Origins of the Cold War
- Secret Protocols of the Nazi-Soviet Pact concerning Poland, 1st September 1939
- The Atlantic Charter, 14th August 1941
- Declaration by the United Nations, 1st January 1942
- Cairo Conference Press Release (Concerning Japan's colonies post-war), November 1943
- Text of the agreements reached at the Tehran Conference, 1st December 1943
- The Bretton Woods Agreement, 22nd July 1944
- The Percentages Agreement (between Churchill and Stalin), October 1944
- Letter from Roosevelt to Stalin on compromise over post-war Polish government, 6th February 1945
- Text of the agreements reached at the Yalta Conference including Declaration of Liberated Europe, 11th February 1945
- Text of the agreements reached at the Potsdam Conference, 1st August 1945
- Churchill's 'Sinews of Peace' (Iron Curtain) Speech, 5th March 1946
- Stalin's Reply to Churchill (Pravda Interview), 14th March 1946
- George Kennan's Long Telegram, 22nd March 1946
- Ambassador Novikov's Telegram, 27th September 1946
- Truman's 'Recommendations for Assistance to Greece and Turkey' (Truman Doctrine) Speech, 12th March 1947
- Marshall Plan Speech, 5th June 1947
- Charter of the United Nations, 26th June 1945
- Statute of the International Court of Justice, 26th June 1945
- The Baruch Plan, 14th June 1946
- Report by Secretary Byrnes on the First Meeting of Council of Foreign Ministers (London Conference, Sep 1945), 5th October 1946
- Report by Secretary Byrnes on the Second Meeting of Council of Foreign Ministers (Paris Conference, Apr 1946), 20th May 1946
- Report by Department of State on Third Meeting of Council of Foreign Ministers (New York Conference, Nov 1946), Dec 1946
- Report by Secretary Marshall on Fourth Meeting of Council of Foreign Ministers (Moscow Conference, Mar 1947), 28th April 1947
- Report by Secretary Marshall on Fifth Meeting of Council of Foreign Ministers (London Conference, Nov 1947), 19th Dec 1947
- The 'Mr X Article' or 'The Sources of Soviet Conduct', July 1947
- President Truman's Inaugural Address, 20th January 1949
- The North Atlantic Treaty, 4th April 1949
- Statement by US Secretary of State Dean Acheson on the United States position on China, 5th August 1949
- Statement by President Truman on the Atomic Explosion in the USSR, 23rd September 1949
- The Common Program of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, 29th September 1949
The Cold War in the 1950s
- Secretary of State Dean Acheson's Speech on the Far East (Perimeter Speech) at the National Press Club, 12th January 1950
- National Security Agency Report NSC-68, 7th April 1950
- President Truman's Statement on Korea, 26th June 1950
- Statement by Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of the USSR, Andrei Gromyko, on US Intervention in Korea, 4th July 1950
- US-Philippines Mutual Defense Treaty, 30th August 1951
- Security Treaty between US, Australia and New Zealand (ANZUS), 1st September 1951
- Security Treaty between US and Japan, 8th September 1951
- President Eisenhower's Inaugural Address, 20th January 1953
- Text of the Korean War Armistice Agreement, 27th July 1953
- US-Korea Mutual Defense Treaty, 1st October 1953
- Five Principles of Peaceful Co-existence agreement between China and India, 29th April 1954
- Minutes of meeting between Mao Zedong and Nehru on Sino-Indian relations and the Cold War, 19th October 1954
- US-Taiwan Mutual Defense Treaty, 2nd December 1954
- South East Asia Collective Defense Treaty (Manila Pact), 8th September 1954
- The Warsaw Security Pact, 14th May 1955
- The Austrian State Treaty, 15th May 1955
- Khrushchev's Secret Speech 'On the Cult of Personality', 25th February 1956
- Eisenhower's Speech to Congress on the Middle East (Eisenhower Doctrine), 5th January 1957
- The Gaither Report (Deterrence and Survival in the Nuclear Age), 7th November 1957
The Cold War in the 1960s
- John F. Kennedy's Inaugural Address, 20th January 1961
- JFK's Berlin Speech (Ich bin ein Berliner), 28th June 1963
- Speech by First Secretary of the CPSU, Leonid Brezhnev, outlining the 'Brezhnev Doctrine', 13th November 1968