The 1950s (1950-1959) / editor, Michael Shally-Jensen, PhD.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Shally-Jensen, Michael, editor.

Series:

Defining documents in American history (Salem Press)

Defining Documents in American History

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Cold War (1945-1989).

United States--History--1945-1953--Sources.

United States.

United States--History--1953-1961--Sources.

United States--Politics and government--1945-1953--Sources.

United States--Politics and government--1953-1961--Sources.

United States--Social conditions--1945---Sources.

United States--Economic conditions--1945---Sources.

Cold War--Sources.

Cold War.

Nineteen fifties.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xiii, 257 pages).

Edition:

[First edition].

Place of Publication:

Ipswich, Massachusetts : Salem Press, a division of EBSCO Information Services ; Amenia, New York : Grey House Publishing, [2016]

Summary:

This important resource offers in-depth analysis of a broad range of historical documents and historic events that shaped such pivotal themes such as the Cold War, anti-Communism, civil rights, science, and society in the 1950s.

Contents:

Cover; DEFINING DOCUMENTS IN AMERICAN HISTORY: The 1950s (1950-1959); Table of Contents; Publisher's Note; Editor's Introduction; Contributors; The Cold War; NSC 68: "United States Objectives and Programs for National Security"; Report to the American People on Korea and US Policy in the Far East; "Old Soldiers Never Die"; United States-Japan Security Treaty; Statement by President Truman upon Signing the Mutual Security Act; Adlai Stevenson's Acceptance Speech at the 1952 Democratic National Convention; President Eisenhower-"The Chance for Peace"

Mutual Defense Treaty between the United States and the Republic of KoreaA "New Look" at National Defense Policy; CIA Summary of the Overthrow of Premier Mossadeq of Iran; Geneva Accords on Indochina; President Eisenhower to the President of the Council of Ministers of Vietnam; Sino-American Mutual Defense Treaty; The Eisenhower Doctrine; Treaty of Rome; "Communism in the Americas"; Fidel Castro's Speech at Twenty-One Nations Conference; Nixon and Khrushchev: The Kitchen Debate; Antarctic Treaty; Anti-Communism

Senator Joseph McCarthy's Speech to the Republican Women's Club of Wheeling, West Virginia"Declaration of Conscience"; Censure of Senator Joseph McCarthy; Civil Rights; Hernandez v. Texas; Brown v. Board of Education; Women's Political Council Documents; Address to the Montgomery Improvement Association; Civil Rights Act of 1957; Executive Order 10730-Desegregation of Central High School, Little Rock, Arkansas; Cooper v. Aaron; Science, Society, and More; William Faulkner's Nobel Prize Acceptance Speech; "Statement on the Nature of Race and Race Differences"

Excerpt from Sexual Behavior in the Human Female"Atoms for Peace"; J. Robert Oppenheimer on Science and Society; Eisenhower Message to Congress Regarding a National Highway Program; On the Polio Vaccine Situation; National Review Mission Statement; "Disneyland One Year Old"; Launching of the Sputnik Satellite; Eisenhower on Science in National Security; Patent Application for "Miniaturized Electronic Circuits"; Appendixes; Chronological List; Web Resources; Bibliography; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed October 6, 2016).

ISBN:

9781619258877

1619258870

OCLC:

952572400