The Cold War
- CNN Cold War series -
- CNN also provides interactive topics based on their award winning series.
It has information on the Bomb, espionage, culture, technology, primary
documents, and a chronology. The Knowledge Bank contains a glossary,
biographies and maps. This has a wealth of information on this topic
- Cold War Politics
- this site includes articles and primary documents on the following aspects
of the Cold War: negotiations, containment, detente, confrontations,
glasnot and revolutions
-
Cold War International History
Project - site is maintained by the Woodrow Wilson International School
for Scholars in Washington, DC; this site has primary source material on the
Cold War - just click on the Virtual Library
- United Nations - facts about the
UN, its charter and organization
- United Nations
- 50th Anniversary from CNN; click on the timeline to look for information
on the formation of the UN and its involvement in world peacekeeping
missions
- NATO - click on welcome to get an
overview of the history of NATO; look at organization to find the members of
NATO
- The Fiftieth Anniversary
of the Marshall Plan - this is an exhibit at the Library of Congress
- The Korean War
- this site contains enormous amounts of information on the Korean War
ranging from the Army Handbook to each country's involvement to personal
narratives
- Korean War - the site commemorates
the 50th anniversary
- The Story of McCarthyism
- this is from Spartacus encyclopedia; scroll down for events,
organizations, blacklisted and the investigators
-
Berlin
Airlift - photos, texts, and archives; from the Truman library
- U.S.
Air force Berlin Airlift Site - facts, figures and photo gallery
- The Berlin Wall - a
chronology of the history of the Wall includes history in text and pictures
- The History of
the Berlin Wall - - interactive exhibit of news stories about Wall
- The Bay of
Pigs Invasion - from the U.S. Air Force museum
- The Bay of
Pigs Invasion -40 years after
- NSA and the Cuban
Missile Crisis - looks at the role of the U.S. National Security Agency
in gathering intelligence during the crisis
- Vietnam
War Internet Project - scroll down for resources, images, documents,
articles, military history and personal narratives.
- The War for Vietnam
- The
Warsaw Pact - primary document
- Warsaw
Pact - an excellent explanation from the Library of Congress
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