Hist 450, Section 1, Fall 2022, Announcements

8/25  Video of Madeleine Albright, click here. For video of Hillary Clinton, click here

9/1    For Smedley Butler's speech on U.S. intervention, click here

9/8    For a short video on the US occupation of Afghanistan, click here

9/13  For a map of Cold War in Eastern Europe, click here

9/29  US Joint Chiefs of Staff, “Justification for U.S. Military Intervention in Cuba,” March 13, 1962, recently declassified. For full text, click here

10/5  The famous "woke" CIA recruitment video, click here

10/25   On the Korean war, click here. For a video on antiwar music, click here. For a video on conservative backlash, click here

10/27   For a brief video on Jeffrey Sachs, click here. For another video of Sachs, click here

11/1     For the 1974 documentary Hearts and Minds, click here. For a scene from The Godfather, click here

11/15   For a map of Afghanistan, click here

11/29   Merle Haggard, "America First," click here. Link to video on propaganda pertaining to the First Gulf War, click here. For a link to a documentary on war propaganda by the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, click here

12/1     Merle Haggard, "America First," click here. For a redacted document, click here. For a video interview with Madeleine Albright, click here

12/6     For a map of the new republics arising out of the Soviet Union, after its 1991 break, click here. For a map of Ukraine, click here. Map of Cold War NATO-WTO, click here. For documents pertaining to the US agreement not to expand NATO, click here. For Time magazine cover with Boris Yeltsin, click here. For a link to documents on the 1992 Defense Planning Guidance, click here. For the BBC transcript of the leaked conversation by Victoria Nuland, click here.

12/7    Some students have expressed interest in obtaining information about US/UK efforts to block peace negotiations that might have ended Russia's invasion of Ukraine. Attached is an article that lays out the history, click here. The third paragraph includes links to sources in Foreign Affairs and Ukrainska Pravda, which provide the specifics.