History of the Modern World, 10th Edition (Palmer)

Chapter 25: Coexistence, Confrontation and the New Global Economy

Primary Sources, Maps and Images

CXXI. Confrontation and Detente, 1955-1975

• [Image President Eisenhower]
• [Image John Foster Dulles]
• [Primary Source Khrushchev and Eisenhower, Summit Statements, 1960]
• [Primary Source Eisenhower Doctrine]
• [Image Sputnik, 1958]
• [Image Explorer I]
• [Image Soviet SS-25 ICBM]
• [Image American Titan II nuclear missile]

1. The Kennedy Years, 1961-1963
• [Secondary Source The Beginning of the Peace Corps]
• [Primary Source Alberto Lleras, Report on the Alliance for Progress, 1963]
• [Map Bay of Pigs invasion]
• [Secondary Discussion/Primary Source Civil defense program]
• [Image Advertising bomb shelters]
• [Image Supplies for a well-stocked bomb shelter]
• [Image Bomb shelter]
• [Image Berlin Wall]
• [Primary Source Berlin Wall Exchange of Notes on the Berlin Wall, 1961]

2. The Cuban Missile Crisis of 1962
• [Primary Source Cuban Missile Crisis Debate, 1962]
• [Primary Source President John Kennedy, Address on the Cuban Crisis, 1962]
• [Map Cuba during missile crisis]

3. The United States and the Vietnam War
• [Image Ho Chi Minh]
• [Image Ngo Dinh Diem]
• [Image Viet Cong]
• [Primary Source President Eisenhower, Aid to the State of Viet-Nam, 1954]
• [Primary Source Gulf of Tonkin Incident, 1964]
• [Image US troops in VN]
• [Image Massive bombing1965-69]
• [Image Anti-war protest, Washington DC, early 1970s]
• [Primary Sources Paris Peace talks]
• [Image Henry Kissinger]
• [Image Signing the cease-fire agreement, January 1973]
• [Image Khmer Rouge guerillas]
• [Image Choeung Ek, Cambodia killing field]
• [Primary Source Fran's Ponchaud, Cambodia: Year Zero, 1978]

4. Brezhnev: The "Prague Spring"
• [Image Leonid I. Brezhnev]
• [Image Alexander Dubcek]
• [Images Soviet army in Prague, 1968]
• [Primary Source Brezhnev Doctrine, 1968]

4. Brezhnev and Nixon
• [Image Nixon visited Mao in Beijing]
• [Primary Source SALT I treaty, 1972]
• [Primary Source Helsinki accords, 1975]
• [Image Helsinki conference]

CXXII. Collapse and Recovery and the Global Economy: The 1970s and 1980s

• [Image Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries, 1960]

1. The Recession: Stagnation and Inflation
• [Image Margaret Thatcher]
• [Primary Source Ronald Reagan, Evil Empire Speech, 1982]

2. Economic and Political Change in Western Europe
• [Image Unemployed in 1970s UK]
• [Image Falkland war, 1982]
• [Primary Source New Labour manifesto, 1997]
• [Image Tony Blair]
• [Image Francois Mitterrand, 1981]
• [Image Prime Minister Jacques Chirac]
• [Image Helmut Schmidt]
• [Image Bettino Craxi]
• [Image Felipe Gonzalez]

3. The American Economy
• [Image Bill Clinton]

4. The Financial World
• [Primary Source General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade, 1947]

5. The Enlarged European Community: Problems and Opportunities

6. Toward a "Single Europe": the European Union
• [Image Commodore personal computer, 1984]
• [Primary Source Maastricht Treaty of European Union]

CXXIII. The Cold War Rekindled

• [Image Jimmy Carter]
• [Primary Source SALT II treaty, 1979]
• [Image Soviet advisors in Afghanistan, 1988]

1. The Reagan Years: From Revived Cold War to New Detente
• [Image American invasion of Grenada, 1983]
• [Image American planes bombed military installations in Libya]
• [Image Terrorist attack on American and French installations in Lebanon, 1983]

2. Nuclear Arms Control
• [Primary Source Partial test-ban treaty, 1963]
• [Primary Source/Secondary Discussion Partial test-ban treaty]
• [Image Chernobyl]
• [Image Cruise missile]
• [Primary Source Treaty establishing the "hot line," 1963]

CXXIV. China after Mao

• [Image Deng Xiaoping]

1. Deng's Reforms

2. The "Democracy Movement"
• [Image Hu Yaobang]
• [Images Hu's death in April 1989 set off student demonstrations in Tiananmen Square]
• [Image Understanding Tianamen]
• [Image Jiang Zemin]
• [Images Chinese clothing factory]
• [Images Wuhan]
• [Images Hu Jintao]

3. Population Growth