Collections
Collections contain selected sets of historical documents related to a specific topic, region, or event.
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SPACE RACE
Documents on the 20th-century competition for supremacy in spaceflight capacity between the United States and the Soviet Union.
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STALIN AND THE COLD WAR
Leader of the Soviet Union from 1922 until his death in 1953, this collection contain Stalin's own writings, conversations, and legacy.
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SYNGMAN RHEE ERA
A glimpse into the papers Sygnman Rhee, President of the Republic of Korea from 1948 through 1960.
389 Documents -
TAIWAN STRAIT CRISES
The Taiwan Strait Crises of 1954-1955 and 1958 were short, but climactic military confrontations.
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TAIWAN’S COLD WAR IN SOUTHEAST ASIA
Documents on Taiwan's efforts to engage non-communist states in Southeast Asia in the 1970s and 1980s.
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THE "SECOND" KOREAN WAR, 1967-1969
A series of military clashes taking place along the DMZ after 1967 threatened to engulf the Korean Peninsula in a new war.
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THE 1995 NPT REVIEW AND EXTENSION CONFERENCE
25 years after the Non-Prolfieration Treaty (NPT) came into force, parties to the treaty met to decide if the NPT would be continued indefinitely.
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THE ALGERIAN REVOLUTION AND THE COMMUNIST BLOC
The onset of the Algerian War of Independence in November 1954 was an important development in the international history of the Cold War.
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THE OVERSEAS CHINESE AND THE COLD WAR
The Overseas Chinese were often at the forefront of the People’s Republic of China’s Cold War.
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THE SECOND ASIAN-AFRICAN CONFERENCE
In 1964-1965, countries in Asia and Africa sought to convene the Second Asian-African Conference, a follow up to the 1955 Bandung Meeting.
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THE SIX-DAY WAR (1967)
This collection gives insight into the thought processes of global decision-makers as the events of the 1967 War, or Six-Day War, unfolded.
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THE SOVIET UNION IN THE HORN OF AFRICA
A selection of documents used in the writing of "The Soviet Union and the Horn of Africa during the Cold War: Between Ideology and Pragmatism"
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THE TWO KOREAS AND THE THIRD WORLD
During the Cold War, the two Koreas competed for recognition and legitimacy across the Third World.
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THE TWO KOREAS AND THE VIETNAM WAR
With the involvement of both South and North Korea, the Vietnam War became a microcosm of the inter-Korean struggle.
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THE YI-TA INCIDENT, 1962
During the “Yi-Ta Incident” of spring 1962, 60,000 Kazakhs and Uyghurs fled from Xinjiang in China's northwest into the Soviet Union.
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TODOR ZHIVKOV COLLECTION
Leader of Bulgaria from 1954 until the fall of the Soviet Union, this collection contains documents by and about Todor Zhivkov.
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UKRAINIAN NUCLEAR HISTORY
Documents on Ukraine's nuclear history.
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UNITED STATES NON-RECOGNITION POLICY
In 1940, the United States condemned the Soviet occupation of Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania
16 Documents