Cold War Resources
Websites:
The Cold War Museum
http://www.coldwar.org/index.asp
Primary Sources from the Miller Center at the University of Virginia
http://millercenter.org/academic/dgs/primaryresources/cold_war
“Cold War Files” from the Wilson Center. Contains a timeline of events, important people and document and multimedia
files.
http://legacy.wilsoncenter.org/coldwarfiles/index.html
Cold War Resources from the National Archives
http://www.archives.gov/research/alic/reference/military/cold-war-and-marshall-plan.html
Comprehensive resource from CNN. Includes video clips.
http://www.cnn.com/SPECIALS/coldwar
Cuban Missile Crisis online exhibit from the JFK Library
http://microsites.jfklibrary.org/cmc/
eBook Texts:
** If you don’t know how to get to the eBooks site, ask Ms. San Filippo or Mrs. Keneally. The eBooks for this topic are
fantastic and will be very helpful…so you want to be able to access them! **
When you get to the eBooks site, just enter in your search term at the top OR you can go to one of these specific texts…
Bowling, Beatniks and Bell Bottoms: Pop Culture of the 20th Century
Cold War Reference Library
Space Exploration Reference Library
American Decades
Encyclopedia of Espionage, Intelligence and Security
Americans at War
Multimedia:
“Facts about Fallout” brochure (1955) from the National Archives
http://research.archives.gov/description/306714
Photograph of a display of survival supplies for a fallout shelter (1961) from the National Archives
http://www.archives.gov/education/lessons/fallout-docs/images/survival-supplies.gif
“Crash Course” videos by John and Hank Green
http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL8dPuuaLjXtMwmepBjTSG593eG7ObzO7s
“The Cold War: Part 1” by Media Rich Entertainment
http://youtu.be/HpYCplyBknI
“The Berlin Wall” – short video from the History Channel
http://www.history.com/topics/cold-war/berlin-wall/videos/deconstructing-history-berlin-wall