Topic :Cold War
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Cold War: From Yalta to Malta (CNN)
This CNN Perspectives series explores the Cold War experience. Included are interactive maps, rare video footage, declassified documents, biographies, picture galleries, timelines, interactive activities, a search function, book excerpts, an educator's guide and more. (Demands a 4.0 browser or higher)
Episode One: Comrades 1917-1945
U.S and Russia as allies; video interview with George Kennan, a tour of a Cold War prison, historical documents and more
Episode Two: The Iron Curtain 1945-1947
Cold War military museum, a Brinkmanship interactive game, a video interview with George Kennan, a spotlight on the Oder-Niesse Line, a look at post Cold War US-Russian relations and more<<
Episode Three: The Marshall Plan 1947-1952
Has a brinkmanship simulation, a feature on the birth of the CIA, an analysis of the IMF, discussion of the Czech coup in 1948 and more.
Episode Four: Berlin 1948-1949
Features a West German radio report, reflections of a Berlin mayor, a look at propaganda, a brinkmanship simulation and more
Episode Five: Korea 1949-1953
The special features of this site include spotlights on the Russian connection, the continuing divide between North and South Korea, a look at America's Korean War memorial, a brinkmanship game, interviews and more
Episode Six: Reds 1948-1949
Intensification of the Cold War; features a look at the Red Scare then and now, the United States Communist Party, totalitarianism and has an excerpt from Daniel Moynihan's Secrecy
Episode Seven: After Stalin 1953-1956
Reflections by Krushchev's son, Kremlin power struggles, NATO's importance, and a German radio report.
Episode Eight: After Sputnik 1949-1961
Explores the new arms race launched by the Soviet atomic bomb. There are features on espionage, Russia's space exploits, interactive timeline
Episode Nine: The Wall 1959-1963
Explores shootings at Wall, U.S. unpreparedness, reflections
Episode Ten: Cuba 1959-1968
Features the ExComm files, the hotline between Kennedy and Khrushchev, contemporary Cuba and an interview with Fidel Castro
Episode Eleven: Vietnam 1954-1968
Spotlight on Dien Bien Phu, changing media-military rules, the "living room" war
Episode Twelve: MAD 1960-1972
Examines "mutual world destruction" and escalating arms race
Episode Thirteen: Make Love, Not War :The Sixties
Spotlights the draft, music, the "silent majority" and protests
Episode Fourteen: Red Spring The Sixties
Features the sexual revolution, the rehabilitation of communism, and a look at a ex-patriot Soviet artist
Episode Fifteen: China 1949-1972
Spotlights Kissinger's secret talks with Mao, conflict between Beijing and Moscow and "pingpong" diplomacy and US-China rapprochement
Episode Sixteen: Detente 1969-1975
Features a Brezhnev confidant, critiques of detente, and space cooperation
Episode Seventeen: Good Guys, Bad Guys 1967-1978
Examines African Renaissance, mercenaries for hire, Arab-Israeli peace process
Episode Eighteen: Backyard 1954-1990
Central America, Caribbean, South America as battleground; examines School of Americas, plan to fund the Contras in Nicaragua, conflicts in Mexico
Episode Nineteen: Freeze 1977-1981
Features Carter-Brezhnev years, John Paul II topples communist domino, politics of European security, missile diplomacy
Episode Twenty: Soldiers of God 1975-1988
Afghan War detente crumbles- Olympic games, Afghan legacy, Russian pain
Episode Twenty One: Spies 1945-1900
Stories of dead spies, finding good spies, counterintelligence, continuing espionage
Episode Twenty Two: Star Wars 1980--1988
Russian reaction to, Star Wars rebound, arms agreements
Episode Twenty Three: The Wall Comes Down 1989
Slideshow of lifting Iron Curtain in 1989, reformers in Hungary, surprise of fall of Berlin Wall, chaos in Russia during last years of Cold War
Episode Twenty Four: Conclusions
Paradox of Yeltsin, what the Cold War, daunting Russian future
People's Century (PBS)
The site is based on a 26-episode television series and features a teacher's guide, a timeline, a thematic overview, and RealAudio excerpts. Selected programs:
Young Blood: 1950-1975 (PBS)
Focus is on youth movement in America in 1960s
Brave New World: 1945-1961 (PBS)
Site probes the changing world order after WWII and emergence of Cold War
Freedom Now: 1947-1990 (PBS)
Covers the overthrow of colonial rule in Asia and Africa
Skin Deep: 1945-1994 (PBS)
Probes the challenge to racial oppression in the United States and South Africa
Fallout: 1945-1995 (PBS)
Examines the atomic age in the Cold War era
Picture Power: 1939-1997 (PBS)
Probes how television transformed society, culture, and politics
The Great Leap: 1943 to 1976 (PBS)
Focus is on Chairman Mao and the communist takeover in China
Guerrilla Wars: 1956-1989 (PBS)
Discusses guerrilla war movements in Vietnam, Afghanistan and elsewhere
God Fights Back: 1978-1992
Examines religious fundamentalism in the East and West
People Power: 1971-1991 (PBS)
Examines the fall of Communist rule in the Soviet Union
Fast Forward: 1980-1999 (PBS)
Probes the impact of communications technology and business globalization on the traditional world order
Cold War International History Project
The Cold War International History Project features new evidence from Central and Eastern European archives of the Cold War in Asia. It also offers a CD-ROM on "Bulgaria and the Cold War." You can also learn about the George Washington University, NEH-supported collaboration to train high school teachers in recent advances in Cold War historiography. The CWIHP Bulletin contains recently released and translated documents from former Communist-world archives, along with brief introductions by leading Cold War historians and archivists.
Soviet Archives Exhibit (Library of Congress)
Site contains declassified Soviet documents from 1917 to 1991
Cold War Policies 1945-1991
Written by a professor at the University of San Diego, this is part of a larger site from the History Department. The major topics are: Negotiation, Demonstration, Containment, Coercion, Detent, Confrontation, Glasnost, and Revolution. While basically a time-line of policies and events, included are primary sources, detailed maps and links to other sites, such as Reagan and Gorbachev's pages.
Korean War Project
Has information on the history of the war and links to casualty lists
Cuba (BUBL Link)
Contains a useful assembly of links on Cuba
1968: The Whole World Was Watching (BrownU.)
An oral history project that features recollections of a group of Rhode Islanders regarding pivotal events and issues in 1968
The Wars for Vietnam
This site was produced by students out of Vassar college and provides an overview of the Vietnam war, primary documents and photos, and links to other related sites
Vietnam, Stories Since the War (PBS)
Another well done PBS site; it contains background information on the Vietnam War, first-hand stories of veterans, an index, a search function.
Cambodian Holocaust
This site relates personal stories from the Cambodian genocide of the Khmer Rouge years. There are photographs and suggested resources.
Vietnam: A Television History(PBS)
Part of PBS's American Experience series, this informational site includes video clips of the war, background information and much more.
The Face of Russia (PBS)
This informative PBS site attempts to answer the question: Who are the Russian People? There is a timeline, glossary, bibliography, media index, links, lesson plans, and a chat forum.
K-19
Inspired by National Geographic's Widowmaker film, this online feature delves into the history of K-19, and the Cold War politics and mechanical malfunctions that led to a Russian nuclear submarine disaster in the summer of 1961. This interactive site offers director's commentary, K-19's schematic, movie stills, selected profiles of U.S. and Russian subs, a sunken submarine map, an exploration of the evolution of submarine technology and much more.
For Lesson Plans, Teacher Guides, Activities, and more go to Cold War Era section under U.S. History
The World in Uncertain Times, 1950–Present Practice Test
High School level quiz on Cold War America from Prentice Hall.
The World in Uncertain Times, 1950–Present Document Based Essay
This Prentice Hall DBQ is designed to test your ability to work with historical documents and is based on the accompanying documents (1–6).
Intervene or Interfere?
Exploring Forty Years of United States Intervention in Foreign Affairs
In this lesson, students will research the motives, actions, and results of U.S. intervention in foreign affairs between the 1961 Bay of Pigs invasion and the 2003 invasion of Iraq; they then present their research to class for comparative analysis.(April 7, 2003)
See U.S. History: Cold War Era for more resources