cold war

The following resources will help you in your exploration of the events of the Cold War and their impact on US-Soviet relations.

"Voices from the Not-So-Distant Past" Conducting Oral Histories of the Cold War

General	Note: To search the plight of a third world country during the cold war, use a combined keyword search in the search engine of your choice. For example: Afghanistan, Cold War BBC Wars and Conflict - The Cold War: http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/worldwars/coldwar/ Cold War International History Project: www.wilsoncenter.org/index.cfm?topic_id=1409&fuseaction=va2.browse&sort=Collection Cold War International History Project: US-Soviet Relations: www.wilsoncenter.org/index.cfm?topic_id=1409&fuseaction=va2.browse&sort= Collection&item=US%2DSoviet%20Relations The Cold War Museum: http://www.coldwar.org/ Library of Congress - Revelations fro the Russian Archive: Cold War - Soviet Perspectives: http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/archives/cols.html National Archives (UK) Learning Curve - Cold War: http://www.learningcurve.gov.uk/coldwar/default.htm PHS Social Studies Department - Cold War Websites: www.pomperaug.com/departments/social_studies/worldhistory2/coldwar.htm WWW-LV History - The Cold War History: http://gpweb.us/VLColdWarIndex.htm Teacher Oz's Cold War Pages: http://www.teacheroz.com/coldwar.htm Spartacus Educational http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/ColdWar.htm The Cold War Maps http://users.erols.com/mwhite28/coldwar1.htm Eleanor Roosevelt National Historic Site http://www.nps.gov/archive/elro/glossary/cold-war.htm John F. Kennedy Presidential Library http://www.jfklibrary.org/JFK/JFK-in-History/The-Cold-War.aspx
Weaponry	U.S. Dept. of Energy- The Manhattan Project: An Interactive History on Nuclear Proliferation http://www.cfo.doe.gov/me70/manhattan/proliferation.htm Atomic Archive - The Hydrogen Bomb: www.atomicarchive.com/History/coldwar/page04.shtml The Bulletin Online: http://www.thebulletin.org/minutes-to-midnight/timeline.html CDI Nuclear Weapons Database - United States Arsenal: http://www.cdi.org/issues/nukef&f/database/usnukes.html Nuclear Weapon Archive: http://nuclearweaponarchive.org/ Use with caution - Author information, credentials not available. Be sure information found on this site can be corroborated elsewhere. PBS - Race for the Super Bomb: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/bomb/index.html Timeline - Chronology of the Nuclear Age (see Timeline & Nuclear Weapons: http://www.nuclearfiles.org/
1940's	Center for Defense Information - Nuclear Weapons Database - The United States Arsenal: www.cdi.org/issues/nukef&f/database/usnukes.html Cold War - Did Truman Cause the Cold War? (Truman Doctrine and Marshall Plan) http://www.learningcurve.gov.uk/coldwar/G3/cs3/ Cold War International History Project - Soviet Nuclear Development: www.wilsoncenter.org/index.cfm?topic_id=1409&fuseaction=va2.browse&sort= Collection&item=Soviet%20Nuclear%20Development The Cold War Museum - The Berlin Blockade: http://www.coldwar.org/articles/40s/berlin_blockade.asp Cold War - Yalta: Peace, Power and Betrayal: http://www.opb.org/education/coldwar/yalta/index.html PBS - Cold War - Berlin Blockade: www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/bomb/peopleevents/pandeAMEX49.html U.S. Department of State - The Marshall Plan: www.america.gov/st/washfile-english/2005/April/200504291439291CJsamohT0.6520502.html
1950's	The Avalon Project at Yale Law School - The U2 Incident: www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/u2.htm BBC News - Communist States Sign the Warsaw Pact: http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/may/14/newsid_3771000/3771065.stm BBC News - The Cold War: The Korean War - An Overview: www.bbc.co.uk/history/worldwars/coldwar/korea_hickey_01.shtml Cold War International History Project - The Warsaw Pact: www.wilsoncenter.org/index.cfm?topic_id=1409&fuseaction=va2.browse&sort= Collection&item=The%20Warsaw%20Pact Cold War International History Project - The Korean War: www.wilsoncenter.org/index.cfm?topic_id=1409&fuseaction=va2.browse&sort= Collection&item=The%20Korean%20War NASA - Sputnik and the Origins of the Space Age: http://history.nasa.gov/sputnik/sputorig.html The Times Looks Back: Sputnik: http://www.nytimes.com/partners/aol/special/sputnik/?scp=1&sq=the times looks back sputnik&st=cse The Rosenberg Trial http://www.law.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/FTrials/rosenb/ROSENB.HTM http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/USArosenbergT.htm http://www.ccny.cuny.edu/library/Divisions/Government/rosenbergs.html
1960's	BBC News - John F. Kennedy and the Cuban Missile Crisis: www.bbc.co.uk/history/worldwars/coldwar/kennedy_cuban_missile_01.shtml Cuban Missile Crisis - The Bay of Pigs: http://library.thinkquest.org/11046/days/bay_of_pigs.html Cuban Missile Crisis - An Overview of the Conflict: http://library.thinkquest.org/11046/days/index.html JFK Presidential Library - Bay of Pigs: http://www.atomicarchive.com/Treaties/Treaty8.shtml JFK Presidential Library - Nuclear Test Ban Treaty: www.jfklibrary.org/Historical+Resources/JFK+in+History/Nuclear+Test+Ban+Treaty.htm Library of Congress - Revelations fro the Russian Archives: Cuban Missile Crisis: http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/archives/colc.html The Making of the Limited Test Ban Treaty, 1958-1963: www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB94/ Building the Berlin Wall http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/people/highlights/010815_berlinwall.shtml Newseum's Berlin Wall: http://www.newseum.org/berlinwall/ Think Quest's The Space Race: http://library.thinkquest.org/07aug/00861/thespacerace.htm The Space Race http://www.nasm.si.edu/exhibitions/gal114/spacerace/sec100/sec100.htm http://www.coldwar.org/Articles/60s/space_race.asp http://www.history.ac.uk/ihr/Focus/cold/articles/godwin.html#12t
1970's	Atomic Archive - SALT I: http://www.atomicarchive.com/Treaties/Treaty8.shtml Atomic Archive - SALT I I: http://www.atomicarchive.com/Treaties/Treaty13.shtml BBC New - The Day the Viet Nam War Ended: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/4491193.stm BBC News - Looking Back at Iran's Revolution: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/1814141.stm History of Iran: Islamic Revolution of 1979 http://www.iranchamber.com/history/islamic_revolution/islamic_revolution.php Cold War International History Project - Soviet Invasion of Afghanistan: www.wilsoncenter.org/index.cfm?topic_id=1409&fuseaction=va2.browse&sort= Collection&item=Soviet%20Invasion%20of%20Afghanistan Cold War Museum - Afghan War (1978-1992): http://www.coldwar.org/articles/70s/afghan_war.asp FAS (Federation of American Scientists) - SALT I: http://www.fas.org/nuke/control/salt1/ FAS (Federation of American Scientists) - SALT II: http://www.fas.org/nuke/control/salt2/ US State Department - Ending the Vietnam War: www.state.gov/r/pa/ho/time/dr/17411.htm Nixon's Visit to China http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/china/sfeature/nixon.html http://www.nixonlibrary.gov/virtuallibrary/tapeexcerpts/chinatapes.php http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/february/21/newsid_2728000/2728761.stm http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB106/index.htm Detente http://www.historylearningsite.co.uk/detente.htm
1980's	BBC News - 1985: Gorbachev Becomes Soviet Leader: http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/march/11/newsid_2538000/2538327.stm BBC News - 1989: Berliners Celebrate the Fall of the Wall: http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/november/9/newsid_2515000/2515869.stm The Case for the MX: www.airpower.au.af.mil/airchronicles/aureview/1980/jul-aug/korb.html National Security Archive - Afghanistan: Lessons from the Last War: http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB57/soviet.html Last Soviet Soldiers Leave Afghanistan: http://partners.nytimes.com/library/world/africa/021689afghan-laden.html?Partner=PBS&RefId=Eutttn-uFBqv Ronald Reagan on the Strategic Defense Initiative: www.nuclearfiles.org/menu/key-issues/missile-defense/history/reagan_on-strategic-defense-iniative.htm World Book - The Cold War After 1980: http://www.worldbookonline.com/student Nicaraguan Civil War http://www.state.gov/r/pa/ei/bgn/1850.htm http://www1.american.edu/TED/ice/nicaragua.htm http://www.nicaragua.com/blog/nicaragua-origins-and-effects-of-the-contra-war Peristroika and Glasnost http://www.soviethistory.org/index.php?page=subject&SubjectID=1985perestroika&Year=1985 YouTube - Gorbachev, Glasnost, Perestroika, Arms Agreement End of the USSR (1980's to 1990's) http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/worldwars/coldwar/soviet_end_01.shtml http://www.nytimes.com/1991/12/26/world/end-of-the-soviet-union-the-soviet-state-born-of-a-dream-dies.html?pagewanted=1
Political Cartoons	Clifford H. Baldowski Editorial Cartoons Collections "Cold War:" http://dbs.galib.uga.edu/cgi-bin/ultimate.cgi?dbs=bald&userid=galileo&serverno=8&instcode=publ&_cc=1 Edmund Valtman: The Cartoonist That Came in From the Cold: http://www.loc.gov/rr/print/swann/valtman/presentation.html Herblock's History - Political Cartoons from the Crash to the Millennium: http://www.loc.gov/rr/print/swann/herblock/fire.html It's No Laughing Matter - Analyzing Political Cartoons - Cartoon Analysis Guide: http://frontiers.loc.gov/ammem/ndlpedu/features/political_cartoon/index.html Library of Congress - Prints & Photography Online Catalog: http://www.loc.gov/rr/print/catalog.html
Propaganda Techniques	American and Russian Propaganda Techniques During the Cold War: www.associatedcontent.com/article/312785/american_and_russian_propaganda_ techniques.html?cat=37 Argument, Persuasion, or Propaganda - Analyzing World War II Posters: http://www.readwritethink.org/lessons/lesson_view.asp?id=829 PBS Reporting America At War - Propaganda Techniques: http://www.pbs.org/weta/reportingamericaatwar/teachers/pdf/propaganda.pdf Propaganda Critic: http://www.propagandacritic.com/ Recognizing Propaganda and Errors of Faulty Logic: http://academic.cuesta.edu/acasupp/as/404.htm Teaching with Documents: Powers of Persuasion - Poster Art of World War II: http://archives.gov/exhibits/powers_of_persuasion/powers_of_persuasion_home.html
Oral Histories	Rutger's Oral History Archives (Models provided): http://oralhistory.rutgers.edu/ Step by Step Guide to Oral History http://dohistory.org/on_your_own/toolkit/oralHistory.html 42 Explore- Oral History (extensive links provided): http://www.42explore2.com/oralhst.htm**

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