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The Cold War reading list from the text book

665-668
838-843

844-850

851-857

896-902

984
1025
1045.1047
1053.1054

The Red Scare; Eugene Debs; the Palmer


Raids; Sacco and Vanzetti
Definition of Cold War; nature of the Cold War;
containment; deadlock over atomic weapons;
Marshall Plan; Berlin airlift; NATO;
China goes communist; Korea a case study of
Cold War politics; conflict between Truman and
MacArthur; brinksmanship; a brief thaw in the
Cold War
The Cold War at home; House Un-American
Activities Committee; Hollywood Ten; Alger
Hiss; the Rosenbergs; Internal Security Act;
McCarthyism its definition, impact, downfall;
bomb shelters; space race
Kennedy and the Cold War; flexible response;
Bay of Pigs misadventure; Berlin crisis; Cuban
Missile Crisis
Vietnam another Cold War case study
The Cold War continues
Reagan and the Cold War; SDI;
Cold War tensions ease; Gorbachev; glasnost
perestroika

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