A Short History of the Department of State
- 1953–1960: Entrenchment of a Bi-Polar Foreign
Policy
- Dien Bien Phu & the Fall of French Indochina, 1954
- The East German Uprising, 1953
- Southeast Asia Treaty Organization (SEATO), 1954
- The Taiwan Straits Crises: 1954–55 and
1958
- U.S.-China Ambassadorial Talks, 1955–1970
- The Warsaw Treaty Organization, 1955
- The Baghdad Pact (1955) and the Central Treaty
Organization (CENTO)
- Bandung Conference (Asian-African Conference), 1955
- Khrushchev and the Twentieth Congress of the Communist Party, 1956
- The Suez Crisis, 1956
- Sputnik, 1957
- The Eisenhower Doctrine, 1957
- The Berlin Crisis, 1958–1961
- U-2 Overflights and the Capture of Francis Gary Powers, 1960