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Cold War
 Websites presented in alphabetical order At Cold War's End: US Intelligence on the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe, 1989-1991 
 Declassified CIA documents from 1989-1991 incorporate a 1999 study of the period from 1989-1991, which signaled the end of the Cold War. The foreword and preface of this long document explain the project and its expectations. Also includes a chronology of events and an overview of the historical events. From The Center for the Study of Intelligence (CSI) of the CIA and the George W. Bush Center for Presidential Studies at Texas A&M University. https://www.cia.gov/library/center-for-the-study-of-intelligence/csi-publications/books-and-monographs/at-cold-wars-end-us-intelligence-on-the-soviet-union-and-eastern-europe-1989-1991/art-1.html#rtoc1 Topics: History, History By Place, International Governments, Military, Regions of the World, Wars & Conflicts Last updated Oct 28, 2007 The Berlin Airlift
Devoted to the post-World War II Berlin airlift (1948-49), during which "the Truman administration reacted with a continual daily airlift which brought much needed food and supplies into the city of West Berlin." Includes background information about the event, memos, reports, telegrams, photographs, oral histories, and more. From the Harry S. Truman Presidential Museum and Library. http://www.trumanlibrary.org/whistlestop/study_collections/berlin_airlift/large/ Topics: History, History By Place, Military, Nonfiction by Genre, Photograph Collections: History, Photograph Collections: Regional, Presidents by Name, Wars & Conflicts Last updated Mar 1, 2008 The Cold War and Red Scare in Washington State
Curriculum project about McCarthyism and the fear of Communism in post-World War II Washington state. The site features essays on topics such as radicalism and anti-radicalism in Washington politics and "Hunting Reds in the Evergreen State," and dozens of related primary source documents. Also includes a timeline, bibliography, and glossary. From the Center for the Study of the Pacific Northwest at the University of Washington. http://www.washington.edu/uwired/outreach/cspn/Website/Resources/Curriculum/Cold%20War/Cold%20War%20Main.html Topics: History, U.S. History By Place Last updated Jun 23, 2009 The Cold War Era Civil Defense Museum
This virtual museum is "dedicated to the Civil Defense personnel of the United States who worked throughout the Cold War to try to protect the public from nuclear attack." Among the exhibits are bomb shelter tours, illustrated inventories of shelter supplies and toilet facilities, radiation kids, a sizable art gallery of official posters from the Office of Civil Defense, and audio files of radio warnings. http://www.civildefensemuseum.com/ Topics: History, Military, Wars & Conflicts, Weapons Last updated Jan 18, 2004 Cold War International History Project (CWIHP)
This site houses a large collection of historical materials and ongoing discussions by governments and scholars on all sides of the Cold War. Established by the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars. http://www.wilsoncenter.org/index.cfm?topic_id=1409&fuseaction=topics.intro Topics: History, Military, Wars & Conflicts Last updated Aug 31, 2005 Cold War Modern: Design 1945-1970
This 2008-2009 exhibition explores "international developments in modern art, design, architecture and film in the context of the Cold War." An interactive timeline provides the basis for exploration of exhibit objects and themes such as social realism, the "space race," and revolution and protest. Also features videos and a map of locations related to the exhibit. From the Victoria and Albert Museum (V&A). http://www.vam.ac.uk/microsites/cold-war-modern/ Topics: Art, History Last updated Feb 23, 2009 Cuban Missile Crisis, 1962: The 40th Anniversary
A collection of declassified documents and other information about the Cuban Missile Crisis. Includes photographs, audio clips, submarine naval charts, a detailed chronology, and analyses. Also includes materials from the 40th Anniversary Conference held in Havana in 2002 and links to related news articles and publications. From the National Security Archive at George Washington University. http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/nsa/cuba_mis_cri/ Topics: History, Holidays and Observances Individually, International Governments, Military, United States History, Wars & Conflicts Last updated Apr 5, 2004 Family of Spies
A companion site from a Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) television program that explored "What is it like to live with an intelligence agent? How do family members feel about their spying husbands or fathers and what they did? What questions still linger in their minds about those actions and the sometimes hazy motivations behind them?" Featured families include the sons of Ethel and Julius Rosenberg and the wife and elder daughter of Theodore Alvin Hall. http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/venona/family.html Topics: Government, History, Military, Wars & Conflicts Last updated Jun 25, 2003 Fast Attacks and Boomers: Submarines in the Cold War
Explores how "nuclear powered submarines played major roles in American policy and strategy from the 1950s to the 1990s, the years of the Cold War between the United States and the Soviet Union." Tells how the "machines were built, operated and utilized, [and] what life was like for the sailors on board and their families back home." Also has history of submarines and a Cold War timeline. From the Smithsonian National Museum of American History. http://americanhistory.si.edu/subs/ Topics: Energy, History, Military, Science, Technology, Transportation, Wars & Conflicts Last updated Jul 16, 2002 Frontstadt.Berlin: Travel Notes From the Cold War
This article by a retired senior Foreign Service officer describes how foreign diplomats and others traveled to and from and within Berlin in the years soon after World War II. Topics include the Berlin Wall, air travel, train travel, and personal anecdotes. From American Diplomacy, published in cooperation with University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill's Curriculum in Peace, War and Defense and the Triangle Institute for Security Studies. http://www.unc.edu/depts/diplomat/archives_roll/2004_01-03/heichler_frontstadt/heichler_frontstadt.html Topics: History, History By Place Last updated Aug 6, 2007 Government Views of the Rosenberg Spy Case
"This site concentrates on primary government documents and information about both the Rosenberg case and the people involved. Resources include a number of declassified documents from such Federal agencies as the FBI and the Central Intelligence Agency, as well as documents obtained under the Freedom of Information Act." Includes links to documents about the case and trial, the Cold War, and the Verona Project. From the Cohen Library of the City College of New York. http://www.ccny.cuny.edu/library/Divisions/Government/rosenbergs.html Topics: Crime, History, Judicial Process, Military, Wars & Conflicts Last updated Oct 22, 2003 Parallel History Project on NATO and the Warsaw Pact
Provides access to declassified documentation and information about the development of NATO and the Warsaw Pact, their threat perceptions, and their military plans. Sources are drawn from the archives of both NATO and former Warsaw Pact countries, including Bulgaria, the Czech Republic, Germany, Hungary, Poland, and Romania. Searchable. http://www.php.isn.ethz.ch/ Topics: Government, History, International Governments, International Law, Treaties, & Agreements, Military, Wars & Conflicts Last updated Feb 1, 2007 The Presidency and the Cold War
"To a large extent, the history of the Cold War in America revolves around the ten presidents who served from World War II to the collapse of the Berlin Wall and the breakup of the Soviet Union. This exhibition highlights how those presidents shaped or reacted to events during this era." View sections on the presidents: Franklin Roosevelt, Truman, Eisenhower, Kennedy, Johnson, Nixon, Ford, Carter, Reagan, and George H.W. Bush. From the National Portrait Gallery. http://www.npg.si.edu/exhibit/coldwar/index.html Topics: History, The United States Presidency Last updated Sep 23, 2008 Prisoner Abuse: Patterns From the Past
This May 2004 electronic briefing discusses U.S. interrogation manuals from the Cold War era. It features the full text of two CIA manuals: "Human Resource Exploitation Training Manual-1983 and KUBARK Counterintelligence Interrogation-July 1963, [which] were originally obtained under the Freedom of Information Act by the Baltimore Sun in 1997." Also includes two related memos from the 1990s. From the National Security Archive at the George Washington University. http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB122/ Topics: Government, Government, History, Military, National Security, Wars & Conflicts Last updated May 19, 2004 Secrets, Lies, and Atomic Spies
Companion to a PBS NOVA program that "chronicles the lives and covert activities of the so-called 'atom spies' in the 1940's." Features information about "translations of Soviet cables decrypted back in the 1940s by the Venona Project," the U.S. government's effort to intercept messages from Soviet military intelligence. Also includes transcripts of "interviews with the closest relatives of some of America's most notorious atomic spies," biographical information about 20th century spies, and a teacher's guide. http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/venona/ Topics: Government, Government, History, Military, Wars & Conflicts Last updated Nov 6, 2003 U.S. Army Transportation Museum: The Cold War
Historical overviews of some of the Cold War experimental operations of the U.S. Army transportation corps, such as the Airgeep (a "flying jeep"), a cybernetic walking machine, the Rocket Belt (a low-power rocket propulsion device), an aerial tramway, and an early personal "flying platform" called the De Lackner Aerocycle. Includes many photos and diagrams. From the U.S. Army Transportation Museum. http://www.transchool.eustis.army.mil/Museum/ColdWarIndexpage.htm Topics: Military, U.S. Military Last updated Aug 5, 2008 Yalta Casts Its Shadow 60 Years On
February 2005 article that notes that "the dark memories" of the Yalta Conference still linger in the "60 years since the three major allied leaders, Roosevelt, Churchill and Stalin, met to divide up the world in the old summer palace of the tsars in the Crimean resort of Yalta." Includes links to related articles. From the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC). http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/4241863.stm Topics: History, Military, Politics by Place, Presidents by Name, Travel, Wars & Conflicts Last updated May 18, 2005 |
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