I wish that I had more time to do a more exhaustive search online for Cold War resources and also to organize these a bit better.
Suggested websites for further study:
- Please feel free to suggest a relevant website.
- The Cold War International History Project
- Wikibooks: World History (Consequences of the Second World War)
- At Boundless World History, see the section on the Cold War (well done).
- Lecture 14: The Origins of the Cold War
- Lecture 15: 1968: The Year of the Barricades
- Lecture 16: 1989: The Walls Came Tumbling Down
- The Elusive Peace, The Cold War (excerpts)
- National Security Archive/Cold War/Interviews includes a series of interviews with important players in the Cold War such as Sergei Khrushchev, Robert McNamara, Henry Kissinger, George Kennan, Clark Clifford.
See also the Cold War documents.
- Cold War Bibliography and websites
- The Cold War in Europe, 1945-1990 (animated map)
- List of Primary and Secondary Sources on the Cold War (a wikipedia bibliography which is very brief but not necessarily very good)
- The Cuban Missile Crisis, 1962: The 40th Anniversary
- Cold War: Cuban missile crisis (revelations from the Russian archives)
- BBC History: Cold War
- Cold War History
from history.com
- The UK National Archives site on the Cold War
- The Cold War Museum (Now located at Vint Hill, VA--so it could be an extra credit site visit--and still being developed)
- Poznan-Budapest 1956
- Cold War (the wiki entry)
- Cold War Files: Interpreting History through Documents
- The National Archives: Cold War
- Cold War Studies at Harvard University (HPCWS). See also the project's Links to Cold War Studies on the Internet.
- Cold War: US Military Operations
- Cold War Studies Programme
- Center for Cold War Studies and International Studies at UC Santa Barbara
- Cold War Civil Defense Museum
- Diefenbunker: Canada's Cold War Museum
- The Cold War Era: Web Links
- National Cold War Exhibition (at the RAF Museum)
- World War, Cold War, 1939-1953 (FBI website)
- The Cold War in Berlin (from the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum, includes video of Kennedy speech)
- Special Program: The Rise and Fall of the Berlin Wall with Tom Brokaw and Robert Macneil
(Newseum video conversations)
- Freedom Without Walls - Fall of the Wall,
1989 - 2009
(German embassy site dedicated to the Wall)
- The Cold War (from the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum)
- Vietnam on Television
- The Berlin Airlift (Harry S Truman Library & Museum)
- Doing Cold War History: A Practical Guide
- NuclearFiles.org: Reagan/Gorbachev Era
- The John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, has a number of
very useful case studies regarding the Cold War as part of their Case Studies in Public Policy & Management program. Typically, each of these short studies contains background
information, notes and teaching exercises; you can order in booklet or downloadable forms (very inexpensive). These are
some of the example case studies dealing with different aspects of the
Cold War:
- The Coming of the Cold War (#144.0) with an accompanying teaching note (#144.2) and supplement (#144.4)
- Greek Crisis and the Truman Doctrine: A Rationale for Intervention (#966.0)
- Korean War Aims (#484.0) and teaching note (#484.2)
- Kennedy and the Bay of Pigs (#279.0) and teaching note (#279.2)
- Democracy and Security in the Dominican Republic: The Kennedy and Johnson Interventions (#967.0)
- Lyndon Johnson and Czechoslovakia, 1968: Non-Intervention by Default? (#968.0)
- Americanizing the Vietnam War (#271.0) and Americanizing the Vietnam War: Vietnam Documents (#271.4)
- SALT I: Getting from Nyet to Yes (#814.0) with teaching notes (#815.2)
- Persuading a President: Jimmy Carter & American Troops in Korea (#1319.0)
- SS-9 Controversy: Intelligence as Political Football (#884.0)
- Deciding to Use Force in Grenada (#795.0)
- Reykjavik Summit: Watershed or Washout? (#813.0)
These are some Cold War timelines:
These are some online document collections:
- Documents Related to American Foreign Policy: The Cold War
- The Avalon Project, Documents in Law, History and Diplomacy: The Cold War
- Internet Modern History Sourcebook: A Bipolar World
- George Kennan, The Sources of Soviet Conduct (1947)
- Khrushchev's Secret Speech (Crimes of the Stalin Era, Special Report to the 20th Congress of the Communist
Party of the Soviet Union, Closed session, February 24-25,
1956, By Nikita S. Khrushchev, First Secretary, Communist Party of the Soviet Union),
- Online exhibit of Soviet-American Relations
- HistoryWiz: The Cold War
- Christopher Lee, Cold War Missiles Target of Blackout: Documents Altered To Conceal Data
- Truman Presidential Library
- CIA FOIA Documents:
- The National Security Archive (George Washington University)
- Red Files includes websites on
the Secret Soviet Moon Mission, Soviet propaganda, Soviet Sports Wars and Secret Victories of the KGB
- The Soviet-Led Intervention in Czechoslovakia
Some major Cold War events:
Web pages from the HIS 135 course relevant to the Cold War:
These are from the HIS 242 course:
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