COLD WAR RESOURCES

COLD WAR RESOURCES
An Internet Hotlist on COLD WAR

created by Marilyn Abramowitz
Mineola High School Library

Introduction
Consult the library's print resources and online databases. Use these links for additional information.

The Internet Resources

Origins,Timelines,Endings & Comprehensive Sites

1940-1989: The Cold War - Noam Chomsky explains the nature of the Cold War between the West and the Soviet Union before its collapse in 1989.
A War of Ideas: a History of the Cold War -
At Cold War's End: US Intelligence on the Soviet Union & Eastern Europe -
Autumn of Change - The Revolutions of 1989 in Europe - from CNN
Berlin Wall Online - history, timeline and more
Cold War History -
Cold War International History Project -
Cold War Policies 1945-1991 -
Cold War Timeline - from origins to end
Cold War: Causes & Origins - from Shmoop
Eastern Bloc (aka Communist Bloc) - Eastern Bloc refers to the former Communist states of Eastern and Central Europe, especially the Soviet Union and its satellites in the Warsaw Pact.
End To The Cold War -
History in Focus - The Cold War - articles, links, bibliography + more
Origins of the Cold War (1) -
Peace Becomes Cold War, 1945-1950 -
The 1950s: the Cold War & the Affluent Society -
The Berlin Wall -
The Berlin Wall: Two Sides, One Story -
The Changing Map of Europe: 1989 - 2009 - from CNN
The Cold War (Avalon Project) -
The Cold War Museum -
The Cold War, 1953-60 - the Eisenhower years
The Harvard Project on Cold War Studies -
The Origins of the Cold War: U.S. Choices after World War II -
Timeline of the Cold War -

McCarthyism, Spies, HUAC

'Have You No Sense of Decency?' - Senator Joseph R. McCarthy's allegations of Communist infiltration
Age of McCarthyism -
Blacklist: A Different Look at the 1947 HUAC Hearings -
Blacklisting Hollywood's Communists: A Qualified Defense -
Cold War: McCarthyism & Red Scare - from Shmoop
HUAC -
HUAC and Censorship -
Hollywood Blacklist -
House Un-American Activities Committee -
Joseph McCarthy: A Modern Tragedy -
McCarthyism: The Great American Red Scare -
Naming Names -
Seeing Red - PBS program on Blacklisted Hollywood
The Alger Hiss Story -
The Paul Robeson Collection -
The Rosenberg Trial -

Arms & Space Races

Civil Defense - The Fallout Shelter -
Cold War Studies - articles relating to Redstone Arsenal's Role in the Cold War
From the Earth to the Moon: The Space Race -
Human Radiation Experiments -
International Control of Atomic Energy (1949) -
Minuteman Missile National Historic Site - integral components of America's nuclear arsenal of land-based ICBMs, submarine-launch missiles, and manned bombers
National Museum of the U.S. Air Force - Cold War Aircraft Hangar
Nixon-Khruschev News Conference on ICBMs - early 1960s
Online Air Defense Radar Museum -
Race for the Superbomb - the film, timeline, maps, people & events
Soviet Misinterpretation of U.S. Position on Atomic Energy (1949) -
Space Race -
The Arms Race - How Technology Defined Our Identity
The Bureau of Atomic Tourism -
The Space Race - Exploring Space & Venting Hot Air
U.S. Navy Submarine Force Museum - home of the USS Nautilus - world's 1st nuclear powered submarine

Kennedy, Castro & Cuba

14 Days in October: The Cuban Missile Crisis -
Castro, Khrushchev & Kennedy -
Cold War Topics - includes: Cuban Missile Crisis, Postwar Estrangements, Soviet Perspectives
Cold War: Cuban Missile Crisis to Detente - from Shmoop
Cuban Missile Crisis -
History of the U.S. Blockade of Cuba -
Kennedy & Castro: The Secret History -
Kennedy and The Cold War -
Operation Peter Pan - exodus of Cuban children to the U.S.
The Bay of Pigs Revisited -

Documents

Maps

Content by Marilyn Abramowitz, mnora68@yahoo.com
http://www.kn.att.com/wired/fil/pages/listcoldwarma.html
Last revised Thu Jul 21 15:36:16 US/Pacific 2011