112. Confrontation and Detente, 1955-1975

• [Image John Foster Dulles]
• [Primary Source Khrushchev and Eisenhower, Summit Statements, 1960]
• [Primary Source Eisenhower Doctrine]
• [Image Sputnik, 1958]
• [Image Explorer I]
• [Image American Titan II nuclear missile]

1. The Cold War in the 1960s
• [Secondary Source The Beginning of the Peace Corps]
• [Primary Source Alberto Lleras, Report on the Alliance for Progress, 1963]
• [Secondary Discussion/Primary Source Civil defense program]
• [Image Advertising bomb shelters]
• [Image Supplies for a well-stocked bomb shelter]
• [Image Bomb shelter]
• [Primary Source Berlin Wall Exchange of Notes on the Berlin Wall, 1961]


• [Primary Source Cuban Missile Crisis Debate, 1962]
• [Primary Source President John Kennedy, Address on the Cuban Crisis, 1962]
• [Map Cuba during missile crisis]


• [Image Ngo Dinh Diem]
• [Image Viet Cong]
• [Primary Source President Eisenhower, Aid to the State of Viet-Nam, 1954]
• [Primary Source Gulf of Tonkin Incident, 1964]
• [Image Massive bombing1965-69]
• [Image Anti-war protest, Washington DC, early 1970s]
• [Primary Sources Paris Peace talks]
• [Image Signing the cease-fire agreement, January 1973]
• [Image Khmer Rouge guerillas]
• [Primary Source Fran's Ponchaud, Cambodia: Year Zero, 1978]

2. Brezhnev and the "Prague Spring" in Eastern Europe
• [Image Alexander Dubcek]
• [Images Soviet army in Prague, 1968]
• [Primary Source Brezhnev Doctrine, 1968]

3. Brezhnev and Nixon
• [Image Helsinki conference]

113. Collapse and Recovery of the European and Global Economy: The 1970s and 1980s

1. The Recession: Stagnation and Inflation
• [Primary Source Ronald Reagan, Evil Empire Speech, 1982]

2. Economic and Political Change in Western Europe
• [Image Unemployed in 1970s UK]
• [Primary Source New Labour manifesto, 1997]
• [Image Helmut Schmidt]

3. The Enlarged European Community: Problems and Opportunities

4. Toward a "Single Europe": the European Union

114. The Cold War Rekindled and Defused

• [Primary Source SALT II treaty, 1979]
• [Image Soviet advisors in Afghanistan, 1988]

• [Image American planes bombed military installations in Libya]
• [Image Terrorist attack on American and French installations in Lebanon, 1983]

1. Nuclear Arms Control
• [Primary Source/Secondary Discussion Partial test-ban treaty]
• [Image Chernobyl]
• [Primary Source Treaty establishing the "hot line," 1963]