TreatiesStrategic Arms Reduction Talks and TreatiesStrategic Defense InitiativeTiananmen Square (June 4, 1989)Tito, Josip Broz (1892–1980)Truman Doctrine (March 12, 1947)U-2 Incident (May 1960)United NationsVietnam War (1957–1975)Vladivostok Meeting (November 22–24, 1974)Warsaw PactWashington Summit Meeting, Reagan and Gorbachev (December 7–10, 1987)Yeltsin, Boris (1931–2007)PRIMARY SOURCE DOCUMENTSDeclaration on Liberated Europe: The Yalta Conference (February 1945)Ho Chi Minh: Telegrams to President Harry S. Truman (September 29, 1945, and February 28, 1946)Winston Churchill: "The Sinews of Peace" (Iron Curtain Speech) (March 5, 1946)George C. Marshall: Remarks by the Secretary of State (Marshall Plan) (June 5, 1947)North Atlantic Treaty (1949)Harry S. Truman: First U.S. Acknowledgment of Soviet Atomic Bomb Detonation (September 23, 1949)Joseph McCarthy: Speech on Spread of Communism (February 20, 1950)Harry S. Truman: Declaration of a National Emergency (December 16, 1950)Douglas MacArthur: Post-Recall Speech to Congress (April 19, 1951)Korean Armistice Agreement (1953)Dwight D. Eisenhower: "The Row of Dominoes," Presidential Press Conference (April 7, 1954)Warsaw Security Pact (1955)Mao Zedong: "U.S. Imperialism Is a Paper Tiger" (July 14, 1956)Imre Nagy: Final Message to the Hungarian People (1956)Soviet Announcement of Sputnik (October 5, 1957)John F. Kennedy: Inaugural Address (January 20, 1961)Vadim Orlov: Account of the B-59 Incident (1962)John F. Kennedy: Commencement Address Announcing Cooperation with Soviets (June 10, 1963)Nuclear Test Ban Treaty (1963)Tonkin Gulf Resolution (August 7, 1964)Chinese Announcement of Nuclear Test (October 16, 1964)Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty (1968)Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty I (May 26, 1972)U.S. War Powers Act (November 7, 1973)Yuri Andropov: Memorandum to Brezhnev on Afghanistan (December 1979)Civil Defense Instructions for Home Fallout Shelters (1980)U.S. Government: Disappearances and Human Rights, Three Document Excerpts (1980–1996)Ronald Reagan: The "Evil Empire" (March 8, 1983)Ronald Reagan: "Tear Down This Wall" Speech (June 12, 1987)The Minsk Declarations (Dissolution of the Soviet Union) (December 8, 1991)Competition Spurs TechnologyEvolving East–West RelationsProxy Wars and Military AidRonald Reagan and the Cold WarCold War ChronologyBibliographyList of Editors and ContributorsIndex

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