Understanding Cold War Dynamics: A Study Guide for HIST 304
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1 International Relations History 2: COLD WAR HIST 304 (Fall 2024) Time: Lectures T & Th 11:35 - 12:55; voluntary conferences at individual times Location: Rutherford Physics Building 112 Instructor: Lorenz Lüthi (lorenz.luthi@mcgill.ca) Office: Leacock 612 E-mail: lorenz.luthi@mcgill.ca Office Hours: M 11:00 - 12:30, or by appointment TA TBA TA Office & Hours TBA Course Description ‘History of International Relations,’ part 2“Cold War”, draws on the new historiography and on newly accessible archival materials. You will be exposed to the different viewpoints and experiences of multiple Cold War participants. This is an intellectually challenging course. If you are a U0 or U1 student and you have not had any other HIST 300-level class, this course may be too difficult for you. Please consult with the instructor in person (not e-mail). Course Goals At the end of the course, you will have a good understanding of the large-scale developments in international relations during the Cold War. Prerequisites HIST 203, HIST 215, HIST 216, HIST 218, HIST 221 or HIST 226 are recommended. If you have any questions, please consult with the instructor in person (not e-mail). Changes to syllabus Unexpected events beyond the control of the university may require sudden syllabus changes during the semester. Lectures The lectures provide you with the basic narrative of the Cold War. You are strongly urged to attend ALLlive lectures. Lectures are NOTsummaries of assigned readings. Reading Strategies Think about reading strategies. Here are some: (1) Don’t get overwhelmed, but think about breaking down the weekly reading task into manageable steps. (2) Set aside at least 90 minutes (or 2 x 45 minutes) every week for the assigned readings. When you do the assigned readings, sign off from e-mail, Youtube, Twitter, Facebook, etc., get a cup of coffee/tea or a can of cool soda, turn on your favorite music (on low volume), and focus on reading! (4) Don’t take too many notes, read continuously, try to understand the main points of the text (don’t get lost in the details), and take notes sparingly (less is better than too much). Once you are done with one piece, write down your reflections on each piece in a couple of sentences.Study Advice Students who read and prepare exams together usually fare better in this course. You are strongly urged to form informal study groups in the first weeks of the semester. In the past, students of this course have created a Facebook website for discussion as well; the instructor is happy to facilitate its creation, but he will not run it. Copyright Please note that all of the materials of this course fall under Canadian and international copyright protection. You are allowed to use any course material, including your notes, for your own educational (and research) purposes. You are not permitted to upload any materials—including this syllabus, video and audio recordings, your personal lecture notes, anything posted on myCourses (WebCT), exam sheets, your exams, your papers,
2 etc.—on any website outside of McGill University (i.e. in the public domain). Also, you are explicitly prohibited from selling any of these materials to anybody or any company. Please refer to McGill’s Guidelines for Instructors and Students on Remote Teaching and Learning for further information. Grading Components Mid-term (30%), final exam (40%), paper (30%). (check also => Conferences) Mid-term The mid-term exam is an in-class exam on November 10, 1024. For more detailed information, please consult the relevant instructions after the class schedule. Final exam The final exam is a three-hour invigilated exam. University regulations apply. For the date, please check on final exam calendar as published during the semester. For more detailed information, please consult the relevant instructions after the class schedule. Make-up exams If you miss the mid-term exam due to illness, you must provide a written explanation for your reasons. If you cannot write the mid-term exam due to a religious holiday recognized by the university, you must contact the instructor IN ADVANCE to arrange for a make-up date. Make-up exams may be scheduled before the actual exam date. For a missed final exam, university regulations apply. Conferences Attendance is voluntary. However, if you want to attend, you must sign up for a conference slot at the beginning of the semester. Conference times and locations will be announced in the first two weeks of the fall semester. Please sign up on Minerva. Conference grades: You can improve your final course grade by up to 3 percent (f.e., a 72 would turn into a 73, 74, or 75) through your activeparticipationin voluntaryconferences. Your demonstrated ability to contribute to the discussion on the basis of the assigned readings will be graded on a scale from 0 (zero) to 3 (three) after each weekly conference. Attendance of the conference without any participation will be graded as a 0 (zero); non-attendance will also be graded as a 0 (zero). The average of your participation grade will be added to the mathematical average of the three course components (mid-term exam, final exam, and paper), resulting in your final course grade. Paper Deadline: November 14, 2024; paper due on myCourses by 11:59 p.m. Paper Instructions PLEASE READ THE SPECIAL SECTION AFTER THE CLASS SCHEDULE FOR DETAILED INSTRUCTIONS ! Grading Principles for the Paper The following paragraphs outline principles, not iron rules. An “A” paper: 1. is well organized and contains a well written analysis, 2. contains the best evidence you can find; remove poor and/or superfluous evidence from your paper. 3. is written in your own voice (keep in-text references to newspaper articles, documents, or other historians to a minimum); you need to show that you digested all information and that your paper reflects your own thinking. A “B” paper: 1. is largely descriptive (i.e. lacks analysis), 2. and/or lacks one element of an “A” paper.A “C” paper: 1. is purely descriptive, 2. and/or lacks two or three elements of an “A” paper.A “D” paper: 1. is purely descriptive and partially incoherent. An “F” paper: is completely incoherent.
3 The instructor is committed to fair and consistent grading. The above-mentioned grading principles are guidelines only, they are not iron rules! Other circumstances (like the level of difficulty of the topic chosen, the amount of research done, the quality of writing, etc.) might increase or decrease the grade. Proper Quotation and Originality: If you hand in a paper that lacks proper citation and/or originality, you will receive an “F”for it. What is proper citation and originality? Proper quotation: All quotes from documents, from the secondary literature, or from any other source (printed, digital, oral, acoustic, visual, or other) muststand between quotation marks (“”) and mustbe correctly cited in a footnote. The sum of all quotes must be kept at a reasonable size in relation to your paper; no paper should have quotes collectively amounting to more than one sixth (16.67%) of its overall length. Originality: What does not appear in the text of your paper between quotation marks mustbe written by yourself in your own words. Rewriting (rephrasing) other papers of any kind does not amount to an original paper! Please note: Originality also requires that any of your papers—as a whole or parts thereof, or in complete or partial translation—which you submit in this class cannot have been, or cannot be, submitted to any other class anywhere in the world. Do not buy papers, do not use AI-generated, or do not pay others to write your papers!Statement of Integrity “McGill University values academic integrity. Therefore, all students must understand the meaning and consequences of cheating, plagiarism and other academic offences under the Code of Student Conduct and Disciplinary Procedures (see www.mcgill.ca/students/srr/honest/ for more information). (Approved by Senate on 29 January 2003)”Plagiarism or cheating can lead to your dismissal from McGill! Additional assignments The instructor will not allow any student to write additional assignments to improve or replace low grades. Re-grading Teaching assistants/graders will under no circumstance comment or re-grade exams or papers. Only the main instructor will do so. If you want your paper or exam re-graded, you must submit an e-mail request to the instructor, explaining why you think your paper or exam should be regarded. The instructor reserves the right to re-grade the WHOLE exam or the WHOLE paper (and not only parts thereof), which may lead to an increase of your grade but may also cause a decrease. Power Point slides; myCourses The syllabus and all PowerPoint materials used in each lecture will be available on WebCT/myCourses. PowerPoint material will not be posted before lectures. The instructor will not send individual or complete sets of PowerPoint slides to students by e-mail or in by any other means. If you do not know how to use WebCT/myCourses, it is your own responsibility to familiarize yourself with it. NOTE: PowerPoint material shown in lectures is purely illustrative and does under no circumstance form the basis for exam preparations. Both exams will be based on the contents of the lectures and the readings. Submission of written assignments to be graded in English or French “In accord with McGill University’s Charter of Students’ Rights, students in this course have the right to submit in English or in French any written work that is to be graded. (Approved by Senate on 21 January 2009)”E-mail Communication The instructor tries to reply to your e-mails in a prompt manner during business hours in the week and on the first weekday after the weekend or holiday. However, you can do your share to expedite e-mail communication!1. Always use your McGill e-mail account (and not some private account that does not identify you clearly, as f.e.: “12345@yahoo.com”).2. In the subject line, fill in course number (“Hist 304”) and the issue you want to address (f.e.: “question about readings of week 6”). 3. Sign the e-mail with your full name (first and last name) and McGill ID#. The use of your McGill account
4 and a clear subject line will help the instructor to distinguish your legitimate e-mail communications from countless spam e-mails that arrive from nonsensical e-mail addresses and with empty subject lines. Books (mandatory) Don Munton and David A. Welch. The Cuban Missile Crisis. 2007. Lorenz M. Lüthi. Cold Wars: Asia, the Middle East, Europe. 2020. (also available on-line via McGill library) Note: You can buy both books at Paragraphe bookstore; they have been pre-ordered (https://paragraphbooks.com/collections/textbooks). However, you do not have to buy them. The Lüthi book is electronically available via the library catalogue. The Munton/Welch book is also available electronically via the library catalogue, but only for one person at any time. Reader Additional mandatory readings are in the “Reader” => MyCourses. Further books of interest (voluntary reading for those interested in general interpretations) John L. Gaddis. Strategies of Containment. 2005 (second edition). Do NOT use 1982 version! Vladislav M. Zubok. A Failed Empire. 2007. Class schedule Note: Try to read all readings in the assigned week, and read them in the sequence listed in the class schedule. Further materials listed are references if you want to read more on the side. Week 1 (August 29) 1. Introduction Mandatory Readings: Lüthi chapter 1 Further Materials (voluntary): Ralph P. Levering, et al. Debating the Origins of the Cold War. 2002. Week 2 (September 3 & 5) 2. Division of the World 3. Early Cold War, 1949-1956 No conferences Mandatory Readings: Lüthi chapter 2-4 (start reading) & Reader (03 Westad chapters 1-2) Further Materials (voluntary): Tsuyoshi Hasegawa. Racing the Enemy. 2005. Campbell Craig et at. The Atomic Bomb and the Origins of the Cold War. 2008. Melvyn P. Leffler. A Preponderance of Power. 1992. Vojtech Mastny. Cold War and Soviet Insecurity. 1996. William Stueck. Rethinking the Korean War. 2013. Simon Hall. 1956. 2016. Charles Gati. Failed Illusions. 2006. Week 3 (September 10 & 12) 4. From Crisis to Crisis, 1956-1968 5. China No conferences Mandatory Readings: Lüthi chapters 2-4 (finish reading) & Lüthi chapters 5 & Reader (05 Chen) Further Materials (voluntary):
5 Mark Kulansky. 1968. 2004. Vladimir Tismaneanu, ed. 1968. Günter Bischof et al. The Prague Spring and the Warsaw Pact invasion. 2010. Kevin McDermott et al., ed. Eastern Europe in 1968. 2018. Chen Jian. Mao’s China and the Cold War. 2001. Lorenz M. Lüthi. The Sino-Soviet Split. 2008. Week 4 (September 17 & 19) 6. Vietnam 7. South Asia Voluntary conferences start Mandatory Readings: Lüthi chapters 6-7 Further Materials (voluntary): Pierre Asselin. Vietnam’s American War. 2017. Hang Nguyen. Hanoi’s War. 2012. Max Hastings. Vietnam. 2018. Srinath Raghavan. War and Peace in Modern India. 2012. David Engermann. The Price of Aid. 2018. Paul M McGarr. The Cold War in South Asia. 2013. Manu Belur Bhagavan, ed. India and the Cold War. 2019. Week 5 (September 24 & 26) 8. Middle East, 1945-1964 9. Middle East, 1964-1974 Voluntary conferences continue Mandatory Readings: Lüthi chapters 8-10 Further Materials (voluntary): Yezid Sayigh, and Avi Shlaim, eds. The Cold War and the Middle East. 1997. Nigel J. Ashton, ed. The Cold War in the Middle East. 2007. Philip Zelikow, et at. Suez deconstructed. 2018. Shlomo Ben-Ami. Scars of War, Wounds of Peace. 2006. Nigel J. Ashton, ed. The Cold War in the Middle East. 2007. Paul Thomas Chamberlin. The Global Offensive. 2012 Craig Daigle. The Limits of Détente. 2012. Week 6 (October 1 & 3) 10. Asian-African Movement and Non-Alignment 11. Islam and the Cold War Voluntary conferences continue Mandatory Readings: Lüthi 11-13 Week 7 (October 8 & 10) 12. Nuclear weapons and Space Race 13. MID-TERM (in-class) (October 10, 2024) (covers lectures 1-11 including relevant readings) Voluntary conferences continue Mandatory Readings: Reader (12 Holloway) & Lüthi chapter 14 Further Materials (voluntary): Lawrence S. Kaplan. The United States and NATO: the formative years. 1984. David Holloway. Stalin and the Bomb. 1994. Shane J. Maddock. Nuclear apartheid. 2020.
6 Lawrence Freedman. The evolution of nuclear strategy. 4thedition. 2019. Toshihiro Higuchi.Political Fallout. 2020 !!! Study break October 14-18 !!! Week 8 (October 22 & 24) 14. Cuban Missile Crisis 15. Détente Voluntary conferences continue Mandatory Readings: Welch/Munton (all) & Reader (15 Safranskaya and 15 Schulzinger) Further Materials (voluntary): Serhii Plokhy. Nuclear Folly. 2021 Philip Nash. The Other Missiles of October. 1997. Jussi M. Hanhimäki. The Rise and Fall of Détente. 2013. Geir Lundestad. “Empire by Invitation?” Journal of Peace Research23, no. 3 (1986): 263–77. Geir Lundestad. Empire by Integration. 1998 William I. Hitchcock. France Restored.1998. Week 9 (October 29 & 31) 16. Economic Integration in West and East Europe 17. Berlin Voluntary conferences continue Mandatory Readings: Lüthi chapters 15-17 Further Materials (voluntary): Benjamin Grob-Fitzgibbon. Continental Drift.2016. Daniel F. Harrington. Berlin on the Brink. 2012. Hope M. Harrison. Driving the Soviets Up the Wall. 2003. William Glenn Gray. Germany’s Cold War. 2003 Mary Sarotte. Dealing with the Devil. 2001. Week 10 (November 5 & 7) 18. CSCE & Vatican 19. Africa Voluntary conferences continue Mandatory Readings: Lüthi chapters 18-19 & Reader (19. Natufe) Further Materials (voluntary): Michael Cotey Morgan. The Final Act. 2018. Frank Gerits. The Ideological Struggle for Africa. 2023 Week 11 (November 12 & 14) 20. Latin America 21. The End of the Cold War in the Middle East Voluntary conferences continue Mandatory Readings: Reader (20. Westad chapter 13) & Lüthi chapters 20 Further Materials (voluntary): Greg Grandin, and Gilbert M. Joseph. A Century of Revolution. 2010Tanya Harmer. Allende's Chile and the Inter-American Cold War. 2011. Piero Gleijeses. Conflicting Missions: Havana, Washington, and Africa, 1959-1976. 2003.David W. Lesch. 1979. 2001. Elisabeth Leake. Afghan Crucible. 2022
7 Paper Deadline: November 14, 2024, at 11:59 p.m., via MyCourses Week 12 (November 19 & 21) 22. The End of the Cold War in East Asia 23. The End of the Cold War in Europe? Voluntary conferences continue Mandatory Readings: Lüthi chapters 21-22 Further Materials (voluntary): Nayan Chanda. Brother Enemy. 1986. O. Arne Westad, and Sophie Quinn-Judge, eds. The Third Indochina War. 2006. Nicholas Khoo. China’s Foreign Policy since 1978. 2020 Week 13 (November 26 & 28) 24. The end of the systematic Cold War 25. Post-Cold War Voluntary conferences continue Mandatory Readings: Lüthi chapters 23-24 Further Materials (voluntary): Fritz Bartel. Triumph of Broken Promises. 2021. Simon Miles. Engaging the Evil Empire. 2020. Saki Dockrill. The End of the Cold War Era. 2005 Jack F. Matlock. Reagan and Gorbachev. 2004. Gale Stokes. The Walls Came Tumbling Down. 1996. Week 14 (December 3) 26. Wrap-Up Mandatory Readings: Lüthi Introduction & Conclusion Further Materials (voluntary): Mary Sarotte. Not an Inch. 2022 Final exam: Invigilated. Date to be announced by university during semester.
8 Mid-term READ THIS SECTION VERY CAREFULLY! The mid-term exam is a closed-book exam without access to your notes. It is scheduled in a lecture slot in the lecture room (for date, see above). Material covered Lectures #1 to #11, including all relevant readings, will be covered in the exam. You may read additional materials for yourself during the semester, but they will neither covered nor graded in the exam. Structure The mid-term consists of two blocks with a choice of question in each of them. The two blocks may be weighed differently (60% for one block, 40% for the other, f.e.).Purpose The purpose of the mid-term exam is to test whether you have understood large scale developments. As you read the assigned readings and review your lecture notes, do not get lost in details. Think about large-scale developments. Each question asked in the mid-term will cover materials from multiple units (lectures and readings). In your answer, you need to draw information from multiple units. Advice for preparations - Come to all lectures and take notes. - Read all assigned texts in time. - Ask yourself large questions (as a training exercise) and answer them (at least with keywords). - Keep the big picture in mind. - Do not get lost in details. - Think about argument. The questions in the exam are designed for you to come up with an argument. The questions are not there to examine how many details you can keep in your mind. Advice on how to answer questions during the exam - Do NOT immediately start to write. - Step back and reflect on the question & draw a mind map on one page in the exam booklet. - Take cues from the question to guide your answer. - Think about argument: define categories/reasons/causes, etc., which you will use to structure your answer. - Use evidence only to support your argument, i.e., don’t add unnecessary details.- Leave three lines open at the beginning of each answer; this is where you write your thesis statement after you have written your exam answer (don’t write it first, since you might change your mind in the writing process).- You do not need a conclusion wrapping up your exam answer (the exam is too short). NOTE: Your answers must be argument-driven! Why did something happen? How did it happen? Etc. Keep narrative (= chronological list of events) to a minimum.
9 Final Exam READ THIS SECTION VERY CAREFULLY! The final exam is a closed-book exam without access to your notes. It is invigilated and centrally administered; for dates and location, please consult the final exam schedule published during the semester. Material covered All lectures and all relevant readings will be covered in the exam. You may read additional materials for yourself during the semester, but they will neither covered nor graded in the exam. Structure The mid-term consists of three blocks with a choice of question in each of them. The three blocks may be weighed differently (for example, 40% for one block, 35% for another, and 25% for the third).Purpose The purpose of the final exam is to test whether you have understood large scale developments. As you read the assigned readings and review your notes, do not get lost in details. Think about large-scale developments. Each question asked in the mid-term will cover materials from multiple units (lectures and readings). In your answer, you need to draw information from multiple units. Advice for preparations - Come to all lectures and take notes. - Read all assigned texts in time. - Ask yourself large questions (as a training exercise) and answer them (at least with keywords). - Keep the big picture in mind. - Do not get lost in details. - Think about argument. The questions in the exam are designed for you to come up with an argument. The questions are not there to examine how many details you can keep in your mind. Advice on how to answer questions during the exam - Do NOT immediately start to write. - Step back and reflect on the question & draw a mind map on one page in the exam booklet. - Take cues from the question to guide your answer. - Think about argument: define categories/reasons/causes, etc., which you will use to structure your answer. - Use evidence only to support your argument, i.e., don’t add unnecessary details.- Leave three lines open at the beginning of each answer; this is where you write your thesis statement after you have written your exam answer (don’t write it first, since you might change your mind in the writing process).- You do not need a conclusion wrapping up your exam answer (the exam is too short). NOTE: Your answers must be argument-driven! Why did something happen? How did it happen? Etc. Keep narrative (= chronological list of events) to a minimum.
10 Paper: Guidelines, Topics, Citation READ THIS SECTION VERY CAREFULLY! Purpose The purpose of the paper is for you to engage with two kinds of historical evidence: newspaper articlesand documents. Your paper is a comparison of how newspapers at the time reported on an event and what the now publicly available documents from that time reveal about this event. Keep in mind: newspaper articles are outside observations from the time; documents reflect inside decision-making at the time. They have fundamentally different perspectives! Scope and structure of paper topic: You must choose a topic from the list below; there will be NOexceptions! Your paper must contain the following parts: Part 1: Two (2!) pages as Introduction to your paper (no extra Introduction needed). This part is an exercise in concise writing. You quickly introduce the event you cover, describe why it matters, and provide the reader with a very brief overview of what you will argue (roadmap to parts 2. and 3.). This is the ONLY part in which you may use secondary sources, i.e., academic books or academic articles (Wikipedia, etc. are NOT academic sources). Part 2: Four (4!) pages on how newspapers covered the event immediatelybefore, during, and immediatelyafterwards. “Immediately”here means a range from a couple of days to a couple of months. The paper is too short for you to include long-term causes and long-term consequences. Use newspaper reports from the time (not later or recent newspapers). Do not just pick a small number of newspaper articles, but read the newspapers from the time widely (how somebody at the time would have read it) and distill the main points. Define a small number of themes to structure Part 2; avoid too much chronological narrative. In this part you can NOT use secondary sources. Part 3: Four (4!) pages what the original documents (translated into English and available on-line) tell us about the event. Use documents that were produced immediatelybefore, during, and immediately afterwards. “Immediately”here means a range from a couple of days to a couple of months. The paper is too short for you to include long-term causes and long-term consequence. Define a small number of themes to structure Part 3; avoid too much chronological narrative. Try to match the themes in Part 3 with those in Part 2. In this part you can NOT use secondary sources. Part 4: Two (2!) on how Part 2 and Part 3 compare and contrast. If there are great differences, ask yourself why this is so. Also ask yourself why newspaper articles and documents may have not covered certain aspects of your topic (political bias, lack of understanding, lack of language skills, etc.?). No need to use any additional sources. Part 4 serves as your Conclusion (no extra Conclusion needed). NOTE: Please do NOT add an additional Introduction (Part 1 is your introduction), and do NOT add an additional Conclusion (Part 4 is your conclusion). Include only the 4 parts outlined above! Argument Your paper must be analytical. Do not provide just a summary of a small number of newspaper articles and documents. Part 2 (newspaper articles): Ask yourself how a person living in North America/Western Europe at the time would have understood the event on the basis of the newspapers she/he read on a daily basis. Use the database ProquestHistorical Newspapers (at McGill Library) for your research. Don’t worry that you will only use English-language newspapers (there is no need to track down newspapers in other languages). You are writing a 12-page paper, not a dissertation! However, you need to read a wide range of newspaper articles from the time and distill the main points. There is NO magical number of newspaper articles you need to include here; you judge when you
11 have enough evidence. Do not just summarize individual articles! Explore what the 3 to 4 main themes discussed in the total amount of newspaper articles you have found tell you as a reader. Organize Part 2 according to these themes. Part 3 (documents): Explore what the main themes discussed in the documents you found are, and how the politicians who were involved at the time understood the event. Use the databases listed below. There is NO magical number of documents you need to include here; you judge when you have enough evidence. Do not just summarize individual documents; explore what the 3 to 4 main themes discussed in the documents you have found tell you as a reader. Organize Part 3 according to these themes. Try to make the themes in Part 2 and Part 3 match. NOTE: You may find that the main themes in part 2 and 3 are different (which is fine); they also might be similar (which is fine, too). If the themes in the evidence you found for part 2 and part 3 allow, the structure (i.e., the choice of themes and their sequence in your presentation) of parts 2 and 3 should be similar to each other (i.e., cover similar themes in a similar sequence). WritingYou areexpected to submit a well-written and clear paper. Spend at least one third of your time on the writing process. Make sure that your paper follows universally established grammatical conventions. Proofread your paper before you submit. Once you have finished your complete draft, read your paper aloud to yourself, and ask yourself after each sentence: Does it make sense? Do the words flow naturally? If not, rewrite! Sentences that are longer than three lines usually need rewriting. Keep in mind the overall length of your paper. Poorly written papers will be marked down. CONSULT the writing center in MyCourses! Formal requirements Tightly argued and well-written papers are better than long lists of loosely connected facts. A paper ALWAYSincludes the following: your name, the course number, the submission date, a title, the four parts outlined under the section Scope and structure of paper topic(observe page limits), footnotes (not endnotes), and page numbers. Title pages are optional. There is NO need to add a bibliography.All papers must be in double-spacing, with reasonable margins (1 inch/2.5 cm), in 12-point script (Times New Roman), and 12 pages (2,500 to 3,000 words) in length. Use word count! Don’t forget to include footnotes! Overly long papers will not be accepted. Footnotes (Referencing/citation) Use footnotes (small, elevated numbers in the body of the text & footnote reference at the bottom of the page), not parentheses (with a reference in it). Do not use endnotes. Do not add URLs for printed materials, which you have found on-line; these materials are referenced/cited like printed materials. For more instructions on how to cite correctly, see further below. Sources to be used For part 2 (newspaper articles), use the following database at the McGill Library: ProquestHistorical Newspapers- Use only (!) the following newspapers: New York TimesWashington PostBoston GlobeChristian ScienceMonitorManchester Guardian/GuardianIrish TimesGlobe and MailSouth China Morning PostFor part 3 (documents), use the following websites to find documents: - for volumes of the Foreign Relations of the United States (FRUS), use: https://search.library.wisc.edu/digital/AG5OAT7XT7HRHX84 (until 1960) http://history.state.gov/historicaldocuments (1945+)
12 - for other American and non-American (untranslated) documents, use: Digital National Security Archive (at McGill or by VPN) National Security Archive (https://nsarchive.gwu.edu/virtual-reading-room) - for non-American (translated) sources, use: Cold War International History Project (CWIHP) Digital Archive (https://digitalarchive.wilsoncenter.org/ ) Bulletins (http://www.wilsoncenter.org/publication-series/cwihp-bulletin) Working Papers (http://www.wilsoncenter.org/publication-series/cwihp-working-paper-series) - if you find other electronic sources, please use them only after consultation with your instructor. If you have trouble using these electronic sources, consult a librarian. List of topics (with databases suggested): If you want to use additional databases, please discuss with instructor first!) Mao in the Soviet Union, December 1949 to February 1950 (=> CWIHP) The Coup in Iran, 1953 (=> FRUS, DNSA) Geneva Conference, April to July 1954 (chose eitherKorea orIndochina) (=> FRUS, CWIHP) China and the Bandung Conference, April 1955 (=>CWIHP) Geneva Summit, July 1955 (=> FRUS) Vienna Summit, early June 1961 (=> FRUS) Soviet and East German Decision-Making regarding the Berlin Wall, spring to August 1961 (=> CWIHP) The Moscow Negotiations of the Limited Nuclear Test Ban Treaty, July and August 1963 (=> FRUS) Nixon in China, February 1972 (=> FRUS, CWIHP DNSA) Nixon in the Soviet Union, May 1972 (=> FRUS, DNSA) The Soviet intervention in Afghanistan, 1979 (=> CWIHP) Citation rules for footnotes: Each newspaper article/document you use must be footnoted. Do NOT use hyperlinks (URLs) as citations. Here are the citation rules for your footnotes: Newspapers “Title of article,” name of newspaper[f.e.: New York Times], date of publication [f.e.: October 21, 1956], page number(s). Foreign Relations of the United States (FRUS) “Title of document,” date of document, FRUS, range of years [f.e.: 1961-1963], volume number [f.e.: XII], page number(s) [if there are no page numbers, use document number]. Digital National Security Archive (DNSA) “Title of document,” date of document, DNSA, number of document [f.e.: KT 00282], page number(s) (if available). Cold War International History Project (CWIHP) From Digital Archive “Title of document,” date of document,CWIHP, name of collection [f.e. Germany and the Cold War], page number(s) (if available). From Bulletin “Title of document,” date of document,CWIHP Bulletin, number of bulletin [f.e. 7], page number(s). From Working Papers “Title of document,” date of document,author(s) of working paper, “title of working paper,”CWIHP Working Paper, number of working paper [f.e. 7], page number(s).
13 National Security Archive (NSA) Number of Document: “Title of document,” date of document,NSA, name of collection [f.e. Party Leaders], page number of (s) (if available). Other archives Use citation style equivalent to those listed above. NOTE: If you are in doubt, check the endnote section of Cold Warsand mimic the style there.