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Chapter 11. Détente & the End of the Cold War: Globalization during Transition
Explore
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containing multimedia historical documents, from the National Security Archives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
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