Historical overview -- Origins and early years of the Cold War -- McCarthyism, Eisenhower, Kennedy, and the culture of the Cold War -- Cuban missile crisis -- Vietnam, détente, and Watergate -- The end of the Cold War and beyond -- Biographies : Dean Acheson ; Elizabeth T. Bentley ; Charles E. Bohlen ; John Foster Dulles ; J. William Fulbright ; William Franklin "Billy" Graham, Jr. ; Thomas Emmet Hayden ; J. [John] Edgar Hoover ; George F. Kennan ; Robert F. Kennedy ; Heinz Alfred "Henry" Kissinger ; Fulton Lewis, Jr. ; George C. Marshall ; Joseph R. McCarthy ; George McGovern ; Arthur A. Miller ; Edward R. Murrow ; Paul H. Nitze ; Fulton John Sheen -- Primary documents : Yalta Agreement, February 11, 1945 ; "The Long Telegram," George F. Kennan, February 22, 1946 ; The Truman Doctrine, March 12, 1947 ; Truman Loyalty Oath, March 21, 1947 ; The Marshall Plan, June 5, 1947 ; Senator Joseph McCarthy's Lincoln Day Speech, Wheeling, West Virginia, February 9, 1950 ; National Security Council Report 68, United States objectives and programs for national security, April 14, 1950 ; "Declaration of Conscience," Senator Margaret Chase Smith, June 1, 1950 ; Speech on Massive Retaliation, Secretary of State John Foster Dulles, January 12, 1954 ; President Dwight D. Eisenhower's Farewell Address, January 17, 1961 ; Address to the nation by President John F. Kennedy on the Cuban Missile Crisis, October 22, 1962 ; President John F. Kennedy's "Ich bin ein Berliner" speech, June 26, 1963 ; President Lyndon B. Johnson's Address at The Johns Hopkins University, "Peace without Conquest," April 7, 1965 ; Detente with the Soviet Union, June 28, 1968 ; Joint Communique of the United States of America and the People's Republic of China, the Shanghai Communique, February 27, 1972 ; President Jimmy Carter's Remarks at the Signing of the Peace Treaties between Egypt and Israel, March 26,1979 ; President Ronald Reagan's Remarks at the Annual Convention of the National Association of Evangelicals, "The Evil Empire" Speech, Orlando, Florida, March 8, 1983 ; President Ronald Reagan's "Tear Down This Wall" Speech, Berlin, June 12, 1987 ; Intermediate-range Nuclear Forces Treaty ; President George H.W. Bush's State of the Union Address, January 28, 1992.