Global Crises (1930-1964)

• Interdependence
• Places and regions
• Culture
• Choice
• Decision-making

Observations of World Leaders and others present at the Potsdam Conference, on Stalin's reaction to Truman's news about the U.S. possessing a "new weapon of unusual destructive force" and what Stalin really understood this to mean:

President Truman's Diary and Papers written after the death of President Franklin Roosevelt in April, 1945- Excerpts, including arriving at the decision to use the bomb on Japan:

The Cuban Missile Crisis (1962) - Causes, events, decision-making process, timeline:

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