Traditions and Encounters, 4th Edition (Bentley)

Chapter 38: THE BIPOLAR WORLD

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National Security Council (NSC)-68
Secret U.S. government document that characterized the Cold War as fundamentally ideological, and that called for the militarization of the Containment Doctrine.
( http://www.fas.org/irp/offdocs/nsc-hst/nsc-68.htm )
1984: Moscow pulls out of US Olympics
BBC news piece on the Soviet Union's May 8, 1984 decision to boycott the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles.
( http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/may/8/newsid_2518000/2518931.stm )
National Security Council (NSC)-68
Secret U.S. government document that characterized the Cold War as fundamentally ideological, and that called for the militarization of the Containment Doctrine.
( http://www.clas.ufl.edu/users/mjacobs/Amh2020Fall02/NSC-68.html )
Dellums Committee Hearings on War Crimes in Vietnam, April 25, 1971
Veterans of the Vietnam War recount war crimes they had witnessed while serving in Indochina.
( http://members.aol.com/warlibrary/vwch1.htm )
Sixteen Political, Economic, and Ideological Points
Resolution issued by students during the November 1956 uprising against Soviet domination in Hungary.
( http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/1956hungary-16points.html )
Sixteen Political, Economic, and Ideological Points, Budapest, October 22, 1956
Student manifesto issued during the 1956 Hungarian uprising against the USSR.
( http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/1956hungary-16points.html )
Exchange of Notes on the Berlin Wall, 1961
Diplomatic exchange between the U.S. and USSR on the construction of the Berlin Wall.
( http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/1961berlin-usa-ussr.html )
Cambodia: Year Zero
Catholic Priest François Ponchaud's account of the post-Vietnam War Cambodian genocide.
( http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/1978cambodia.html )
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