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Sites dealing with primary documents about the Cold War. This includes various government statements, documents, declarations and treaties.

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• Atlantic Charter

  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atlantic_Charter
  A brief information article stating the major points agreed upon.

• Cryptome

  http://cryptome.org/
  Documents concerning government and intelligence activities, from Cold-War era to the present time.

• Dynamic Peace

  http://sourcebooks.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/1957Dulles-peace1.asp
  An address by United States Secretary of State on April 22, 1957.

• Exchange of Notes on the Berlin Wall, 1961

  http://legacy.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/1961berlin-usa-ussr.html
  Communications between the United States and the U.S.S.R.

• Reply to Churchill

  http://legacy.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/1946stalin.asp
  Joseph Stalin's response to Winston Churchill in an interview with Pravda.

• Speech to the RFSR Teacher's Congress on Cuba

  http://sourcebooks.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/1960khrushchev-cuba1.asp
  Spoken by Nikita Khruschchev July 9, 1960.

• Statement on the Eisenhower Doctrine

  http://sourcebooks.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/1957tass-eisenhower.asp
  A response by TASS on January 14 1957.

• Summit Statements

  http://sourcebooks.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/1960summit-statements1.asp
  Speeches made by Nikita Khrushchev and Dwight Eisenhower on May 16 1960.

• The Avalon Project at Yale Law School : The Cold War

  http://avalon.law.yale.edu/subject_menus/coldwar.asp
  Includes transcripts of important and landmarking documents that "legalized" major events of the Cold War. Part of the Avalon Project at Yale.

• The Eisenhower Doctrine - A Message to Congress

  http://sourcebooks.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/1957eisenhowerdoctrine.asp
  The President's message to Congress, January 5, 1957.

• The Iron Curtain

  http://sourcebooks.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/churchill-iron.asp
  Part of the Great Speeches collection made by Winston Churchill.

• The Lesson of Cuba

  http://legacy.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/1961-kennedy-cuba1.asp
  Delivered by President Kennedy before the American Society of Newspaper Editors at Washington, D.C., April 20, 1961.

• The Truman Doctrine

  http://www.trumanlibrary.org/whistlestop/study_collections/doctrine/large/index.php
  Documents, a lesson plan, and reference to an oral history.

• The Truman Doctrine, 1947

  http://sourcebooks.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/1947TRUMAN.asp
  The President's address before a joint session of Congress.

• The U-2 Incident 1960

  http://avalon.law.yale.edu/20th_century/u2.asp
  Papers relating to the shooting down of an unarmed American civilian aircraft over the Soviet Union.

• Towards a Strategy of Peace

  http://sourcebooks.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/1963Kennedy-peacestrat.asp
  An address by President Kennedy at The American University, Washington, D.C., June 10, 1963.

 

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