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U.S. in an Age of Global Crisis:  Responsibility and Cooperation

 

        Peace with Problems (1945-1960)

 

 

Formation of the United Nations

 

“About the UN / History” pages at official United Nations website, with brief history and background of creation of this world body:

http://www.un.org/aboutun/history.htm

 

 

UN Charter (1945), on official UN website—“Introductory Notes” explaining signing in June, 1945, the UN’s start-up in October, 1945, and later amendments (click on “Preamble” and other sections to read text of the Charter):

http://www.un.org/aboutun/charter/index.html

 

 

Universal Declaration of Human Rights

 

Text of the Declaration, on UN website:

http://www.un.org/Overview/rights.html

 

The Eleanor Roosevelt and Human Rights Project webpages, at George Washington University, (click on “Timeline:  1946-1952”):

http://www.gwu.edu/~erpapers/abouteleanor/timeline/tl5.cfm

 

 

Incarceration of Japanese in U.S.

 

Korematsu v. U.S., 323 U.S. 214 (1944) -- U.S. Supreme Court decision upholding the detention, on grounds of national security during war-time, of thousands of West-Coast Japanese Americans during WWII:

 

CompuLEGAL Analysis of Korematsu case on Project LEGAL webpages:

http://www.maxwell.syr.edu/plegal/scales/korematsu.html

 

 

Text of official Korematsu Court Opinion, on Cornell University’s LII website (scroll down list of names to “K”—Korematsu and click on “Syllabus” (short summary) or “Decision”): 

http://supct.law.cornell.edu/supct/cases/name.htm#Case_Name-I-K

 

 

U.S. Post-War Relief and Refugee Efforts

 

International Refugee Organization – Brief description of temporary UN Agency (1946-1952), with links, in Columbia Encyclopedia, 6th Ed.  (2001):

http://www.bartleby.com/65/in/IntlRefu.html

 

 

Expansion of Communism in Europe, Asia

 

“Cold War” and “Airplane Incidents” pages at Avalon Project at Yale Law School website, including treaties, reports and documents relating to increasing tensions between the U.S. and U.S.S.R., 1945-1960:

http://www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/coldwar/a1950.htm

 

 

The Truman Doctrine

 

Several folders of linked documents (1947 to 1952) which expressed this doctrine, at the Truman Library website:

http://www.trumanlibrary.org/whistlestop/study_collections/doctrine/large/doctrine.htm

 

 

 

The Marshall Plan

 

Study Collection at the Truman Library website, including folders of linked documents and links to external site information:

http://www.trumanlibrary.org/whistlestop/study_collections/marshall/large/marshall.htm

 

 

The Berlin Airlift

 

Collection of documents, photos, and explanatory material, at the Truman Library website:

http://www.trumanlibrary.org/whistlestop/study_collections/berlin_airlift/large/berlin_airlift.htm

 

 

NATO

 

The NATO Collection, at the Truman Library website, includes materials on the treaty and early development of NATO:

http://www.trumanlibrary.org/whistlestop/study_collections/nato/large/nato.htm

 

 

 

Korean War

 

Photos, documents, maps, timelines and links to external information, at the Truman Library website:

http://www.trumanlibrary.org/whistlestop/study_collections/korea/large/index.htm

 

 

 

J. Robert Oppenheimer

 

“Race for the Super Bomb” PBS’ American Experience program companion website provides information and links about Oppenheimer’s role in developing the 1st atomic bomb, Chairmanship of the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission, and his investigation by the HUAC and loss of his government security clearance:

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/bomb/peopleevents/pandeAMEX65.html

 

J. Robert Oppenheimer and events relating to development of the Atomic Bomb, on website of Nuclear Age Peace Foundation, with external links:

http://www.nuclearfiles.org/bios/k_o/oppenheimerjulius.html

 

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