Table of Contents Publisher’s Note . ix Editor’s Introduction . xi Contributors . xiii VOLUME 1 Postwar Cold War Potsdam Agreement . 3 Stalin’s Election Speech, 1946 . 17 Churchill’s “ Iron Curtain” Speech . 25 Truman Doctrine Speech . 34 Speech on the Marshall Plan . 40 “The Sources of Soviet Content” . 45 Inter-American Treaty of Reciprocal Assistance (Rio Treaty) . 57 Vyshinky’s Speech to the UN General Assembly . 64 NATO Treaty . 68 Memorandum on Lifting the Soviet Blockade . 72 Dean Acheson on the “Loss” of China . 75 Atomic Explosion in the USSR . 79 International Control of Atomic Energy . 82 NSC 68: “United States Objectives and Programs for National Security” . 91 Report to the American People on Korea and US Policy in the Far East . 97 Statement by President Truman upon Signing the Mutual Security Act . .103 President Eisenhower—“The Chance for Peace” . .107 Mutual Defense Treaty between the United States and the Republic of Korea . .114 A “New Look” at National Defense Policy . .118 “Atoms for Peace” . .125 CIA Summary of the Overthrow of Premier Mossadeq of Iran . .132 Balkan Pact . .138 President Eisenhower to the President of the Council of Ministers of Vietnam . .143 Sino-American Mutual Defense Treaty . .146 Baghdad Pact . .150 President Sukarno's Address at the Bandung Conference . .154 Warsaw Pact . .163 v Khrushchev on the “Cult of Personality” and Its Consequences . .167 Senator John F. Kennedy on America’s Stake in Vietnam . .176 Resolution of Hungarian Student Protestors . .182 Mao on the “Correct Handling of Contradictions among the People” . .186 Launching of the Sputnik Satellite . .195 Eisenhower on Science in National Security . .199 “Communism in the Americas” . .206 Fidel Castro’s Speech at Twenty-One Nations Conference . .214 Nixon and Khrushchev: The Kitchen Debate . .219 Antarctic Treaty . .224 Red Scare Executive Order 9835 . .233 Testimony of J. Edgar Hoover before the House Un-American Activities Committee . .241 Ronald Reagan’s Testimony before the House Un-American Activities Committee . .246 Testimony Regarding Communist Investigations . .251 Testimony of Whittaker Chambers (Excerpted) . .256 Senator Joseph McCarthy’s Speech to the Republican Women's Club of Wheeling, West Virginia . .262 “Declaration of Conscience” . .266 Rosenberg Case Excerpts . .272 In the Matter of J. Robert Oppenheimer . .280 Censure of Senator Joseph McCarthy . .287 VOLUME 2 Escalation and Détente The U2 Spy-Plane—Excerpts of a Speech by Khrushchev . .293 Eisenhower’s Farewell Address . .298 Telegram from the US Mission in Berlin regarding the Sealing-off of East Berlin . .303 Fidel Castro: Second Declaration of Havana . .307 JFK: “We Choose to Go to the Moon” . .311 JFK: Report on the Soviet Arms Buildup in Cuba . .316 vi JFK: “A Strategy of Peace” . .322 JFK: “Ich bin ein Berliner” . .329 Televised Interview with President Kennedy . .333 Limited Test Ban Treaty . .339 On Alleged Soviet and Cuban Connections with Lee Harvey Oswald . .343 The Gulf of Tonkin Incident . .347 LBJ: “Peace Without Conquest” . .351 Treaty on the Exploration and Use of Outer Space . .358 The “Two Thousand Words” Manifesto . .364 Nixon on the “Silent Majority” and “Vietnamization” . .368 Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty . .378 Kissinger Memo regarding Policy toward Chile . .384 Nuclear Accidents Measures Agreement . .391 Documents Relating to Normalization of Relations between the United States and the People's Republic of China . .395 Biological Weapons Convention . .401 Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty . .406 Jackson-Vanik Amendment . .412 Helsinki Accords (Excerpt) . .416 Margaret Thatcher’s “ Iron Lady” Speech . .419 US Contingency Plans in Light of Cuban-Soviet Intervention in Angola . .426 Charter 77 . .431 SALT II . .436 End Game Documents Relating to the Soviet Invasion of Afghanistan . .443 CIA Cable on the Situation in Poland . .448 Ronald Reagan's “Evil Empire” Speech . .452 Able Archer ‘83: The Soviet “War Scare” . .459 Ronald Reagan on the Strategic Defense Initiative . .467 Ronald Reagan's “Tear Down This Wall” Speech . .471 Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty . ..