Volume 1. Postwar Cold War. Potsdam Agreement ; Stalin's Election Speech, 1946 ; Churchill's "Iron Curtain" Speech ; Truman Doctrine Speech ; Speech on the Marshall Plan ; "The Sources of Soviet Content" ; Inter-American Treaty of Reciprocal Assistance (Rio Treaty) ; Vyshinky's Speech to the UN General Assembly ; NATO Treaty ; Memorandum on Lifting the Soviet Blockade ; Dean Acheson on the "Loss" of China ; Atomic Explosion in the USSR ; International Control of Atomic Energy ; NSC 68: "United States Objectives and Programs for National Security" ; Report to the American People on Korea and US Policy in the Far East ; Statement by President Truman upon Signing the Mutual Security Act ; President Eisenhower: "The Chance for Peace" ; Mutual Defense Treaty between the United States and the Republic of Korea ; A "New Look" at National Defense Policy ; "Atoms for Peace" ; CIA Summary of the Overthrow of Premier Mossadeq of Iran ; Balkan Pact ; President Eisenhower to the President of the Council of Ministers of Vietnam ; Sino-American Mutual Defense Treaty ; Baghdad Pact ; President Sukarno's Address at the Bandung Conference ; Warsaw Pact ; Khrushchev on the "Cult of Personality" and Its Consequences ; Senator John F. Kennedy on America's Stake in Vietnam ; Resolution of Hungarian Student Protestors ; Mao on the "Correct Handling of Contradictions among the People" ; Launching of the Sputnik Satellite ; Eisenhower on Science in National Security ; "Communism in the Americas" ; Fidel Castro's Speech at Twenty-One Nations Conference ; Nixon and Khrushchev: The Kitchen Debate ; Antarctic Treaty -- Red Scare. Executive Order 9835 ; Testimony of J. Edgar Hoover before the House Un-American Activities Committee ; Ronald Reagan's Testimony before the House Un-American Activities Committee ; Testimony Regarding Communist Investigations ; Testimony of Whittaker Chambers (Excerpted) ; Senator Joseph McCarthy's Speech to the Republican Women's Club of Wheeling, West Virginia ; "Declaration of Conscience" ; Rosenberg Case Excerpts ; In the Matter of J. Robert Oppenheimer ; Censure of Senator Joseph McCarthy --

Volume 2. Escalation and Détente. The U2 Spy Plane: Excerpts of a Speech by Khrushchev ; Eisenhower's Farewell Address ; Telegram from the US Mission in Berlin regarding the Sealing-off of East Berlin ; Fidel Castro: Second Declaration of Havana ; JFK: "We Choose to Go to the Moon" ; JFK: Report on the Soviet Arms Buildup in Cuba ; JFK: "A Strategy of Peace" ; JFK: "Ich bin ein Berliner" ; Televised Interview with President Kennedy ; Limited Test Ban Treaty ; On Alleged Soviet and Cuban Connections with Lee Harvey Oswald ; The Gulf of Tonkin Incident ; LBJ: "Peace Without Conquest" ; Treaty on the Exploration and Use of Outer Space ; The "Two Thousand Words" Manifesto ; Nixon on the "Silent Majority" and "Vietnamization" ; Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty ; Kissinger Memo regarding Policy toward Chile ; Nuclear Accidents Measures Agreeement ; Documents Relating to Normalization of Relations between the United States and the People's Republic of China ; Biological Weapons Convention ; Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty ; Jackson-Vanik Amendment ; Helsinki Accords (Excerpt) ; Margaret Thatcher's "Iron Lady" Speech ; US Contingency Plans in Light of Cuban-Soviet Intervention in Angola ; Charter 77 ; SALT II -- End Game. Documents Relating to the Soviet Invasion of Afghanistan ; CIA Cable on the Situation in Poland ; Ronald Reagan's "Evil Empire" Speech ; Able Archer '83: The Soviet "War Scare" ; Ronald Reagan on the Strategic Defense Initiative ; Ronald Reagan's "Tear Down This Wall" Speech ; Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty ; Mikhail Gorbachev's UN Speech ; US Embassy Cables Concerning The Crackdown on Tiananmen Square ; Egon Krenz Letter to Mikhail Gorbachev ; Gorbachev's Farewell Address -- Appendixes. Chronological List ; Web Resources ; Bibliography ; Index.