The Cold War: a history in documents

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Early antagonism : Origin of the atomic bomb

Tensions and strategies

The Truman doctrine

The Marshall plan

A Soviet bomb

The China white paper

NSC-68

War in Korea

The anticommunist crusade : Hollywood and HUAC

Chambers vs. Hiss

The Rosenbergs on trial

Senator Joe McCarthy

Cultural responses

Army vs. McCarthy

To the brink : Eisenhower's inaugural address

Liberation of captive peoples

The domino theory

Unstable peace

Kennedy's inaugural address

Bay of pigs

Standing up to the Soviets

The Cuban missile crisis

The atom unleashed

Catastrophe in Vietnam : French colonial rule

War in Indochina

The Geneva conference

Nation building in Vietnam

Horrors of war

Antiwar movement

Vietnamization

Reunification

An end at last : The nuclear test ban treaty of 1963

SALT treaties

Reagan's nuclear strategy

An end to the cold war.