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Post World War II European History
Selected Resources
- The Armistice Agreement with Rumania, September 12, 1944
http://www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/wwii/rumania.htm
- A digital document of the agreement between the governments of United
States of America, the United Kingdom, the Union of Soviet Socialist
Republics, and the Government of Rumania, concerning an armistice. From
The Avalon Project
at the Yale Law School.
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Armistice Agreement with Hungary; January
20, 1945
http://www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/wwii/hungary.htm
- A digital document of th agreement concerning an armistice between the
Union of Soviet
Socialist Republics, the United Kinkdon of Great Britain,
Northern Ireland,, the United States of Ameria, and Hungary. From
The Avalon Project
at the Yale Law School.
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Bay of Pigs
http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB29/index.html
- On May 3, 2000, the National Security Archive released newly
declassified portions of the Taylor Commission Report, the report
from the commission charged by President Kennedy with investigating
the Bay of Pigs incident. The eight documents in this new release add
crucial details to the picture that emerged from prior, more heavily
censored releases of Taylor Commission materials in 1977 and 1986.
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The Berlin Crisis, 1958-1962
http://38.202.78.21/bcintro.htm
- The Berlin Crisis, 1958-1962 document collection provides a record of
U.S. policy during the most prolonged U.S.-Soviet crisis of the Cold War
era. From the Digital
National Security Archive.
- Brussels Treaty, March 17, 1948
http://www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/intdip/westeu/we001.htm
- Treaty of Economic, Social, and Cultural Collaboration and Collective
Self-defense (Brussels Treaty),
March 17, 1948. A digital document from The Avalon Project at
the Yale Law School.
- Cold War
http://metalab.unc.edu/expo/soviet.exhibit/coldwar.html
- Part of the Library of Congress's Soviet Archives exhibit. Contains
information on the Cold War including images of documents from
the Soviet Archives.
-
Cold War International History Project
http://cwihp.si.edu/default.htm
- The Cold War International History Project was established at
the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in Washington, D.C in
1991. CWIP
disseminates new
information and perspectives on the history of the Cold War as it emerges
from the former
Communist world.
-
At Cold War's End: US Intelligence on the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe,
1989-1991
http://www.odci.gov/csi/books/19335/art-1.html
- Declassified documents released by
the CIA. The Agency has only rarely declassified
and made available Cold War records.
- Cold War Submarines in the Cold War
- This site traces the history of submarines from their early
roots to their key role in the "Strategic Triad" of nuclear forces in
the Cold War. The primary focus of the site is post-WWII
nuclear powered submarines: fast attacks (smaller enemy sub hunters)
and boomers (ballistic missile subs). From The National Museum of American
History.
- The
Cuban Missile Crisis, 1962
http://38.202.78.21/cmintro.htm
- The Cuban Missile Crisis, 1962 presents an integrated, comprehensive
record of U.S. decisionmaking during the most dangerous U.S.-Soviet
confrontation in the nuclear era. From the the Digital National Security
Archive
- The Cuban Missile Crisis
http://nsa.gov/docs/cuba/
- The National Security Agency's analysis of the Cuban missile crisis.
Includes an extensive document archive of declassified files
associated with the crisis (requires Adobe Acrobat Reader)
and a full-length synopsis of events. This site highlights the
role that signals intelligence (SIGINT) played in the crisis.
- Falklands War 1982
http://www.umi.com/hp/Support/K12/GreatEvents/Falklands.html
- As reported in The New York Times: On March 20, 1982, Argentine
citizens came ashore on South Georgia, a
small island in the Falkland Island archipelago. A supplement to
Bell & Howell Information and Learning's information products for primary
and secondary schools.
Includes resource lists and suggested activities for further exploration.
- Falklands 15 Years On
http://www.thenews.co.uk/news/falklands/menu.htm
- The Argentinian invasion of the Falkland Islands in 1982 was a turning
point in modern British history. This dossier comes from a souvenir
magazine produced by The News, Portsmouth, UK, on May 26, 1997 to mark the
15th anniversary of the Falklands War.
- The Helsinki Accords
http://www.civnet.org/resoures/document/historic/helsinki.htm
- Representatives of thirty-five nations gathered in Helsinki, Finland,in 1975 for a Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe. The Final
Act of the Conference, known as the Helsinki Accords, sets forth a number
of basic human rights. Published by CIVITAS, an international,
non-governmental organization dedicated to promoting civic education and
civil society.
- For European Recovery:
The Fiftieth Anniversary of the Marshall Plan
http://lcweb.loc.gov/exhibits/marshall/
- In a now-celebrated speech delivered at the Harvard University
commencement on June 5, 1947, Secretary of State George Catlett Marshall
(1880-1959) proposed a solution to the wide-spread hunger, unemployment,
and housing shortages that faced Europeans in the aftermath of World War
II. To mark the fiftieth anniversary of Marshall's speech, the Library of
Congress presents this display on the origins and effects of the Marshall
Plan. It features photographs and cartoons from the Prints and Photographs
Division and items from the papers of Averell Harriman, the ERP special
representative in Europe from 1948 to 1950, whose collection in the
Library's Manuscript Division contains photographs, letters, memos, and
printed material that document the early days of this acclaimed
international initiative.
- The Marshall Plan, 1947
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/1947marshallplan1.html
- Speech Delivered by General George Marshall at Harvard University on
June 5, 1947. This text is part of the Internet Modern
History Sourcebook. The Sourcebook is a collection of public domain
and
copy-permitted texts for introductory level classes in modern European and
World history.
-
Maastricht Treaty on European Union, 1992
http://europa.eu.int/en/record/mt/top.html
- "On The Record"
Official Documents from the Union. This Treaty marks a new stage
in the process of
creating an ever
closer union among the peoples of Europe.
- The Berlin (Potsdam) Conference, July 17-August 2, 1945
http://www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/decade/decade17.htm
- A digital document of the Potsdam Conference: The Berlin Conference
of the
Three Heads of Government of the U. S. S. R., U. S. A., and U. K., which
took place from July 17 to August 2, 1945. From
The Avalon Project
at the Yale Law School.
- Margaret Thatcher
http://www.netsrq.com/~dbois/thatcher.html
- The first woman to hold the office of
prime minister of Great Britain (1979-1990). The information is
from Microsoft Encarta.
- Margaret Thatcher
http://www.newsunlimited.co.uk/Thatcher/Story_Three_Col/0,2763,45934,00.html
- Transcript of speech by Rt Hon William Hague MP at the dinner to
celebrate the 20th anniversary of Margaret Thatcher's election as prime
minister.
- Margaret Thatcher
http://www.ashbrook.org/events/memdin/thatcher/
- On-Line Speeches (RealAudio) from the "Margaret Thatcher
Tenth Annual
John M. Ashbrook Memorial Dinner
September 17, 1993."
From the John M. Ashbrook Center for
Public Affairs
Ashland University.
- Margaret Thatcher
http://www.heritage.org/library/lecture/hl650.html
- WHAT WE CAN LEARN
FROM MARGARET THATCHER. Sir Rhodes Boyson, Heritage Foundatioin
Lecture held on October 3-6, 1999. Published by
The Heritage Foundation
- The Treaty of Rome
http://www.tufts.edu/departments/fletcher/multi/texts/rome/contents.html
- Full text of the Treaty establishing the European Community
as Amended by Subsequent Treaties.
- The Yalta Conference, February, 1945
http://www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/wwii/yalta.htm
- The text of the agreements reached at the Crimea (Yalta) Conference
between President Roosevelt, Prime Minister Churchill and Generalissimo
Stalin, as released by the State Department. A digital document from The Avalon Project at
the Yale Law School.
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