Notes on
The Cold War

Kennan to Secretary of State, February 22, 1946, in Foreign Relations of the United States 1946 , Vol. 6 (Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1969), 696–709, 708, 700.[]

Martin McCauley, Origins of the Cold War 1941–1949 , revised 3rd ed. (New York: Routledge, 2013), 141.[]

For Kennan, see especially John Lewis Gaddis, George F. Kennan: An American Life(New York: Penguin, 2011); John Lukacs, ed., George F. Kennan and the Origins of Containment, 1944–1946: The Kennan-Lukacs Correspondence(Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 1997).[]

Fraser J. Harbutt, Y alta 1945: Europe and America at the Crossroads of Peace (Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2010).[]

Herbert Feis, Between War and Peace: The Potsdam Conference (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1960).[]

For overviews of the Cold War, see especially John Lewis Gaddis, Strategies of Containment: A Critical Appraisal of Postwar American National Security Policy(New York: Oxford University Press, 1982); John Lewis Gaddis, The Cold War: A New History(New York: Penguin, 2005); Melvyn P. Leffler,For the Soul of Mankind: The United States, the Soviet Union, and the Cold War (New York: Hill and Wang, 2007); and Frederick Logevall, America’s Cold War: The Politics of Insecurity (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2009).[]

George F. Kennan (“X”), “The Sources of Soviet Conduct,” Foreign Affairs 25, no. 4 (July 1947): 566–582.[]

Joyce P. Kaufman, A Concise History of U.S. Foreign Policy(Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield, 2010), 86.[]

Denise M. Bostdorff, Proclaiming the Truman Doctrine: The Cold War Call to Arms (College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 1998).[]

Michael Beschloss, Our Documents: 100 Milestone Documents from the National Archives (New York: Oxford University Press, 2006), 199.[]

Charles L. Mee, The Marshall Plan: The Launching of the Pax Americana (New York: Simon and Schuster, 1984).[]

Melvyn P. Leffler and Odd Arne Westad, eds.,The Cambridge History of the Cold War: Volume 1, Origins(Cambridge, MA: Cambridge University Press, 2010), 189.[]

Daniel F. Harrington, Berlin on the Brink: The Blockade, the Airlift, and the Early Cold War (Lexington: University of Kentucky Press, 2012).[]

Walter Lippman, The Cold War: A Study in U.S. Foreign Policy (New York: Harper, 1947), 10, 15.[]

James Chace, Acheson: The Secretary of State Who Created the American World (New York: Simon and Schuster, 2008), 441.[]

Quotes from Curt Cardwell, NSC 68 and the Political Economy of the Early Cold War(Cambridge, MA: Cambridge University Press, 2011), 10–12.[]

Gaddis, Strategies of Containment.[]

Gregory Mitrovich, Undermining the Kremlin: America’s Strategy to Subvert the Soviet Bloc, 1947–1956(Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2000), 182.[]

For the Korean War, see especially Bruce Cumings, The Origins of the Korean War , 2 vols. (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1981, 1990); William W. Stueck, The Korean War: An International History(Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1995).[]

Elizabeth Stanley, Paths to Peace: Domestic Coalition Shifts, War Termination and the Korean War (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2009), 208.[]

J. Robert Oppenheimer, “Atomic Weapons and American Policy,” Foreign Affairs 31, no. 4 (July 1953): 529.[]

Andrew J. Dunar, America in the Fifties (Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 2006), 134.[]

Deborah Cadbury, Space Race: The Epic Battle Between America and the Soviet Union for Dominance of Space (New York: HarperCollins, 2006).[]

Tom Wolfe, The Right Stuff(New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux), 115.[]

Kenneth D. Rose, One Nation Underground: The Fallout Shelter in American Culture (New York: New York University Press, 2004), 128.[]

David M. Oshinsky, A Conspiracy So Immense: The World of Joe McCarthy(New York: Oxford University Press, 2005), 109.[]

Oshinsky,Conspiracy So Immense , 171–174.[]

Ibid., 102–103, 172, 335.[]

Ibid., 98–100, 123–125.[]

Sara Alpern, Freda Kirchwey: A Woman of the Nation(Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1987), 203.[]

Ellen Schrecker, Many Are the Crimes: McCarthyism in America (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1999).[]

On anticommunist liberals and the decline of American communism, see especially Schrecker, Many Are the Crimes.[]

Paul Robeson, Paul Robeson Speaks: Writings, Speeches, and Interviews, a Centennial Celebration, ed. Philip Foner (New York: Citadel Press, 1978), 421, 433.[]

Arthur Schlesinger Jr., The Vital Center: The Politics of Freedom (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1949), 1.[]

Arthur Miller, The Crucible (New York: Penguin, 2003), 30.[]

Robert D. Dean, Imperial Brotherhood: Gender and the Making of Cold War Foreign Policy(Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 2003).[]

William G. McLoughlin, Revivals, Awakenings, and Reform(Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2013), 189.[]

Quoted in Gastón Espinosa, Religion and the American Presidency: George Washington to George W. Bush with Commentary and Primary Sources (New York: Columbia University Press, 2009), 298.[]

Peter Gries,The Politics of American Foreign Policy: How Ideology Divides Liberals and Conservatives over Foreign Affairs (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2014), 215.[]

Oshinsky, Conspiracy So Immense , 272.[]

Ibid., 399.[]

Ibid., 475.[]

Henry R. Luce, “The American Century,” Life , February 17, 1941, 61–65.[]

Bruce J. Schulman, From Cotton Belt to Sunbelt: Federal Policy, Economic Development, and the Transformation of the South, 1938–1980(Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 1994), 135.[]

Dwight D. Eisenhower, Public Papers of the Presidents, Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1960–1961 (Washington, DC: Office of the Federal Register, 1961), 1035–1040.[]

Fredrick Logevall, Embers of War: The Fall of an Empire and the Making of America’s Vietnam (New York: Random House, 2012), 48.[]

Frank Ninkovich,The Diplomacy of Ideas: U.S. Foreign Policy and Cultural Relations, 1938–1950 (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1981).[]