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PETER BASTIAN (AUSTRALIAN CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY)

 

Document List

Protocol of Proceedings of Crimea Conference (Yalta) February, 1945
Agreement of Allies on Postwar Conditions

White House Meeting of President Harry S Truman with Soviet Foreign Secretary V. Molotov, April, 1945
Memoirs revealing rising tensions between the US and the USSR over Poland

Harry S Truman to Secretary of States James Byrnes, 5 January 1946
Letter revealing rising tensions between the US and the USSR over Iran

Telegram from George Kennan to the US Secretary of State 22 February, 1946
Telegram analyzing Soviet outlook

Winston Churchill’s Iron Curtain Speech, Fulton Missouri, 5 March, 1946
Speech calling for a stand against Soviet influence

Reply of Joseph Stalin to Churchill’s Iron Curtain Speech, March, 1946
Speech defending communism as having the support of ordinary people

Speech of Soviet Foreign Secretary V. Molotov in Paris May, 1946
Speech depicting British actions as imperialism

President Harry S. Truman's address before a Joint Session of Congress, 12 March, 1947
Speech invoking a contest between two ways of life

An American Historian interprets the Truman Doctrine
Excerpt from secondary source

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