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Chapter 32 - Conflict and Deadlock: The Eisenhower Years

Images and Maps

Sound clips from the 1950s

Map: Decolonization

CNN Cold War:Vietnam, 1954-1958

Dien Bien Phu

Sputnik: Fortieth Anniversay
(Audio File)

History of Little Rock Public Schools Desegregation

Photo Tour of the Civil Rights Movement

The Montgomery Bus Boycott

Today in History: Montgomery Bus Boycott

 

Primary Sources

Documents Relating to American Foreign Policy: The Cold War

Cold War International History Project

Time Man of the Year, 1954: John Foster Dulles

CNN Cold War: Documents from the 1950s

Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka May 17, 1954.

51 Years of Hidden History
(CIA Documents)

The Secret History of the CIA in Iran
(This site is associated with the New York Times.You will have to register, for free, in order to use it.)

Documents Relating to American Foreign Policy: Vietnam

Modern History Sourcebook: President Eisenhower: Letter to Ngo Dinh Diem, October 23, 1954

MISSION OF THE SPECIAL UNITED STATES REPRESENTATIVE IN VIET-NAM: Statement Issued by the White House, November 3, 1954

Modern History Sourcebook: Soviet Reaction to the Baghdad Pact, 1955

Modern History Sourcebook: President Nasser: Denouncement of the Proposal for a Canal Users' Association, 1956

Modern History Sourcebook: John Foster Dulles: Dynamic Peace, 1957

Modern History Sourcebook: President Eisenhower: The Eisenhower Doctrine on the Middle East, A Message to Congress, January 5, 1957

Modern History Sourcebook: TASS: Statement on the Eisenhower Doctrine, January 14 1957

New York Times, October 5, 1957 "Soviet Fires Earth Satellite Into Space; It Is Circling the Globe at 18,000 M.P.H.;

Sphere Tracked in 4 Crossings Over U.S.

John Fairbank, "China: Time for a Policy"

Cooper v. Aaron
(Also know as Brown II)

Modern History Sourcebook: Khrushchev and Eisenhower: Summit Statements, May 16 1960

The U2 Incident

The U-2 Incident 1960

 

Secondary Sources

Fred Greenstein DWIGHT EISENHOWER AND THE HIDDEN-HAND PRESIDENCY

Time 100: Ho Chi Minh

CNN Cold War: Dien Bien Phu

1956 
(An overview of the Hungarian Revolution. This site includes many images)

PBS Newshour Online: Remembering Little Rock

 

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