History 102 Readings Schedule
Spring 2009
Thursday January 15: Cold War: Origins and Impact
Churchill, The Iron Curtain
speech (1946)
The Truman Doctrine (1947)
The Marshall Plan (1947)
Vyshinsky Speech to the United Nations
(1947)
Testimony of J. Edgar Hoover
(1947)
"Communists Should Not Teach
in Universities" (1949)
"Education in
Review" (1949)
"President Proclaims a
National Emergency..."
Acheson's Speech on Asia (1950)
Speech by Senator Joseph McCarthy
(1950)
Eisenhower,
The
Domino Theory (1954)
Discussion Questions
Thursday January 29: Vietnam Wars: Origins and Impact
Vietnamese
Declaration of Independence (1945)
Kennedy, The Domino Theory (1963)
"Congress Backs
Johnson on Resolution..."
White Paper on Vietnam (1965)
Letter of Ho Chi Minh (1967)
Cronkite, "We Are Mired In
Stalemate" (1968)
Nixon, The Silent Majority
(1969)
Life, One Week's Dead in Vietnam
(1969)
"Vietnamese say GI's Slew 567...."
"U.S. Forces Out of
Vietnam...."
Vietnam Death Toll
Discussion Questions
Thursday March 5: Decolonization, Nationalism, and Nation Building
Israel Declaration of Independence
(1948)
Israel at Independence (1948)
The Case for Apartheid (1953)
French Decolonization (1956)
Imre Nagy, Last Speech (1956)
Nehru on Nonalignment (1956)
Nelson Mandela, The New Menace
(1958)
U.N. Resolution 1514 (1960)
Discussion Questions
Tuesday March 31: Problems, Problems, Problems.....
Brezhnev Doctrine
Kennedy's Speech on Cuba
Editorial: The
Aging Population
Editorial: Kosovo
Editorial: Overpopulation
Editorial: United Nations
Statistics
Yeltsin's Speech, August 19, 1991
Gorbachev's Speech, December 7, 1988
The London Declaration, 1990
Gorbachev's Speech, August 22, 1991
CNN: The 1991 Coup
Discussion Questions