List of Illustrations ix Series Editors'' Preface x Acknowledgments xii Source Acknowledgments xiii Introduction 1 Chapter 1: War, Imperialism, Anti-Imperialism 7 1 Secretary of State, John Hay, Open Door Notes, 1899-1900 7 2 President William McKinley, Account of his Decision to Occupy the Philippines, 1898 11 3 The Platt Amendment, 1901 13 4 Jane Addams, Critique of American Militarism, 1902 15 5 President Theodore Roosevelt, ''''Corollary'''' to the Monroe Doctrine, 1904 19 Chapter 2: The Great War and Its Aftermath 24 1 George M. Cohan, ''''Over There,'''' 1917 24 2 President Woodrow Wilson, Fourteen Points Address, 1918 26 3 Senator Robert LaFollette, Opposition to President Wilson''s War Message, 1917 32 4 W. E. B. Dubois, Comments on the First World War, the Treaty of Versailles, and the Politics of Race, 1918 36 5 Charles Lindbergh, Account of the First Solo Nonstop Airplane Flight Across the Atlantic Ocean, 1927 40 6 The Kellogg-Briand Pact, 1928 45 Chapter 3: The Great Depression, Fascist Fears, and Social Change in America 51 1 President Franklin D. Roosevelt, First Inaugural Address, 1933 51 2 Hamilton Fish Armstrong, Meeting with Adolf Hitler, 1933 56 3 Father Charles Coughlin, Radio attack on ''''Internationalism,'''' 1931 62 4 Charles Lindbergh, Speech to an America First Committee Meeting, 1941 66 5 The Atlantic Charter, 1941 69 Chapter 4: The Second World War 72 1 Lawrence T. Kagawa, the Internment of Japanese-Americans, 1942 72 2 President Franklin Roosevelt and Soviet Marshal Josef Stalin at the Tehran Conference, 1943 74 3 Dwight Eisenhower, the Liberation of Nazi Concentration Camps, 1945 78 4 President Harry Truman, Diary Entries on the Potsdam Conference and his Decision to Drop the Atomic Bombs on Japan, 1945 80 5 The Atomic Mushroom Cloud Over Nagasaki, 1945 83 Chapter 5: The Early Cold War 85 1 George F. Kennan, ''''Long Telegram'''' on the Soviet Union, 1946 85 2 The Truman Doctrine, 1947 90 3 Assistant Secretary of State, Dean Rusk, the ''''Loss'''' of China, 1950 93 4 Senator Joseph McCarthy, Speech in Wheeling, West Virginia, 1950 96 5 NSC 68, 1950 98 6 President Dwight Eisenhower, the ''''Falling Domino'''' Theory in Indochina, 1954 103 Chapter 6: Rebellions Against the Cold War 106 1 Martin Luther King, Jr.

, ''''The Rising Tide of Racial Consciousness,'''' 1960 106 2 ''''Spy vs. Spy,'''' 1961 111 3 SANE, Public Petition, 1961 112 4 Students for a Democratic Society, Port Huron Statement, 1962 114 5 Women Strike for Peace, ''''What Every Woman Knows,'''' 1962 122 6 ''''Dr. Strangelove,'''' 1964 125 7 President Lyndon Johnson, ''''Peace Without Conquest,'''' 1965 130 8 Phil Ochs, ''''I ain''t marchin'' anymore,'''' 1965 136 9 Christian Appy, Oral Histories from the Vietnam War 137 10 My Lai Massacre, 1968 145 Chapter 7: De´tente, Human Rights, and the Continuation of the Cold War 147 1 President Richard Nixon, ''''Opening'''' to China, 1972 147 2 Agreement on Basic Principles between the United States and the Soviet Union, 1972 156 3 American Complicity in Chilean Repression, 1973 159 4 The Helsinki Final Act, 1975 163 5 President Jimmy Carter, Address at the University of Notre Dame, 1977 169 6 President Ronald Reagan, ''''Evil Empire'''' Speech, 1983 174 Chapter 8: The End of the Cold War 179 1 President Ronald Reagan, Speech and Questionand-Answer Session at Moscow State University, 1988 179 2 The New York Times, Mikhail Gorbachev''s Heroic Reception in the United States, 1988 189 3 The New York Times, The Fall of the Berlin Wall, 1989 191 4 President George H. W. Bush and Soviet Chairman Mikhail Gorbachev, the End of the Cold War, 1989 196 Chapter 9: After the Cold War 201 1 President George H. W. Bush, the Iraqi Invasion of Kuwait, 1990 201 2 Deputy Secretary of Defense, John Deutch, Genocide in Rwanda, 1994 204 3 President Bill Clinton, the Kosovo Crisis, 1999 206 Chapter 10: The War on Terror 212 1 The Terrorist Attacks of September 11, 2001 212 2 The New York Times, the Public Horror of September 11, 2001 222 3 President George W. Bush, the Bush Doctrine, 2002 225 4 George Packer, the Iraq War, 2005 228 5 Torture at Abu Ghraib Prison, 2004 233 Select Bibliography 235 Index 239.