The following pages provide additional links to online resources:

Think of these pages as electronic reserves. Refer students to them for online research.

Each page has a unique URL that you can link to from your own web page.

* Are you interested in establishing your own eReserves? With your adoption of The Essential America, Norton will send you these files for use on your school's server. For more information contact Steve Hoge [shoge@wwnorton.com]

- eReserves Index

Chapter 30 - The Fair Deal and Containment

Images and Maps

Map: The Cold War, 1945-1960

Map: The Post War Era

CNN Interactive: The Cold War

Joseph Stalin Sound and Pictures

United Nations Pictures

The Harry S. Truman Library and Museum

Sir Winston Churchill, "The Sinews of Peace"
(Text and audio file)

"Remembering the GI Bulge": The Servicemen's Readjustment Act of 1944, "The GI Bill"

Jackie Robinson and Other Baseball Highlights, 1860s-1960s

Baseball, the Color Line, and Jackie Robinson

Map: Election of 1948

Alger Hiss Pictures

Douglas MacArthur Audio Files

Joseph McCarthy Sounds

Senator Joseph McCarthy
(Multimedia files)

Korean War Images

Maps: The Korean War, 1950-1953

 

Primary Sources

Project WhistleStop
(From the Truman Library)

Charter of the United Nations

The Bretton Woods Agreements

Universal Declaration of Human Rights

CNN Cold War Interactive: Interview with George Kennan

Cold War International History Project

Foreign Relations of the United States: Emergence of the Intelligence Establishment, 1945-1950

George Kennan: The Long Telegram

The Truman Doctrine: Documents

Albert Einstein, "Atomic War or Peace"

Foreign Relations of the United States: The National Security Act of 1947

The Taft-Hartley Act, 1947

Harry Truman, NAACP Address, June 28, 1947

Truman Library: The 1948 Campaign

Excerpts from Truman's Address to the Democratic Convention, July 15, 1948

Executive Order Establishing the President's Committee on Equality of Treatment and Opportunity in the Armed Services, July 26, 1948

Southern Response to Civil Rights Speech, April 8, 1948

American Views on the Situation in China, 1947 
(From the Modern History Sourcebook)

The North Atlantic Treaty, 1949
(From the Modern History Sourcebook)

The Berlin Airlift Documentary Materials

Alger Hiss Grand Jury Testimony

Robert G. Whalen, "Hiss and Chambers: Strange Story of Two Men,"

McCarran Act or Internal Security Act of 1950

Joseph R. McCarthy, from Speech Delivered to the Women’s Club of Wheeling, 1950

Andrei A. Gromyko, "On American Intervention in Korea, 1950"
(From the Modern History Sourcebook)

Report of The United Nations Commission on Korea, 1950
(From the Modern History Sourcebook)

Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr., "The New Isolationism"

 

Secondary Sources

The Soviet Union and the United States
(Also includes primary sources)

For European Recovery: The Fiftieth Anniversary of the Marshall Plan 
(This site includes several primary sources.)

Efstathios T. Fakiolas, "Kennan's Long Telegram and NSC-68: A Comparative Analysis,"
(From the East European Quarterly, Vol. 31, no. 4, January 1998)

Servicemen's Readjustment Act of 1944 and Teacher Preparation Homepage

Zachary Karabell, The Last Campaign: How Harry Truman Won the 1948 Election, Chapter 1

David McCullough, "Harry S. Truman"
(Excerpt from essay)

Jesse Friedman, "The Fight For America: Senator Joseph McCarthy"

James Thomas Gay, "The Alger Hiss Spy Case"

Russell Aiuto, "The Rosenbergs: A Case of Love, Espionage, Deceit, and Betrayal"

Jonathan D. Spence, "Mao Zedong"

 

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