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Primary source documents. Declaration on Liberated Europe : the Yalta Conference (February 1945) ; Ho Chi Minh : telegrams to President Harry S. Truman (September 29, 1945, and February 28, 1946) ; Winston Churchill : "The Sinews of Peace" (Iron Curtain Speech) (March 5, 1946) ; George C. Marshall : remarks by the Secretary of State (Marshall Plan) (June 5, 1947) ; North Atlantic Treaty (1949) ; Harry S. Truman : first U.S. acknowledgement of Soviet atomic bomb detonation (September 23, 1949) ; Joseph McCarthy : speech on spread of communism (February 20, 1950) ; Harry S. Truman : declaration of a national emergency (December 16, 1950) ; Douglas MacArthur : post-recall speech to Congress (April 19, 1951) ; Korean Armistice Agreement (1953) ; Dwight D. Eisenhower : "The Row of Dominoes," presidential press conference (April 7, 1954) ; Warsaw Security Pact (1955) ; Mao Zedong : "U.S. Imperialism is a Paper Tiger" (July 14, 1956) ; Imre Nagy : final message to the Hungarian people (1956) ; Soviet announcement of Sputnik (October 5, 1957) ; John F. Kennedy : inaugural address (January 20, 1961) ; Vadim Orlov : account of the B-59 incident (1962) ; John F. Kenndy : commencement address announcing cooperation with Soviets (June 10, 1963) ; Nuclear Test Ban Treaty (1963) ; Tonkin Gulf Resolution (August 7, 1964) ; Chinese announcement of nuclear test (October 16, 1964) ; Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty (1968) ; Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty I (May26, 1972) ; U.S. War Powers Act (November 7, 1973) ; Yuri Andropov : Memorandum to Brezhnev on Afghanistan (December 1979) ; Civil Defense instructions for home fallout shelters (1980) ; U.S. Government : disappearances and human rights, three document excerpts (1980-1996) ; Ronald Reagan : the "Evil Empire" (March 8, 1983) ; Ronald Reagan : "Tear Down This Wall" speech (June 12, 1987) ; The Minsk Declarations (Dissolution of the Soviet Union) (December 8, 1991).