Sean Brennan

The Essential Speeches of the Cold War (eBook, PDF)

A Primary Source Collection

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

This book is a primary source collection of thirty speeches of the Cold War from 1917 to 1991, representing a cross section of leaders on all sides of the conflict from North America, the Caribbean, Europe, and Asia.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 258
• Erscheinungstermin: 24. September 2024
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781040151372
• Artikelnr.: 72275966

Autorenporträt

Sean Brennan is Professor of History at the University of Scranton and an expert on the history of 20th-century Europe and the Cold War. He is the author of Warren Austin, Henry Cabot Lodge Jr, and the Cold War at the United Nations, 1947-1960 (2022).

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction 1. Leon Trotsky Calls for World Revolution
November 8
1917 2. Adolf Hitler Predicts the Cold War
April 2
1945 3. Josef Stalin Argues the Laws of History Will Soon End the World War II Alliance
February 9
1946 4. Winston Churchill Discusses the Fall of the Iron Curtain
March 5
1946 5. The Truman Doctrine
March 12
1947 6. George Marshall Gives the Most Important Commencement Address in History
June 5
1947 7. Andrei Zhdanov Announces a World Split in Two
September 22
1947 8. Ernest Bevin Warns of the Soviet Threat
January 22
1948 9. Ernst Reuter Announces West Berlin Will Not Give In
September 9
1948 10. Mao Zedong Announces the Founding of the People's Republic of China
October 1
1949 11. 12. Douglas MacArthur Declares There Is No Substitute for Victory
April 16
1951 13. Dwight Eisenhower Offers a Chance for Peace
April 16
1953 14. 15. 16. 17. John F. Kennedy Declares
"Ich Bin Ein Berliner"
June 26
1963 18. Charles de Gaulle Bids Au Revoir to NATO
February 21
1966 19. 20. Richard Nixon Plans a Change in Cold War Tactics
July 25
1969 21. Gerald Ford and the Height of Détente
August 1
1975 22. Jimmy Carter Calls for a New Approach to the Cold War
May 22
1977 23. Ronald Reagan and the Evil Empire
March 8
1983 24.25. "You Cannot Imagine It Unless You've Been There": 26. Reagan Calls for the End of the Berlin Wall
June 12
1987 27. Helmut Kohl Calls for a Reunited Germany
December 19
1989 28. George H.W. Bush orders Chicken Kyiv
August 1
1991 29. Boris Yeltsin Stands His Ground
August 19
1991 30. Gorbachev Announces an End to the Twentieth Century
December 25
1991