Trent Carson

Annotated Bibliography
Primary:
Olympic Boycott. U.S. Department of State, 7 August 2013,
http://foia.state.gov/Search/results
.aspx?searchText=*&caseNumber=F-2011-00809. Accessed 14
January 2015.
This website has many documents between the US Government and
the
USOC, as well as the IOC, over the actions of the US and the decision
to
boycott the Moscow Games. This source was used to specifically show
the correspondence between the parties in this boycott and to help
explain the significance.
"Jimmy Carter: Address to the Nation on the Soviet Invasion of
Afghanistan." The American Presidency Project. Accessed February 6, 2015.
http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/?pid=32911.
This website contained many primary sources of the documents
during the Carter Presidency, and was used to find many quotes about
events and to analyze Jimmy Carters exact words.
"Long Telegram." Cold War. Accessed February 6, 2015.
http://www.trumanlibrary.org/whistlestop/study_collections/coldwar/docume
nts/pdf/6-6.pdf.
This primary source is extremely important as it detailed containment
and the outline for how to stop the Soviet Union. It was the basis for lots of
the events that happened in the C.W.
"Miller Center." Miller Center. Accessed February 6, 2015.
http://millercenter.org/.
This website was very important as it contained many Jimmy Carter
interviews and television broadcasts that I embedded into my website. It
also had other documents that I added as well regarding the Cold War.
Secondary:

"Afghanistan - COMMUNISM, REBELLION, AND SOVIET INTERVENTION."

Country Studies US. Accessed February 6, 2015.
http://countrystudies.us/afghanistan/29.htm.
This website was extremely useful in finding specific details about the
Soviet War in Afghanistan. It contained tons of specific information and
helped me write the Soviet-Afghan War page.
Caraccioli, Tom, and Jerry Caraccioli. Boycott: Stolen Dreams of the 1980
Moscow Olympic
Games. Chicago, IL: New Chapter Press, 2008.
This book helped me understand the details and the effects of
the boycotts. It was one of the main key books used to research the main
topic of the 1980 Olympic Boycotts.
"Carter Tells U.S. Athletes of Olympic Boycott." History.com. Accessed
February 6, 2015. http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/carter-tells-usathletes-of-olympic-boycott.
This website gave insight into the specifics between Carter and the
athletes, along with the athletes reactions to the news. It was important in
the legacy of the games.
Caryl, Christian. Strange Rebels: 1979 and the Birth of the 21st Century.
New York, NY: Basic
Books, 2014.

This book gave details and in depth research into 1979 and the Rise of
Islam. It helped explain the Iranian Hostage Crisis, and specifically went to
the IHC page.
Feifer, Gregory. The Great Gamble: The Soviet War in Afghanistan. New
York, NY: Harper
Perennial, 2010.
This book was used to give insight into the Soviet War in Afghanistan.
It helped explain the Soviets motives and the context for the invasion, as
well as the consequences.
"Gold against the Soul: An Athlete's Story of the 1980 Moscow Boycott CNN.com." CNN. Accessed February 6, 2015.
http://edition.cnn.com/2012/08/07/sport/olympics-2012-moscow-boycott1980-don-paige/.
This website gave more information about the legacy of the games
and its effect on the athletes that didnt get to participate in this event. It
was important since it helped relate to the theme.
"Jimmy Carter and the Iranian Hostage Crisis." White House History
Classroom. Accessed February 6, 2015.
http://www.whitehousehistory.org/whha_classroom/classroom_9-12transitions-carter.html.
This website gave in depth details on the Iranian Hostage Crisis and
helped explain the context and the aftermath. It was useful when writing
the IHC page.

Judge, Edward H., and John W. Langdon. The Cold War: A Global History
with Documents, 2nd
ed. New York, NY: Pearson, 2010.
This book was useful since it gave a history of the Cold War, and also
gave important documents and pictures to go along that helped give more
detail to the story. It was full of extra information.
"Milestones - Office of the Historian." Milestones - Office of the Historian.
Accessed February 6, 2015. http://history.state.gov/milestones.
This entire website gave in depth information about the U.S.
involvement in every single event that happened during the Cold War. It was
one of the most useful websites and helped on nearly every single page.
"Playing Politics: Olympic Controversies Past and Present | Origins: Current
Events in Historical Perspective." Origins. Accessed February 6, 2015.
http://origins.osu.edu/article/playing-politics-olympic-controversies-pastand-present?nopaging=1.
This website was useful in getting the context for Olympic crises and
boycotts. It was important to explain how often boycotts occurred.
"Russian Invasion of Afghanistan." History of Russia. Accessed February 6,
2015. http://historyofrussia.org/russian-invasion-of-afghanistan/.
This website was important with writing about the Soviet-Afghan War.
It was useful to me as it gave the perspective and information from the
Russian side.
Sarantakes, Nicholas Evan. Dropping the Torch: Jimmy Carter, the Olympic
Boycott, and the

Cold War. Cambridge, U.K.: Cambridge University Press, 2010.

This book was vital to my project as it gave an in depth analysis of the
events leading up to the boycott, Jimmy Carter, and the boycott itself. This
was one of the most important sources and was a big part of many of my
pages.
"Sport Diplomacy in the Cold War: The Failure of the 1980 Olympic
Boycott." Nick Blackbourn. June 20, 2012. Accessed February 6, 2015.
http://nickblackbourn.com/sport-diplomacy-in-the-cold-war-the-failure-ofthe-1980-olympic-boycott/.
This website was very useful in gathering information about the
boycotts and how sports and politics mix. It also explained how the
movement failed and the legacy.
"The Cold War and the Olympic Movement." History Today. Accessed
February 6, 2015. http://www.historytoday.com/christopher-r-hill/cold-warand-olympic-movement.
This website was very important in getting an overview of the Cold
War and its relations to the boycott. It helped explain the timeline of the
entire conflict.
"The Iranian Hostage Crisis." American Experience: Jimmy Carter. Accessed
February 6, 2015.
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/generalarticle/carter-hostage-crisis/.

This website was extremely useful in researching the hostage crisis. It

helped me find all the details and results of the crisis while looking at it
through Jimmy Carters eyes.
Walker, Martin. The Cold War. New York, NY: Henry Holt and Company, LLC,
1995.
This writing gave a new insight to the war from someone who was a
correspondent to the USSR and gave an in depth history. This book gave a
very detailed account of the struggles in all environments: economic,
political, social, and more.
Westad, Odd Arne. The Global Cold War: Third World Interventions and the
Making of Our
Times. Cambridge, U.K.: Cambridge University Press, 2007.
This book gave a unique perspective on the Cold War, and in
conjunction with another Cold War source, I pieced together the information
to give an overview of the entire cold war.
"What Putin Could Have Learned from the 1980 Moscow Games."
Washington Post. Accessed February 6, 2015.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/europe/what-1980-moscow-saysabout-the-sochi-olympics/2014/02/04/af47fd18-85fb-11e3-801fe3ff2ca3fab6_story.html.
This website explained the correlation between the Olympic Games in
Sochi to the 1980 Moscow Olympic Games. This added to the legacy of the
1980 Games.

Winkler, Allan M. The Cold War: A History in Documents. New York, NY:
Oxford University
Press, 2000.
The Cold War: A History in Documents gives detailed accounts of the
main important
events of the Cold War. I found it interesting and useful because it
contains many
primary sources and interesting cultural ties to the war.