The Decades

1950-1959 - culture and history

Culture

History

  • Soviet Archive - take a tour of the Library of Congress exhibit which describes the relationship between the United States and the Soviet Union during the Cold War
  • CNN Cold War series - - CNN also provides interactive topics based on their award winning series. It has information on the Bomb, espionage, culture, technology, primary documents, and a chronology. The Knowledge Bank contains a glossary, biographies and maps. This has a wealth of information on this topic
  • Cold War International History Project - site is maintained by the Woodrow Wilson International School for Scholars in Washington, DC; this site has primary source material on the Cold War - just click on the Virtual Library
  • Cold War Politics - this site includes articles and primary documents on the following aspects of the Cold War:  negotiations, containment, detente, confrontations, glasnot and revolutions
  • Cold War International History Project - site is maintained by the Woodrow Wilson International School for Scholars in Washington, DC; this site has primary source material on the Cold War - just click on the Virtual Library
  • United Nations - facts about the UN, its charter and organization
  • United Nations - 50th Anniversary from CNN; click on the timeline to look for information on the formation of the UN and its involvement in world peacekeeping missions
  • NATO - click on welcome to get an overview of the history of NATO; look at organization to find the members of NATO
  • The Fiftieth Anniversary of the Marshall Plan - this is an exhibit at the Library of Congress
  • The Korean War - this site contains enormous amounts of information on the Korean War ranging from the Army Handbook to each country's involvement to personal narratives
  • Korean War - the site commemorates the 50th anniversary
  • The Story of McCarthyism - this is from Spartacus encyclopedia; scroll down for events, organizations, blacklisted and the investigators
  • Berlin Airlift - photos, texts, and archives; from the Truman library
  • U.S. Air force Berlin Airlift Site - facts, figures and photo gallery
  • The Berlin Wall - a chronology of the history of the Wall includes history in text and pictures
  • The History of the Berlin Wall -  - interactive exhibit of news stories about Wall
  • The Bay of Pigs Invasion - from the U.S. Air Force museum
  • The Bay of Pigs Invasion -40 years after
  • NSA and the Cuban Missile Crisis - looks at the role of the U.S. National Security Agency in gathering intelligence during the crisis
  • Vietnam War Internet Project - scroll down for resources, images, documents, articles, military history and personal narratives.
  • The War for Vietnam
  • The Warsaw Pact - primary document
  • Warsaw Pact - an excellent explanation from the Library of Congress

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1960-69 : culture and history

Culture

History

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1970-1979 - culture and history

Culture

History

  • Timeline of the 70s - this timeline provides a year by year description of events and news; even provides prices and statistics
  • The Vietnam War Archive - pictures and audio files
  • The Vietnam War - this is from PBS's television show, Vietnam a television history
  • The Watergate Decade - photographs from the seventies emphasizing Watergate; also includes the Carter and Reagan administrations

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