MR. Musselman’s Global 10

                 

                Cold War Newspaper Story –Possible Websites

 

1.  CHURCHILL SAYS AN “IRON CURTAIN” HAS DESCENDED

    http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/churchill-iron.html

 

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

 

2.   THE UNITED NATIONS ANNOUNCED IN SAN FRANCISCO

      http://www.un.org/Pubs/chronicle/2005/issue3/0305p24.html

    

 

3.    U.S.  ANNOUNCES “TRUMAN DOCTRINE”.

       Modern History sourcebook:  The Truman Doctrine, 1947.

        http://www.state.gov/r/pa/ho/time/cwr/82210.htm

 

        http://avalon.law.yale.edu/20th_century/trudoc.asp

 

4.  U.S.  ANNOUNCES “MARSHALL PLAN.”

     Modern History sourcebook:  The Marshall Plan

     http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/1947marshallplan1.html

 

 

5. SOVIET BERLIN BLOCKADE

    from answers.com

    http://www.answers.com/topic/berlin-blockade

 

     http://www.mtholyoke.edu/acad/intrel/penna.htm

 

 

6.  WARSAW PACT IS FORMED FOR DEFENSE

     http://www.warsaw-life.com/poland/warsaw-pact

 

     http://www.saskschools.ca/curr_content/history20/unit4/sec2_03.html

 

 

7.  SOVIETS LAUNCH SPACECRAFT “SPUTNIK”

 

     http://history.nasa.gov/sputnik

 

8.  U.S. DEFEATS SOVIETS IN THE “MIRACLE ON ICE”

 

    http://proicehockey.about.com/cs/history/a/miracle_on_ice.htm

 

 

9.  NATO FORMED AS DEFENSIVE AGREEMENT

     http://www.saskschools.ca/curr_content/history20/unit4/sec2_02.html

 

 

10.  SOVIETS SHOOT DOWN U.S. SPY PLANE “U2”

 

      http://americanhistory.about.com/od/coldwar/a/gary_powers.htm

 

 

11.  CUBA INVADED AT THE ‘BAY OF PIGS”.

 

  http://www.historyofcuba.com/history/baypigs/pigs.htm 

 

  **      http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/bayofpigs/chron.html

 

12.  NIXON ANNOUNCES ERA OF DÉTENTE

 

        http://history.sandiego.edu/gen/20th/RN/page001.html

 

13.  WARSAW PACT TROOPS INVADE HUNGARY

 

       http://www.unc.edu/~wmckinne/hungarymid20th.html

 

http://www.umich.edu/~historyj/pages_folder/articles/Soviet_Intervention_in_the_Hungarian_Revolution_of_1956.pdf

 

 

14.    WARSAW PACT TROOPS INVADE CZECHOSLOVAKIA

    

           http://www.lib.umich.edu/soviet-invasion-czechoslovakia/pg1.html

 

 

15.  PRESIDENT JOHNSON ANNOUNCES  “GULF OF TONKIN RESOLUTION.” 

 

       http://avalon.law.yale.edu/20th_century/tonkin-g.asp

 

 

16.  COMMUNISTS LAUNCH “TET OFFENSIVE”.

 

      http://www.u-s-history.com/pages/h1862.html

 

17.  SAIGON FALLS TO COMMUNISTS

   

      http://www.historylink.org/index.cfm/index.cfm?DisplayPage=output.cfm&file_id=3335Communists

 

 

18.  MARTIN LUTHER KING SPEAKS OUT AGAINST VIETNAM WAR

 

      http://www.hartford-hwp.com/archives/45a/058.html