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The Placid Fifties

Culture

• Ad Access - images and information on over 7,000 ads found in newspapers and magazines from 1911 to 1955
• Retro 50s - this site has everything you want to know about the culture of the 50s
• Literature and Culture of the 1950s - This site features an alphabetical list of links and readings on the American 1950s and Cold War sites.
• Literature and Culture of the Fifties - this excellent site from the University of Pennsylvania has links to some wonderful fifties sites
• Broadway Plays of the 50s - information on the Tony award winners
• Oldies Unlimited - music of the 50s
• Time Gallery - a look at the 50s
• Kid's TV - children's programs of the 50s including Captain Kangaroo and Howdy Doody
• The Fifties Web - scroll down for music and television of the fifties; even includes midi files
• The VW and America in the 50s
• The History of McDonalds
• Jukebox Museum - Wurlitzer has posted pictures and information; click on 1950

Fashion

• 20th Century Fashion - get an overview of fashion year-by-year.

Slang

• Slang of the Fifties - arranged alphabetically

History

• The Birth of the Atomic Age - from the Air Power Museum; information on the development of the atomic bomb, the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki and its aftermath
• 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 Politics
• 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
• Korean War Facts - timelines of events
• 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
• The Age of McCarthy - includes the history of this period and primary source material; also includes the impact of this period on American history
• McCarthyism - from Spartacus Encyclopedia; includes an overview of the era with links to the hearings, blacklists, investigators and the Hollywood Ten
• McCarthy Era - this site from CNN provides transcripts of trials and interviews with participants; get
  background on the major players from CNN's own research
• The Berlin Wall - a history in text and pictures
• The History of the Berlin Wall
• Remembering the Korean War - this is an excellent site from the historical archives of West Point

The Hippie Sixties

Culture