13 Cold War, Hot War in Korea

Primary Source Text: Truman Doctrine speech: https://www.americanrhetoric.com/speeches/harrystrumantrumandoctrine.html

Primary Source Text: Kwame Nkrumah accuses the U.S. of neocolonialism (this is a link to the whole book – I only assign one chapter, “The mechanisms of neo-colonialism): https://politicalanthro.files.wordpress.com/2010/08/nkrumah.pdf

Secondary Source Text: Bruce Cummings article on Korean War (from current standpoint) in London Review of Books: https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v39/n10/bruce-cumings/a-murderous-history-of-korea

Secondary Source Text: Review of Cummings history of the Korean War: https://www.globalresearch.ca/the-korean-war-the-unknown-war-the-coverup-of-us-war-crimes/23742

Short Documentary: Interview with Adam Hochschild on U.S. policy in Congo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R1fJckuXzpc

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