Marshall Plan
- Marshall Plan Primary SourcesDigitized items in the George C. Marshall Archives covering the Marshall Plan, officially known as the European Recovery Program (ERP). The Marshall Plan was intended to rebuild the economies and spirits of western Europe.
NATO
- NATOBackground information from the U.S. State Department covering the beginning of NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organization) in 1949 by the United States, Canada, and several Western European nations to provide collective security against the Soviet Union.
Meeting the Challenges of a Post Cold War World by Call Number: Y 4.F 76/2:S.PRT.105-26ISBN: 9780160550041Publication Date: 1997-01-01
Space Race
- SputnikBackground information from the U.S. State Department on Sputnik, earth’s first artificial satellite launched by the Soviet Union.
- Sputnik and the Space Race: 1957 and BeyondLibrary of Congress Research Guide linking to digitized full text primary sources.
- President Eisenhower's Administration and the Space RaceDigitized primary sources from the Dwight D. Eisenhower Presidential Library on Sputnik and the Space Race
Cuban Missile Crisis
- Cuban Missile CrisisNational Security Agency's digitized primary sources covering the Cuban Missile Crisis of October 1962. The roles of human intelligence (HUMINT) and photographic intelligence (PHOTINT) in the Cuban Missile Crisis have been known from the beginning. Documents declassified and released in 1998 also reveal that signals intelligence (SIGINT) played an important part in managing the crisis.
- Foreign Relations of the United States, 1961-1963, Cuban Missile Crisis and Aftermath by Call Number: S 1.1:961-63/v.11ISBN: 9780160452109
Vietnam
Soviet-American Relations: The Détente Years, 1969-1972 by Call Number: S 1.2:SO 8/15ISBN: 9780160790652
- HeinOnline AcademicHeinOnline Foreign Relations of the United States presents the official documentary historical record of major U.S. foreign policy decisions and significant diplomatic activity. The series, which began in 1861 under President Abraham Lincoln, contains books and documents from various Presidential libraries as well as different governmental agencies. Browse by presidential administration (Kennedy, Johnson, Nixon) and then search within the Vietnam collections
Venona
- VENONAIn July 1995 the Intelligence Community ended a 50-year silence regarding the cryptology's VENONA Project. VENONA was the code name used for the U.S. Signals Intelligence effort to collect and decrypt the text of Soviet KGB and GRU messages from the 1940s. The National Security Agency has declassified over 3,000 messages related to VENONA.
