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RECOMMENDED COLD WAR WEBSITES

CNN - Cold War

The Cold War Museum

20th Century History > Cold War in the Yahoo!...

Cold War

Cold War International History Project @ the ...

The National Archives Learning Curve | Cold War

Cold War - Academic Info

WWW-VL: History: United States: US Cold War H...

Cold War

General Interest

American Cultural History: The Twentieth Century (arranged by decades)

American Heritage.com (magazines with articles about American History) LR has a print collection in the reference section from 1945-current

American Memory Historical Collections for the National Digital Library (images & other primary sources)


Specific Events

Berlin Airlift

Brown v Board of Education

CNN Cold War

Cold War International History Project

Cold War Museum

Dwight D. Eisenhower

Fair Deal

The GI Bill

History of the National Security Act

History of the United Nations

How did the Taft-Hartley Act Come About?

Jackie Robinson Foundation

John Foster Dulles

John Foster Dulles (Sparticus)

Joseph McCarthy

Joseph R. McCarthy: A Featured Biography

The Marshall Plan

NASA History

National Aeronautics and Space Act of 1958 (U...

National Security Act

NATO: History of Mine Contermeasures Force Northern Europe

Nikita Khrushchev

Race for the Superbomb

Sputnik

Sputnik and the Dawn of the Space Age

Submarines: Underway on Nuclear Power

Suez Crisis

Taft-Hartley Labor Act

Truman Doctrine

Truman Presidential Library

U-2 Incident

U-2 Incident Exhibit

Warsaw Pact, 1955

The Yalta Conference

Yalta Conference

The Yalta Conference, Feb. 1945

LR Library Resources

Use the library catalog:

  • encyclopedias are great starting points
  • look for "Cold War" as a key-word search
  • use additional terms and perform a key-word search
  • use the books in the reference section to find specific information (see the list below for some recommendations)
  • be creative--use biographical encyclopedias for information about people

Recommended reference books:

REF 520 OUT, Outerspace space travel (Vol. 8)

REF 909.82 CHR, Chronicle of the 20th century

REF 909.82 COL, The Cold War, 1945-1991

REF 909.82 FAC, The facts on file encyclopedia of the 20th century

REF 909.82 JEN, The century

REF 909.82 TWE, The 20th century year by year

REF 917.3 THI, This fabulous century, 1950-1960

REF 917.3 THI, This fabulous century, 1940-1950

REF 920.003 ENC, Encyclopedia of world biography

REF 920.03 CUR, Current biography yearbook & index

REF 973 AME, Witness to America: an illustrated documentary history of the United States from the Revolution to today

REF 973 AME, American Heritage, 45-year cumulative index

REF 973 AN, The annals of America

REF 973 C, Documents of American history

REF 973 M, The Oxford history of American people

REF 973.022 A, Album of American history

REF 973.03 C, Concise dictionary of American history

REF 973.03 DIC, Dictionary of American history

REF 973.9 AME, American decades (1940-1949)

REF 973.9 AME, American decades (1950-1959)

REF 973.91 AME, American decades primary sources: 1950-1959

REF 973.92 USA, U.S.A. sixties

REF 973.921 TWE, Twentieth-century America: a primary source collection from the Associated Press

REF 973.927 LEV, Encyclopedia of the Reagan-Bush years

REF 920.009 ENC, Encyclopedia of world biography

 

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