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Contents

• World Unity
  • The United Nations Organization
  • Human Rights: Universal Ideals or a Western Impositions?
• The Cold War
  • Beginnings
  • Berlin Crises
  • Cuban Crises
  • Cold Warriors
  • Various Detentes
• Literary Reflections

World Unity

• The United Nations
  • WEB United Nations Documents [At Mt. Holyoke]
  • WEB United Nations Documents [At Minnesota]
  • The Dumbarton Oaks Agreement [At ibiblio]
  • United Nations Charter, 1945 [At Yale]
• Human Rights: Universal Ideals or a Western Impositions?
  • WEB The Laws of War  [At Yale]
    The Hague Conventions, Geneva Conventions, and Pacific Protocol.
  • WEB International Human Rights Instruments [At Minnesota]
    Texts of all major treaties, agreements, etc. since 1945, in English. Many also in French and Spanish.
  • WWW International Constitutional Law [Added 7/20/98]
    Maintains online texts in English, and search machines for comparative studies of constitutions.
  • Universal Declaration of Human Rights, 1948 [At this Site]
  • American Declaration of the Rights and Duties of Man [At Democracy.gov]
    Adopted by the Ninth International Conference of American States at Bogota, Colombia, 1948.
  • European Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms, 1950 [At coe.int]
  • The Helsinki Accords, 1975 [At Civnet]
  • Universal Declaration on the Human Genome and Human Rights, 199? [At Minnesota]
  • Female Genital Mutilation [At Religious Tolerance][Summary]
  • Freedom of Speech and Salman Rushdie's Satanic Verses [At Internet Archive, from Unn.Uk] - a Muslim discussion.
  • Nelson Mandela: Address on Human Rights, 1991 [At Civnet]
  • Elie Wiesel: Dedication of Holocaust Museum, 1993  [At Civnet]

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The Cold War

• WEB Cold War International History Project
  The site has a huge and accessible online library.
• WEB Cold War Hot Links
• WEB Coldwar Timeline
• WEB Documents Relating to American Foreign Policy--the Cold War [At Mt. Holyoke]
• WEB Documents Relating to American Foreign Policy--NATO [At Mt. Holyoke]
• WEB Documents on the Truman Doctrine [At Truman Library]
• The Atlantic Charter, 1941
• Beginnings
  • Winston S. Churchill (1874-1965): "Iron Curtain" Speech, 1946, excerpts [At this Site], and here [At Then Again]
  • Winston S. Churchill (1874-1965): Words on War - contains the speech live in audio files. [At Internet Archive]
  • Joseph Stalin: Response to Churchill's Iron Curtain Speech, 1946 [At this Site]
  • The Truman Doctrine, 1947 [At this Site]
  • The North Atlantic Treaty, 1949 [At this Site]
  • NATO Treaty, 1949, [At Yale]
  • The U2 Incident, 1960 [At Yale]
• Berlin Crises
  • USA and USSR: Exchange of Notes on the Berlin Wall, 1961 [At this Site]
• Cuban Crises
  • WEB Documents Relating to American Foreign Policy--The Cuban Missile Crisis [At Mt. Holyoke]
  • Nikita Khruschchev:  Speech to the RFSR Teacher's Congress - on Cuba, Moscow, July 9, 1960  [At this Site]
  • John F. Kennedy: The Lesson of Cuba, 1961 [At this Site]
  • United Nations: Cuban Missile Crisis Debate, 1962 [At this Site]
  • John F. Kennedy: Address on the Cuban Crisis, October 22, 1962 [At this Site]
• Cold Warriors
  • United States Atomic Energy Commission: In The Matter of J. Robert Oppenheimer [At Yale]
    Texts of Principal Documents and Letters of Personnel Security Board, General Manager, Commissioners Washington, D.C., May 27, 1954, through June 29, 1954
  • President Eisenhower: The Eisenhower Doctrine on the Middle
  • TASS: Statement on the Eisenhower Doctrine, January 14 1957 [At this Site]
  • John Foster Dulles: Dynamic Peace, 1957  [At this Site]
  • Khrushchev and Eisenhower: Summit Statements, May 16 1960  [At this Site]
  • Nikita Krushchev: Address to the UN General Assembly, Sept. 23 1960 [At this Site]
  • East, A Message to Congress, January 5, 1957  [At this Site]
  • President John F. Kennedy: Inaugural Address, 1961 [At this Site]
  • President John F. Kennedy: Towards a Strategy of Peace, June 10, 1963  [At this Site]
  • A. V. Efimov: Modern History: Textbook for the Ninth Form, 1965. [At MCPS]
    A Soviet textbook on US History from the height of the Cold War.
• Various Detentes
  • Non-proliferation of Nuclear Weapons Treaty 1968 [At Disarmament.un.org]

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Literary Reflections

• WEB The Political Writings of George Orwell 1937-1945
  With a wide selection of Orwell's writings.
• George Orwell (1903-1950): Politics and the English Language [At Orwell.ru][Full Text]
• George Orwell (1903-1950): Nationalism, 1945 [At resort.com]
• George Orwell (1903-1950): 1984, excerpts [At Internet Archive, from Clinch Valley College]
• George Orwell (1903-1950): Animal Farm: A Fairy Story, 1946, full text [At Online Literature]
  The site claims the US copyright is expired.
• Noam Chomsky: Rethinking Camelot: JFK, the Vietnam War, and U.S. Political Culture [At Z Mag][Modern Opinion Piece]

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NOTES:

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