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A documentary with interactive maps, archival footage, the key players, recently declassified documents, and touring the cold war capitals through 3-D images.
http://us.cnn.com/SPECIALS/cold.war/

http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/modsbook46.html#The%20Cold%20War

» A Bipolar World - 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.
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/modsbook46.html#The%20Cold%20War

» A Secret Landscape
National-security Command, Control, Communications, Computers, and Intelligence (C4I) infrastructure. Focuses on ad hoc C4I sites.
http://coldwar-c4i.net/

http://members.aol.com/yo1460/byopr/report1.html

» 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.
http://members.aol.com/yo1460/byopr/report1.html

» Cold War
Includes history and psychological examinations of this period.
http://www.angelfire.com/bc3/coldwar/

» Cold War - Timeline
Interactive containing events with information and images.
http://us.cnn.com/SPECIALS/cold.war/timeline/frameset.html

http://www.wilsoncenter.org/index.cfm?topic_id=1409&fuseaction=topics.home

» Cold War International History Project
Hosts hundreds of previously inaccessible documents dealing with the Cold War.
http://www.wilsoncenter.org/index.cfm?topic_id=1409&fuseaction=topics.home

» 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.
http://www.coldwar.org

» Cold War Project
A miscellaneous collection of information, documents and photographs. Produced by Videofact
http://www.videofact.com/coldwar.htm

» Cold War at a Glance
Lists of events and incidents organised in timeline and region.
http://www.geocities.com/cold_war_at_a_glance/

http://www.ibiblio.org/expo/soviet.exhibit/coldwar.html

» 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.
http://www.ibiblio.org/expo/soviet.exhibit/coldwar.html

http://www.archive.org/details/Disturbed_Ground_Journeys_along_the_remnants_of_the_Iron_Curtain_by_EronWitzel

» Disturbed Ground: Journeys Along the Remnants of the Iron Curtain
The story of the divide told through an exploration of the 800-mile scar it left behind by Eron Witzel.
http://www.archive.org/details/Disturbed_Ground_Journeys_along_the_remnants_of_the_Iron_Curtain_by_EronWitzel

» 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.
http://www.grenzer.com/

» 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.
http://www.fas.harvard.edu/~hpcws/

» Instruments of Statecraft
Study of U.S. guerilla warfare, counter insurgency, and counter terrorism, from 1940 to 1990.
http://www.statecraft.org/

http://www.angelfire.com/il/coldwar/Cldwr.html

» Krieghan's Cold War Presentation
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.
http://www.angelfire.com/il/coldwar/Cldwr.html

» Notes on Nationalism
An essay by George Orwell in 1945.
http://www.resort.com/~prime8/Orwell/nationalism.html

» 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.
http://www.isn.ethz.ch/php/

» Political Writings of George Orwell
Essays, newspaper columns, letters and editorials from 1943 - 1947.
http://www.resort.com/~prime8/Orwell/

» Politics and the English Language
An essay by George Orwell in 1946.
http://www.mtholyoke.edu/acad/intrel/orwell46.htm

http://www.ibiblio.org/expo/soviet.exhibit/entrance.html

» 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.
http://www.ibiblio.org/expo/soviet.exhibit/entrance.html

» Stanislav Petrov Averts a Worldwide Nuclear War - Bright Star Sound
The story of Stanislav Petrov, a Russian officer whose refusal to launch a nuclear strike, in response to a false report of a US attack, averted a nuclear war in 1983.
http://www.brightstarsound.com

http://www.nps.gov/history/nr/twhp/wwwlps/lessons/29ike/29ike.htm

» Thaw in the Cold War: Eisenhower and Khrushchev at Gettysburg
Information on a 1959 Soviet-American summit and how President Eisenhower'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.
http://www.nps.gov/history/nr/twhp/wwwlps/lessons/29ike/29ike.htm

» The Cold War
A summary of the Cold War.
http://www.hpwt.de/Kalterkriege.htm

» 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.
http://www.diefenbunker.ca

» The Flying Crowbar
At the dawn of the atomic age, scientists began work on what might have been the nastiest weapon ever conceived.
http://www.merkle.com/pluto/pluto.html

http://www.learningcurve.gov.uk/coldwar/

» 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.
http://www.learningcurve.gov.uk/coldwar/

http://library.thinkquest.org/10826/mainpg.htm

» 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.
http://library.thinkquest.org/10826/mainpg.htm

http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Column/5655/COMHOME.html

» 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.
http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Column/5655/COMHOME.html