- CNN - Cold War
While the Cold War was putting the world on edge, television was coming of age and luring Americans to the living room couch. Examination of the Cold War era through movies, television and books reviews. Take the Cold War interactive quiz.
- Ronald Reagan and the Soviet Union
Examines the last few years of the Cold War, with a particular focus on Ronald Reagan's policy towards the Soviet Union. Includes pictures and a comprehensive speech section.
- At Cold War's End: US Intelligence on the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe, 1989-1991
A CIA document including links to full-text intelligence reports on events during the final years the Soviet Union and the Cold War. Includes a brief historical overview and extensive references.
- Bay of Pigs Report
A report on the failed Bay of Pigs invasion of 1961. Analysis of the origins, planning, execution, and ultimate failure of the American operation to bring down Cuban dictator of Fidel Castro. Links to related sites.
- Belaura's Cold War Page
History of the Cold War with information and slide show of the major players and the principal arenas of the Cold War. Includes a chronology of major events and interviews with people who lived through the events.
- Cold War Guide
Provides accurate and handy information about events, people, states, agencies and services of the Cold War. Also includes various data, essays, texts and useful links.
- Cold War International History Project (CWIHP)
Hosts hundreds of previously inaccessible documents dealing with the Cold War.
- Cold War Museum
Presents essay-like articles, commenting selected events of the Cold War in a narrative, chronological way, accessible through a timeline. Also photo presentations in a museum-like way.
- Cold War Project
A miscellaneous collection of information, documents and photographs. Produced by Videofact
- Cold War: Postwar Estrangement
A historical exhibit of contentious Soviet-American relations before and during the Cold War. Includes links to Russian language documents relating the Soviet views of the Cold War.
- Conrad O'Brien
Read the history and biography of this french artist and spy, who may have been the inspiration for the fictional secret agent character James Bond.
- Grenzer.com
A historical survey of East German and US border operations along the Iron Curtain from 1945-1989. Includes chronology, technology and operations, review of units and guards, and submitted war stories.
- Harvard Project on Cold War Studies (HPCWS)
Features declassified documents, information about The Journal of Cold War Studies, a digital multimedia archive, and related links.
- Instruments of Statecraft
Study of U.S. guerilla warfare, counter insurgency, and counter terrorism, from 1940 to 1990.
- Internet Modern History Sourcebook: A Bipolar World
A discussion of the bipolarization of global politics caused by the Cold War. Provides links to documents on the origins of the Cold War, the Berlin Crises, the Cuban Crises, periods of East-West detente, and information on Cold War leaders.
- 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.
- Soviet Archives: Entrance Room
An online exhibit on how Soviet-American relations were conducted between the two governments and the two societies. Also discusses inner workings of the Soviet system of government.
- Thaw in the Cold War: Eisenhower and Khrushchev at Gettysburg
Information on a 1959 Soviet-American summit and how President Eisehower's brand of diplomacy led to a temporary easing of Cold War tensions. Includes documents from the meeting, a small image gallery, and links to further sources.
- The Cold War
An overview of the Cold War and a collection of essays on Cold War topics.
- The Cold War
Includes history and psychological examinations of this period.
- The Cold War
A directory guide to Cold War topics such as Cuba, spying, McCarthyism, the arms race, the space race, the Berlin Wall, and the military and non-military confrontations of the superpowers.
- The Cold War
Discusses key Cold War leaders and Soviet and American Cold War Policies. Coverage of the impact of the Cold War on technological development, international relations and conflicts. Also includes a Cold War game and links to related websites.
- The Cold War Reference
Provides information on several angles of the conflict, including the developing issues before World War II, key events from 1940s-80s, and prominent figures.
- The Diefenbunker - Canada's Cold War Museum
The Diefenbunker was built in 1959-61 to house Canadian leaders during a nuclear attack but now serves as Canada's Cold War Museum. Includes Diefenbunker history, facts, virtual tour, and trivia.
- The National Archives Learning Curve | Cold War
Narrative answers to the most common questions of the Cold War, why did it start, who started it; how the common believes are reflected in what really happened.
- The Privacy War
Book about one Congressman's battle with J. Edgar Hoover over the collection of illegally obtained private information of U.S. citizens in the name of Cold-War national security. Reviews, author profile.
- War of Ideas: A History of the Cold War
Includes biographies of the principal Cold Warriors in the West and East, detailed reports on the different facets of the Cold War, a chronology of major Cold War events, and links to external resources. Also has a Cold War game and a trivia section.
- When the Iron Curtain Fell: The Fall of Communism in Russia and East Europe
History of the Cold War that discusses the origins of Communist rule and Stalin's dictatorship, the American response to the Communist challenge, the fall of the communism in East Europe. Includes an image archive, timeline, and interviews.
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