Part 1 Key international relations documents

The Origins and Development of the Cold War, 1945–53

Chapter 1

Yalta Conference, February 4 - 11, 1945
http://www.taiwandocuments.org/yalta.htm

Potsdam Declaration, July 26, 1945
http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Potsdam_Declaration

Truman Doctrine, March 12, 1947
http://www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/trudoc.htm

Chapter 2

The Marshall Plan, June 5, 1947
http://www.fordham.edu/HALSALL/MOD/1947marshallplan1.html

Report on the international situation to the Cominform, September 22, 1947
http://edition.cnn.com/SPECIALS/cold.war/episodes/04/documents/cominform.html

Restatement of Policy on Germany, September 6, 1946
http://www.daz.org/enByrnes-Rede.html

The Long Telegram, February 22, 1946
http://www.ntanet.net/KENNAN.html

The Sinews of Peace, Winston Churchill speech, March 5, 1946
http://www.nato.int/docu/speech/1946/s460305a_e.htm

Speech delivered by Stalin at a meeting of voters of the Stalin electoral district, February 9, 1946
http://www.coldwarfiles.org/files/Documents/Stalinelectionspeech.pdf

Chapter 4

The North Atlantic Treaty, April 4, 1949
http://www.nato.int/docu/basictxt/treaty.htm

NSC 68: United States Objectives and Programs for National Security, April 14, 1950
http://www.fas.org/irp/offdocs/nsc-hst/nsc-68.htm

Declaration of 9 May 1950
http://europa.eu/abc/symbols/9-may/decl_en.htm

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