TEACHER’S NOTE: Students should examine the Cold War from the perspectives of Great Britain, France, Germany, the Soviet Union, the satellite nations of Eastern Europe, and the developing nations of Africa, Asia, and Latin America . Suggested Documents: Winston Churchill’s “Iron Curtain” speech, memoirs; newspapers; books of the leading figures of the Cold War era; geopolitical maps; videotapes
What role did the United Nations play in Korea?
How did Korean expectations of what would happen to their country after the war differ from that of the Super Powers?
What possibility is there for the reunification of Korea?
What threat does North Korea pose today?
Map Korean War
US State Department: North Vietnamese Aggression, 1965
U.S. State Department: Aggression from the North, February 27, 1965
President Lyndon Johnson and Ho Chi Minh: Letter Exchange, 1967
John Kerry, for Vietnam Veterans Against the War: Statement to the Senate Committee of Foreign Relations, 1971
President Nasser: Denouncement of the Proposal for a Canal Users' Association, 1956
Anwar el Sadat: Afro-Asian Solidarity and the World Mission of the Peoples of Africa and Asia, 1957
Tahâ Hussein: From The Future of Culture in Egypt, excerpts,1954
Ayatollah Khomeini: The Uprising of Khurdad 15, 1979
V.S. Naipaul: Among the Believers, The Atlantic Monthly, July 1981,
Hamas Covenant, 1988
Documents Relating to American Foreign Policy--The Cuban Missile Crisis
Nikita Khruschchev: Speech to the RFSR Teacher's Congress - on Cuba, Moscow, July 9, 1960
John F. Kennedy: The Lesson of Cuba, 1961
United Nations: Cuban Missile Crisis Debate, 1962
John F. Kennedy: Address on the Cuban Crisis, October 22, 1962
Arthur
Schlesinger, Jr.: The
Lowering Hemisphere, The Atlantic Monthly, January, 1970,
On US policy in Latin America.