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Category Archives: Cold War
“Have you no sense of decency, sir?” McCarthy – Army Hearings, June 9, 1954
Senator Joseph McCarthy and his legal counsel Roy Cohn After five years of using his position on the Committee of Un-American Activities to elevate his career by tearing down others, Senator Joseph McCarthy’s tactics came to an abrupt end when … Continue reading
Adlai Stevenson “True Patriotism” Speech, Madison Square Garden, New York City, 1952
Illinois Governor Adlai Stevenson ran as the Democratic candidate for President against Eisenhower in 1952. The Democrats were on the defensive, having been charged by McCarthy and other Republicans with having allowed Communists to infiltrate the government and for overseeing … Continue reading
General Douglas MacArthur Farewell Address to Congress (1951)
Douglas MacArthur is one of the commanding figures of twentieth-century American history. Having served in the Philippines at the start of the century, and distinguished himself in the trenches of World War I, MacArthur rose to great prominence in the … Continue reading
Truman orders U.S. troops into Korea, June 27, 1950
The United States’ containment policy against Communism resulted in potential conflicts all over the world. Iran, Greece and all of Eastern Europe became potential flash points in the efforts to hold back the tide of Soviet communism. In 1949, … Continue reading
Executive Order 9981 – Truman Ends Segregation in the U.S. Military – July 26, 1948
Executive Order 9981: The End of U.S. Military Segregation After former slaves fought on the Union side in the Civil War, the government abolished slavery and enfranchised black men to vote. When black regiments fought heroically in World War II, … Continue reading
Marshall Plan Speech, Harvard, June 5,1947
Two years after World War II ended, Europe was an economic wreck. Poverty and disease were rampant. Dislocation was still a problem. Even in England, food rations were tighter than during wartime. The Soviet Union loomed as an ominous presence … Continue reading
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Bernard Baruch “Quick and the Dead” U.N. Speech for the Disarmament of Atomic Weapons 1946
The bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki ended World War II, but it unleashed the difficult problem of what to do with atomic weapons. While in the past new weapons had escalated man’s capacity to inflict damage upon one another, … Continue reading
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George Kennan & the U.S. Policy of Containment
By 1947, all pretense of cooperation between the United States and the Soviet Union had been abandoned. Their wartime alliance was over. A new “cold war” between capitalism and communism was underway on a global scale. The emergence of nuclear … Continue reading
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George H.W. Bush Calls for “A New World of Freedom” 1989, Primary Source Documents with Reading Questions
George H.W. Bush Calls for “A New World of Freedom” 1989 Speaking of America: Volume II Since 1865 by Laura A. Belmonte Upon becoming Soviet premier in 1985, Mikhail Gorbachev rapidly transformed the USSR. His glasnost policy abolished many … Continue reading
Ronald Reagan “Evil Empire” Speech 1983, Cold War
The phrase evil empire was applied to the Soviet Union especially by U.S. President Ronald Reagan, who took an aggressive, hard-line stance that favored matching and exceeding the Soviet Union’s strategic and global military capabilities, in calling for a … Continue reading
