The 1950s (1950-1959)

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 Korea ; A "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 in 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".