For Monday 1/23: The Atomic Age and the Cold War
by admin - January 20th, 2012
Reading: Moss 19-34 and HOT 13-18, 38-45 (Kennan, Good Housekeeping and Eisenhower)
Additional Resources:
Interactive map of Europe in the 20th century (BBC)
George Kennan’s “Long Telegram” from Moscow in 1946 (full text online)
Winston Churchill’s “Iron Curtain” speech, delivered March 1946
Economic Recovery Act of 1948, aka “The Marshall Plan”
The Truman Doctrine speech, 1947
NSC-68, 1950 top-secret policy report, declassified in 1975 (see the full page-by-page scan at the Truman Library)
Cold War Museum
Nuclear toys and Atomic Brand Names (Retronaut)
“Atomic Energy as a Force for Good” (1955) Part I (13:09)
