Chapter 11. Détente & the End of the Cold War: Globalization during Transition

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Soviet Union:

 

Perestroika and Gorbachev history from Western New England College

http://mars.acnet.wnec.edu/~grempel/courses/wc2/lectures/gorrev.html

 

Perestroika summary and documents from Library of Congress

http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/archives/pere.html

 

Perestroika defined by Mikhail Gorbachev on HistoryGuide.org

http://www.historyguide.org/europe/perestroika.html

 

Cuban Missile Crisis, informative site containing multimedia historical documents, from the National Security Archives of George Washington University

http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/nsa/cuba_mis_cri/

 

 

China:

 

Sino-Soviet Split – an outstanding web site with a lot of information and a lot of links, from Answers.com

http://www.answers.com/topic/sino-soviet-split

 

“The Right Decision on China” by Henry Kissinger, essay written in 1994 with Cyrus Vance (on World Tibet Network News)

http://www.tibet.ca/en/wtnarchive/1994/6/8-3_6.html

 

“China: Containment Won’t Work” by Henry Kissinger, an editorial written for the Washington Post in June 2005

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/06/12/AR2005061201533.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns

 

China and Ping-Pong Diplomacy under the Nixon administration from PBS

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/china/peopleevents/pande07.html

 

Timeline of U.S.-Chinese Relations from PBS

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/china/timeline/synopsisnf.html

 

Explanation of Nixon’s secret communications with China, Ping-Pong diplomacy, and the events leading up to Nixon’s trip to China.  A very informative site from U.S.-History.com

http://www.u-s-history.com/pages/h1877.html

 

 

Cold War:

 

Cold War International History Project from the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars

http://www.wilsoncenter.org/index.cfm?topic_id=1409&fuseaction=topics.home