Edition statement supplied by publisher. Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
War Crimes and Tribunals. Executive Order 9547 ; Nuremberg Code ; Establishment and Proceedings of the Tribunal ; Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide -- The New World Order. Preamble of the UN Charter ; Potsdam Agreement ; Statement by General MacArthur on the Occupation of Japan ; No Sacrificing of Basic Principles for Expediency ; Complete Integration of Military Operations ; The World Needs the Tonic of Universal Truth ; No Country Fears a Strong America ; "The Sources of Soviet Conduct" ; Truman Statement on Immigration into Palestine ; Truman Doctrine Speech ; Speech on the Marshall Plan ; Vyshinsky's Speech to the UN General Assembly ; NATO Treaty ; Memorandum on Lifting the Soviet Blockade -- American Alliances. Act of Chapultepec ; Inter-American Treaty of Reciprocal Assistance ; Pact of Bogota ; Address by Secretary Acheson, September 19, 1949 -- Atomic Policy. Atomic Energy and International Trade ; Atomic Explosion in the USSR ; International Control of Atomic Energy -- The Red Scare. Executive Order 9835 ; Testimony of J. Edgar Hoover before the House Un-American Activities Committee ; Ronald Reagan's Testimony before the House Un-American Activities Committee ; Testimony Regarding Communist Investigations -- Domestic Affairs. A Reason Must Be Substituted for Force ; Twenty-Second Amendment ; Taft-Hartley Act ; Practical Peacetime Applications ; Truman's State of the Union Speech -- The Rise of Civil Rights. Mendez et al. v. Westminister School District of Orange County et al. ; Morgan v. Virginia (1946) ; Report of the President's Committee on Civil Rights ; Shelley v. Kraemer (1948) ; Executive Order 9981 ; Southern Legislators Protest Proposed Anti-lynching Legislation -- Appendixes. Chronological List ; Web Resources ; Bibliography ; Index.
Summary:
"Defining Documents in American History: Post War 1940s contains 40 primary source documents that provide a compelling view of documents produced from 1945-1950, following the close of World War II. This unique era in American history is one characterized by increased economic prosperity and a great expansion of the role played by the United States in world affairs. The establishment of the United Nations in 1945 brought hope that a new and better world would emerge from the ashes of World War II. The end of the war was followed by a rapid demobilization of the armed forces, but it also brought shortages in housing, an inflationary trend in the economy, conflicts between labor and management, and the emergence of a new 'red scare' wherein innocent citizens and government officials alike were persecuted for their alleged ties to communist organizations."--Publisher website.
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