Causes of Conflict CBA for Mr. Diehl: Topics 12-22

 A Blow to the Nation by Paul Dickson - NOVA

Primary Sources

Memorandum from C.P. Cabell to B.A. Schriever, "Research and Development on Proposed Rand Satellite Reconnaissance Vehicle" (March 17, 1951)

Memorandum from Ken Mansfield, "Intercontinental Ballistic Rocket Program" (March 27, 1954).

Report from RAND Corporation, "Recommendation to the Air Staff: An Earlier Reconnaissance Satellite System" (November 12, 1957).

Memorandum for J.R. Killian, Jr. from President's Science Advisory Committee, Ballistic Missiles Panel, "Whither Ballistic Missile Systems?" (March 4, 1958).

Letter from J.R. Killian, Jr. to Dwight D. Eisenhower (March 8, 1958).

Memorandum by A.J. Goodpaster, "Memorandum of Conference with the President March 10, 1958 - 10:20 AM" (March 11, 1958).

Memorandum from Lawrence McQuade to Paul Nitze, "But Where Did the Missile Gap Go?" (May 31, 1963).

The Suez Crisis published by the Dwight D. Eisenhower Memorial Commission

1956: Hungarians Rise Up Against Soviet Rule  via BBC

The Suez Crisis written by Laurie Milner of the BBC

BBC Documentary

1959: The Cuban Revolution via The New York Times

Primary Sources 

Memorandum of Conversation, "Memorandum of Conference with the President" (October 29, 1957).

Memorandum of Conversation, [U.S. Department of State and Department of Defense Officials Discuss Nuclear Policy and the Concept of Massive Retaliation] (April 7, 1958).

Letter from Stefan Possony to Walt Rostow, [Resumption of Nuclear Testing] (May 8, 1961).

Memorandum from U.S. Strategic Air Command to Joint Chiefs of Staff, "USSR Nuclear Testing" (May 16, 1961).

National Intelligence Estimate 11-7-63, Director of Central Intelligence, "The Clandestine Introduction of Weapons of Mass Destruction into the U.S." (March 13, 1963).

National Security Decision Memorandum 16, "Criteria for Strategic Suffiency" (June 24, 1969).

Sources from the Gale Virtural Reference Library

Primary Sources

Nikita Khrushchev's to President Kenney

Documents related to the Cuban Missile Crisis made available on the National Security Agency website

The Cuban Missle Crisis via The National Security Archive

Memorandum from Joint Chiefs of Staff to Robert McNamara, "Cuba" (April 10, 1962).

Appendix from Joint Chiefs of Staff, "Justification for U.S. Military Intervention in Cuba" and Annex, "Pretexts to Justify U.S. Military Intervention in Cuba" (Circa Spring 1962).

Memorandum of Project Mongoose Meeting (October 4, 1962).

Memorandum from Adlai Stevenson to John Kennedy, [Opinion against U.S. Airstrike on Cuba] (October 17, 1962).

Memorandum by Theodore Sorenson, [Objections to U.S. Airstrike on Cuba] (October 20, 1962).

Notes by Robert McNamara on Meeting with John Kennedy (October 21, 1962).

The 1956 Hungarian Revolution: A History in Documents  - A National Security Archive Electronic Briefing Book

The Hungarian Revolution, 1956   - An eyewtines account

Sources from the Gale Virtual Library

Vietnam Online via PBS

The Nation: The My Lai Massacre via Time Magazine

Primary Sources compiled by Digital History

The My Lai Courts - Martial 1970

Primary Sources

Cable from Llewellyn Thompson to John Foster Dulles (March 9, 1959).

Memorandum by Andrew Goodpaster, "Memorandum of Conference with the President, March 20, 1959, 7 PM" (March 23, 1959).

Report from U.S. Department of State. Policy and Planning Staff, "An Analysis of the Political and Military Implications of Alternative Uses of Force to Maintain Access to Berlin" (April 22, 1959).

Memorandum of Conversation from U.S. Department of State, "Berlin Contingency Planning" (November 21, 1961).

Memorandum of Conversation from U.S. Department of State, "Private Conversations between the President and Chancellor Adenauer" (November 21, 1961) [Pages 2-3 Missing].

History from U.S. Department of State. Office of German Affairs, "Negotiating History of Berlin Crisis Since November, 1958 (August 6, 1962).

Memorandum from William Tyler to Dean Rusk, "Handling the Impasse on Berlin" (August 7, 1962).

Topic Overview and Background Information

Military Resources: Bay of Pigs Invasion & Cuban Missile Crisis via the National Archives

Bay of Pigs: 40 years after The National Security Archive site provides a thorough history of the Bay of Pigs invasion with links to full-text documents and audio recordings.

The CIA's Internal Probe of the Bay of Pigs Affair
Created by Michael Warner, this CIA website focuses on the CIA inquiry into the government's handling of the Cuban Bay of Pigs operation.

CBA, Causes of Conflict: U-2 Spy Plane Incident