Isolationism vs. Internationalism


The following resources will help you in your exploration of isolationism vs. internationalism

 Online Databases

EBSCO Host - History Reference Center Access newspaper and magazine articles from the past (Select Timeline U.S. History (1800 - 1860). Select Advanced Search to enter multiple keywords.
Student Resource Center Gold - Offers more than 1,100 full-text periodicals and newspapers, primary sources, creative works, and multimedia, including hours of video and audio clips and podcasts
 

 Internet Sites

1940's CNN Cold War - Historical Documents: The Marshall Plan: www.cnn.com/SPECIALS/cold.war/episodes/03/documents/marshall.plan/

CNN Cold War - Historical Documents: The Truman Doctrine: www.cnn.com/SPECIALS/cold.war/episodes/03/documents/truman/

CNN Cold War - Yalta: www.cnn.com/SPECIALS/cold.war/episodes/01/documents/yalta.html

Center for Defense Information - Nuclear Weapons Database - The United States Arsenal: www.cdi.org/issues/nukef&f/database/usnukes.html

Cold War - Did Truman Cause the Cold War? (Truman Doctrine and Marshall Plan)
http://www.learningcurve.gov.uk/coldwar/G3/cs3/

Cold War International History Project - Soviet Nuclear Development: www.wilsoncenter.org/index.cfm?topic_id=1409&fuseaction=va2.browse&sort=
Collection&item=Soviet%20Nuclear%20Development

The Cold War Museum - The Berlin Blockade: http://www.coldwar.org/articles/40s/berlin_blockade.asp

Cold War Museum - H Bomb Development Survey: http://www.coldwar.org/articles/40s/h_bomb.html

History of East Germany: http://www.germannotes.com/hist_east_overview.shtml

PBS - Cold War - Berlin Blockade: www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/bomb/peopleevents/pandeAMEX49.html

U.S. Department of State - The Marshall Plan: www.america.gov/st/washfile-english/2005/April/200504291439291CJsamohT0.6520502.html
 

1950's Agreement on the Cessation of the Hostilities in Viet-Nam, July 20th, 1954 (Geneva Accords): http://www.mtholyoke.edu/acad/intrel/genevacc.htm

Brinkmanship: http://www.cubacrisis.net/angl/pages/aubordset_02.html

BBC News - The Cold War: The Korean War - An Overview: www.bbc.co.uk/history/worldwars/coldwar/korea_hickey_01.shtml

BBC News - China's Communist Revolution: http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/static/special_report/1999/09/99/china_50/

BBC News - Timeline: NATO: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/country_profiles/1543000.stm

Cold War International History Project - The Korean War: www.wilsoncenter.org/index.cfm?topic_id=1409&fuseaction=va2.browse&sort=
Collection&item=The%20Korean%20War

The Eisenhower Doctrine on the Middle East, A Message to Congress, January 5th, 1957: http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/1957eisenhowerdoctrine.html

An Illustrated History of the Communist Party of China: http://www.china.org.cn/english/features/45954.htm

MSN Encarta - Geneva Accords: http://encarta.msn.com/encyclopedia_761588338/geneva_accords.html

Timeline - NATO : http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2003/feb/11/nato.simonjeffery

U.S. Department of State - The Eisenhower Doctrine: http://www.state.gov/r/pa/ho/time/lw/82548.htm

1960's BBC News - 1967 Middle East War: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/shared/spl/hi/guides/457000/457035/html/default.stm

BBC News - John F. Kennedy and the Cuban Missile Crisis: www.bbc.co.uk/history/worldwars/coldwar/kennedy_cuban_missile_01.shtml

CNN Cold War - The Wall 1958-1963: http://www.cnn.com/SPECIALS/cold.war/episodes/09/

CNN Cold War - Vietnam War: http://www.cnn.com/SPECIALS/cold.war/episodes/11/

Cold War Files - The Vietnam War: http://coldwarfiles.org/index.cfm?fuseaction=units.details&thisunit=3

Cuban Missile Crisis - The Bay of Pigs: http://library.thinkquest.org/11046/days/bay_of_pigs.html

Cuban Missile Crisis - An Overview of the Conflict: http://library.thinkquest.org/11046/days/index.html

JFK Presidential Library - Bay of Pigs: http://www.atomicarchive.com/Treaties/Treaty8.shtml

Library of Congress - Revelations fro the Russian Archives: Cuban Missile Crisis: http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/archives/colc.html

MSN Encarta - The Berlin Wall: http://encarta.msn.com/encyclopedia_761580628/Berlin_Wall.html

Six Day War (Middle East War): http://www.sixdaywar.co.uk/index.htm

1970's Atomic Archive - SALT I: http://www.atomicarchive.com/Treaties/Treaty8.shtml

Atomic Archive - SALT I I: http://www.atomicarchive.com/Treaties/Treaty13.shtml

BBC New - The Day the Viet Nam War Ended: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/4491193.stm

BBC News - Looking Back at Iran's Revolution: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/1814141.stm

Camp David Accords - The Framework for Peace in the Middle East: http://www.jimmycarterlibrary.org/documents/campdavid/accords.phtml

Cold War - Afghanistan: www.pwc.k12.nf.ca/coldwar/plain/afghanistan.html

Cold War International History Project - Soviet Invasion of Afghanistan: www.wilsoncenter.org/index.cfm?topic_id=1409&fuseaction=va2.browse&sort=
Collection&item=Soviet%20Invasion%20of%20Afghanistan

Cold War Museum - Afghan War (1978-1992): http://www.coldwar.org/articles/70s/afghan_war.asp

FAS (Federation of American Scientists) - SALT I: http://www.fas.org/nuke/control/salt1/

FAS (Federation of American Scientists) - SALT II: http://www.fas.org/nuke/control/salt2/

Iranian Revolution and the Soviet Invasion of Afghanistan: http://arabworld.nitle.org/texts.php?module_id=4&reading_id=120&sequence=22

US State Department - Ending the Vietnam War: www.state.gov/r/pa/ho/time/dr/17411.htm
 

1980's BBC News - 1989: Berliners Celebrate the Fall of the Wall: http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/november/9/newsid_2515000/2515869.stm

BBC News - Timeline: Moscow's Afghan War: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/4083015.stm

BBC - 1983 The US Invades Grenada: http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/october/25/newsid_3207000/3207509.stm

CNN - Star Wars 1980 -1989: http://www.cnn.com/SPECIALS/cold.war/episodes/22/

Cold War Files - The Fall of the Wall: http://coldwarfiles.org/index.cfm?fuseaction=units.details&thisunit=14

Guardian UK - "The Latin American Press on Regan": http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2004/jun/09/usa.sandrasmith

MSN Encarta - Strategic Defense Initiative: http://encarta.msn.com/encyclopedia_761568978/Strategic_Defense_Initiative.html

National Security Archive - Afghanistan: Lessons from the Last War: http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB57/soviet.html

Last Soviet Soldiers Leave Afghanistan: http://partners.nytimes.com/library/world/africa/021689afghan-laden.html?Partner=PBS&RefId=Eutttn-uFBqv

MSN Encarta - Iran-Iraq War: http://encarta.msn.com/encyclopedia_761580640/iran-iraq_war.html

National Security Archive: Shaking Hands with Saddam Hussein: The US Tilts Towards Iraq 1980-1984 [Iran-Iraq War]: http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB82/

PBS American Experience: The Invasion of Grenada: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/reagan/peopleevents/pande07.html

PBS American Experience: The Iranian Hostage Crisis, November 1979-January 1981: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/carter/peopleevents/e_hostage.html

PBS American Experience - Reagan: The Iran-Contra Affair: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/reagan/peopleevents/pande08.html

Ronald Reagan on the Strategic Defense Initiative: www.nuclearfiles.org/menu/key-issues/missile-defense/history/reagan_on-strategic-defense-iniative.htm

Time.com - The Reagan Doctrine: www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,964873,00.html

1990's

 

The American Burden of Hegemony in the Middle East: www.unc.edu/depts/diplomat/archives_roll/2001_10-12/jones_mideast/jones_mideast.html

BBC News - The Balkans 1990 - 2003: http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/static/map/yugoslavia/

BBC News - 1989, US Forces Oust General Noriega: http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/december/20/newsid_4054000/4054951.stm

BBC News - Timeline: War in the Gulf: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/861164.stmCNN

Black Hawk Down: A Story of Modern War [Somalia]: http://inquirer.philly.com/packages/somalia/

Bosnia Divided Before and After the War: http://www.cnn.com/WORLD/Bosnia/mission_peace/maps/map1/map1.html

CNN - The Unfinished War: http://www.cnn.com/SPECIALS/2001/gulf.war/

Global Security.org- Operation Just Cause [US Invasion of Panama]: http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/ops/just_cause.htm

The History Place - Genocide in the 20th Century - Bosnia Herzegovina - 1992-1995: http://www.historyplace.com/worldhistory/genocide/bosnia.htm

INCORE Guide to Internet Sources on the Conflict in the Balkans :[Bosnia, Kosovo, Serbia]: http://www.incore.ulst.ac.uk/services/cds/countries/Balkans-Regional.html

Institute for War and Peace Reporting - The Balkans [Bosnia, Kosovo, Serbia]: www.iwpr.net/?p=brn&s=p&o=-&apc_state=henpicr

MSN Encarta - Persian Gulf War: http://encarta.msn.com/encyclopedia_761551555/Persian_Gulf_War.html

Patterns of Global Terrorism: 1990 Middle East Overview: http://www.fas.org/irp/threat/terror_90/mideast.html

PBS Frontline - Ambush in Mogadishu [Somalia]: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/ambush/

PBS Frontline - The Gulf War: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/gulf/

The United States Army in Somalia: www.history.army.mil/brochures/Somalia/Somalia.htm

2000's

 

BBC News - N Korea Admits Nuclear Details: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/7399372.stm

Bush's Axis of Evil Comes Back to Haunt Him: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/10/09/AR2006100901130.html

CNN - Middle East Crisis: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/in_depth/middle_east/2001/israel_and_the_palestinians/default.stm

CNN - War in Iraq: http://www.cnn.com/SPECIALS/2003/iraq/index.html

Political Reform, the United States and the Arab-Israeli Conflict: http://www.ndu.edu/inss/symposia/topical2005/brownpaper.htm

US's Role in the Arab-Israeli Conflict: http://www.mees.com/postedarticles/finance/general/a45n17b01.htm

US Warms North Korea Against Nuclear Test: http://www.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/asiapcf/10/04/nkorea.nuclear.unresponse/index.html

Weapons Atomic Archive - The Hydrogen Bomb: www.atomicarchive.com/History/coldwar/page04.shtml

The Bulletin Online: http://www.thebulletin.org/minutes-to-midnight/timeline.html

CDI Nuclear Weapons Database - United States Arsenal: http://www.cdi.org/issues/nukef&f/database/usnukes.html

CNN Cold War Experience: Technology: http://www.cnn.com/SPECIALS/cold.war/experience/technology/

Cold War Museum - H Bomb Development Survey: http://www.coldwar.org/articles/40s/h_bomb.html

PBS - Race for the Super Bomb: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/bomb/index.html

Timeline - Chronology of the Nuclear Age (see Timeline & Nuclear Weapons: http://www.nuclearfiles.org/
 


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