Period 8: The Cold War begins by Amy Dundon

Mohammad Mosaddegh: Central Intelligence Agency, “Campaign to Install Pro-Western Government in Iran,”

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Memorandum prepared in the Directorate of Plans, July 11, 1953. This document describes a CIA plan to promote the fall of the Mosaddegh government and to replace it with a pro-Western government under the Shah’s leadership.

Salvador Allende: Henry Kissinger, “NSC Meeting—Chile,”

adundon1 — 2024-04-07 21:12:26 UTC

Memorandum to President Richard Nixon, November 5, 1970. In this confidential memorandum, Kissinger outlines the choices the United States has regarding socialist Salvador Allende’s election in Chile. Suggested excerpt: pages 2, 5 and 6.

Marshall Plan: George Marshall, “The Marshall Plan Speech” (commencement address, Harvard University, June 5, 1947).

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Marshall Plan: George Marshall, “The Marshall Plan Speech” (commencement address, Harvard University, June 5, 1947). In this speech Secretary of State George Marshall invited Europe’s leaders to work together to propose a plan for their own recovery