Cold War and End of the Cold War

Cold War Causes and Effects on SCORE
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Eastern European Uprisings on SCORE
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Collapse of the Soviet Union on SCORE
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Soviet Archives Exhibit
http://www.ibiblio.org/expo/soviet.exhibit/entrance.html
The exhibit of letters, documents, and secret papers includes two sections:  "The Internal Workings of the Soviet System" and "The Soviet Union and the United States."

Red Files
http://www.pbs.org/redfiles/
Soviet propaganda, sports wars, KGB victories, Soviet moon mission, etc.

Union of the Soviet Socialists Republics
http://encarta.msn.com/find/Concise.asp?ti=00600000

The Soviet Union Factbook
http://www.skalman.nu/soviet/

The Cold War
http://cnn.com/SPECIALS/cold.war/episodes/01/

Cold War International History Project
http://cwihp.si.edu/
A web site from the Wilson International School for students that contains an archive of Cold War documents and links to other web sites.

Library of Congress Cold war Documents
http://metalab.unc.edu/expo/soviet.exhibit/coldwar.html

Yalta Agreement
http://www.uncg.edu/psc/yalta.htm

Truman's notes from Potsdam
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/presidents/nf/featured/truman/potsdam.html

The Importance of Yalta and Hirshima
http://expert.cc.purdue.edu/~phealy/yalta.html

Truman Library
http://www.trumanlibrary.org/

Truman Doctrine
http://www.britannica.com/bcom/eb/article/idxref/5/0,5716,613159,00.html

Britain-Economic Crisis and Relief
http://www.britannica.com/bcom/eb/article/8/0,5716,120048+14,00.html

Marshall Plan
http://www.britannica.com/bcom/eb/article/idxref/8/0,5716,483664,00.html

Marshall Plan-CNN's The Cold War
http://clinton.cnn.com/SPECIALS/cold.war/episodes/03/

Iron Curtain-CNN's The Cold War
http://clinton.cnn.com/SPECIALS/cold.war/episodes/02/

Berlin-CNN's The Cold War
http://clinton.cnn.com/SPECIALS/cold.war/episodes/04/

Korean War Historical Documents
http://www.geocities.com/Pentagon/1953/index.html

The Vietnam War
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/vietnam/index.html

The History Place: The Vietnam War
http://www.historyplace.com/unitedstates/vietnam/index.html

Investigating the Vietnam War
http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/vietnam.html

The Berlin Wall
http://www.dailysoft.com/berlinwall/index.html

Fall of the Berlin Wall
http://www3.northstar.k12.ak.us/schools/nph/twt/berlin/berlin1.htm

Berlin Airlift Foundation
http://www.berlin-airlift.de/

Russian Studies
http://www.departments.bucknell.edu/russian/

Poland 1980-81
http://www.pbs.org/weta/forcemorepowerful/poland/
A companion web site to the PBS series on non-violence.  This section entitled "We've Caught God by the Arm" is about the Solidarity movement in Poland.

Democracy in Russia
http://www.closeup.org/russia.htm
Teaching materials from the Close-Up Foundation.

Srebrenica, Crying From the Grave
http://www.pbs.org/wnet/cryfromthegrave/
Srebrenica, Bosnia, the world's first United Nations Safe Area, was the site of the worst case of genocide in Europe since World War II. In July 1995, the Bosnian Serb army staged a brutal takeover of the small, intimate spa town and its surrounding region. Over a period of five days, the Bosnian Serb soldiers separated Muslim families and systematically murdered over 7,000 men and boys in fields, schools, and warehouses.

The Real 13 Days-The Cuban Missile Crisis
http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/nsa/cuba_mis_cri/
The real story of the Cuban missile crisis from the the National Security Archives.  The site contains documents, recordings and photographs.

The Hollywood Ten
http://www.hollywood10.com/
List of the various blacklisted writers, actors and directors with biographies and transcripts.  There is also information on the people who testified against them.

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