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1990's

REFERENCE

Bibliography, Including Internet Gateways

Cold War Bibliography [part of the Cold War Science and Technology Studies Program at Carnegie Mellon University]
Documents Relating to American Foreign Policy: The Cold War by Vincent Ferraro, Mt. Holyoke College

Academic Info - The Cold War: Directory of Internet Resources

The Cold War International History Project at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars

The Cold War & The Social Sciences> An Annotated Bibliography compiled by J. Christina Smith, Anthropology/Sociology Bibliographer and Reference Librarian, Mugar Memorial Library, Boston University

A Practical Guide to Doing Cold War History, Marc Trachtenberg, Professor of Political Science, UCLA

The Literature of Intelligence: A Bibliography of Materials, with Essays, Reviews, and Comments, J. Ransom Clark, Vice President for Administration, Muskingum College

A Finding Aid to National Archives Records Relating to the Cold War

Selected, Annotated Bibliography on English Language Works on History of East Central Europe and the Balkans (Part III. 1945 to Present), Anna Cienciala, Prof. of History and Russian and E. European Studies emeritus, Univ. of Kansas

Bibliography of the Vietnam War, Edwin E. Moise, Professor of History, Clemson University

Virtual Libraries

The National Security Archive at George Washington University

Focus on Film: Cold War, from the U.K. National Archives
European Navigator (ENA), a web site exploring European history and documents since 1945 at Centre Virtuel de la Connaissance sur l’Europe (CVCE)
The American Presidency Project at USC Santa Barbara
Cold War Policies 1945 - 1991 by Dr. Steven Schoenherr , University of San Diego

Presidential Libraries and Museums

Virtual Museums

Cold War Museum
Virtual Space Museum (Russian)
National Museum of the United States Air Force (home page)
- Cold War Gallary
- Modern Flight Gallery (Korean and Southeast Asian Wars)
- Missile and Space Gallery
- Civil Defense Museum

Timelines
- Cold-War Guide Timeline
- Cold War Timeline 1945 to 1955
- Cold War Timeline 1956 to 1965
- Cold War Timeline 1966 to 1975
- Cold War Timeline 1975 to 1985
- Cold War Timeline 1986 to 1995
- Cold War Timeline: Indirect Conflicts
- Cold War Timeline: Nuclear Weapons and Weapons Treaties
- Cold War Timeline: Race to the Moon
- Nuclear Timeline
- Chronological Table of Nuclear Weapons
- Missile Race Chronology
- United States Relations with Russia Timeline: The Cold War from the U.S. Department of State
- Timeline 1946-1950 (A project of the Digital Scriptorium)
- Timeline 1951-1955 (A project of the Digital Scriptorium)
- Calendar of Events Exposing Imperialist Policies (from 1971 Soviet Central Committee Report)
Maps

Organizations and Journals
- Research Centers
  - Cold War International History Project (CWIHP) (at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars)
  - The Cold War Science and Technology Studies Program (at Carnegie Mellon University)
  - The Institute for the History of the 1956 Hungarian Revolution
  - Open Society Archives (archives/documents of former communist countries)
  - Cold War History Research Center, Budapest (site unavailable 7/2007)
  - LSE Cold War Studies Center, United Kingdom
  - Parallel History Project on Cooperative Security (PHP)
  - Open Society Archives at Central European University
- Associations
  - Air America Association
  - Berlin Airlift Veterans Association [provides good coverage]
  - Cold War Veterans Association
  - Fall of Saigon Marine Association
  - United States Submarine Veterans Inc.
- Journals
  - Foreign Relations of the U.S. 1945 - 1968 (Declassified Documents of the U.S. Department of State)
  - Foreign Relations of the U.S. 1969 - 1972 (Declassified Documents of the U.S. Department of State)
  - Journal of Cold War Studies
  - Cold War History

CHRONOLOGY

Chronological History
- General
  - Cold War: A CNN Television History Educator's Guide to CNN's Cold War (requires RealPlayer, Shockwave)
  - BBC History: The Cold War
  - Cold-War Guide
  - The Cold War from McGraw-Hill Higher Education Web
  - An Outline of American History by USIA, see chapters 12-15 for Cold War period
  - Cold War Experience: Culture (CNN Interactive Web Site)
  - Conelrad, Cold War "Pop" Culture
  - The Cold War (from a Marxist perspective)
  - Cold War Policies 1945-1991, Steve Schoenherr, Professor of History, Univ. of San Diego
  - Learning Curve Cold War (from the United Kingdom National Archives)
  - USAF Museum--Cold War Exhibit 1949-1989
  - GlobalSecurity.org--Cold War Era Summary
  - Cold War Culture: The Nuclear Fear of the 1950s and 1960s
  - Bartelby.com World History Encyclopedia Article on Cold War
- Chronological
  - Origins of Cold War
    - The Origins of the Cold War, from "The History Guide" by Steven Kreis, Florida Atlantic University and Meredith College
    - Did The Cold War Really Start in the Period 1919-1939?
  - 1945
    - The First Year of the the Cold War: 1945
    - The American Joint Intelligence Committee and Estimates of the Soviet Union, 1945-1947
    - Emergence of the U.S. Intelligence Establishment 1945-1950
    - The Atom Bomb
      - Atomic Archive (This site explores the invention of the atomic bomb)
      - Rise of the Nuclear Age
      - The Atomic Bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
        by The Manhattan Engineer District, June 29, 1946
      - Harry Truman and the Atom Bomb
    - The Yalta Conference
      - The Beginning of the Cold War
      - Official Text of the Agreements Reached at the Yalta Conference or at Taiwan Documents Project
      - Yalta Conference from Spartacus Educational by John Simkin
    - German Surrender Documents from University of Oklahoma College of Law
    - Charter of the United Nations; June 26, 1945
    - Truman and the United Nations
    - The Potsdam Conference, 17 July to 12 August
      - The Conference
      - The Potsdam Declaration, 1 August 1945
      - Post World War Two Settlement from Encyclopedia of Marxism
      - Cold War: Postwar Estrangement (Library Congress Soviet Archives Exhibit)
    - Eastern Europe 1945-1956 (lecture notes of Anna Cienciala, Univ. Kansas)
    - Emergence of the Intelligence Establishment (U.S. State Department, Foreign Relations of the United States 1945-1950)
  - 1946
    - The Long Telegram, February 22, 1946
    - Cold War Demonstrations
    - Churchill's "Iron Curtain" Speech, March 5, 1946
  - 1947
    - Greet the New High Tide of the Chinese Revolution by Mao Tse-tung
    - Marshall's Statement on the Situation in China, January 7, 1947
    - The Truman Doctrine, 1947
    - The Marshall Plan
      - Marshall Plan Speech, June 5, 1947
      - The European Recovery Act (The Marshall Plan) from National Archives
      - PBS, Newshour, "Remembering the Man and His Plan," 5 June 1997
      - The Marshall Plan; Investment in Peace, 50th Anniversary
      - Establishing the Marshall Plan (from the Truman Library)
      - For European Recovery: The 50th Anniversary of the Marshall Plan
      - The Marshall Plan (from Marxist perspective)
    - "The Sources of Soviet Conduct", by X (George Kennan), Foreign Affairs, July 1947
    - Memo from General Marshall to President Truman on the Greek situation, July 16, 1947
    - Creation of National Security Council
  - 1948
    - The Alger Hiss Case, 1948
      - Alger Hiss and Whittaker Chambers 1948
      - The Alger Hiss Story
    - Treaty of Economic, Social, and Cultural Collaboration and Collective Self-defense (Brussels Treaty), March 17, 1948
    - Charter of International Trade Organization, March 24, 1948 (Excerpts)
    - Charter of the Organization of American States;
      March 30-May 2, 1948
    - The Berlin Blockade and Air Lift, 1948
      - The Berlin Airlift June 1948-May 1949, Harry S. Truman Library and Museum
      - On the Front Lines of the Cold War CIA Documents on the Intelligence War in Berlin 1946-1961
      - Berlin Airlift--Pictorial History
      - Berlin Airlift Historical Association
      - Berlin Airlift National Museum of the USAF
      - Naval Aviation's Involvement in the Berlin Airlift
      - Translation of a letter, dated July 14, 1948, by Alexander S. Payushkin (Soviet Ambassador) to U.S. Secretary of State
      - Major Harry R. Borowski, "A Narrow Victory: The Berlin blockade and the American Military Response," 6 August 2001
    - Universal Declaration of Human Rights
    - 1948 Communist Takeover of Czechoslovakia
    - Italy and the Election of 1948
    - Malaya, 1948: Britain’s ‘Asian Cold War’? by Phillip Deery
  - 1949
    - Dean Acheson, Secretary of State 1949-1953
    - NATO Treaty of 1949
    - The Chinese Revolution of 1949
  - 1950
    - The 1950's in General
      - American Culture and Society in the 1950's
      - WWW-VL: History: USA: 1950-1959 Index
      - 1950's: The Cold War and the Affluent Society, lecture notes by Stanley K. Schultz, Professor of History, Univ. of Wisconsin-Madison
    - United States Relations with China: Separation and Reopening (1950-2001), from U.S State Department
    - McCarthyism (1950-1954)
      - An Overview
        
        The Coils of the Cold War, lecture notes by Stanley K. Schultz, Professor of History, Univ. of Wisconsin-Madison
      - The Tools
        
        The Alien Registration Act of 1940
        The McCarran Act - The Internal Security Act of 1950
        McCarran Act or Internal Security Act of 1950
        The Federal Bureau of Investigation
        The House UnAmerican Activities Committee
        Informers, e.g.,
        
        Burl Ives
        Lee J. Cobb
        
        Blacklists and Other Economic Sanctions
        HUAC and Censorship Changes
        Blacklist
      - Joseph McCarthy
        
        The Age of McCarthyism. A Brief History with Documents, by Ellen Schrecker
        The Real McCarthy Record. A Longtime Smear Campaign Has Clouded the Truth, by James J. Drummey [1987]
        Pres. Eisenhower on McCarthyism [Documents from the Eisenhower Library]
        Eisenhower and the Red Menace
        Censure of Senator Joseph McCarthy
        FBI Documents on Joseph McCarthy Obtained under the Freedom of Information Act
        Joseph McCarthy FBI Files at the Paperless Archives (Available on CD-Rom)
      - Targets
        
        Philip Morrison, Cornell Professor of Physics, before a Congressional Anticommunist Investigating Committee
        The Ballad of John Henry Faulk, by Phil Ochs
        
        The Hollywood Ten and the Tragedy of Albert Maltz
        
        The Hollywood Blacklist
        
        Hollywood and the Movies in the 1950's: A Short Bibliography of Books and Articles in the UC Berkeley Libraries
        Hollywood 10 Documents, Michigan State University Libraries
        
        Scenes from the HUAC Investigation of 1947
        "The Hollywood Ten" [brief biographies]
        The Salt of the Earth - Blacklisted Film
      - Consequences of the McCarthy Era
        
        Naming Names, by Victor Navasky (1980)
        
        The Politics of Scholarship: Liberals, Anti-Communism, and McCarthyism, by Athan Theoharis
        
        Teacher's Guide: How Fear Threatens Freedom, A Theamatic Approach: From the Inquistion to the McCarthy Era, by James P. Brochin, Yale-New Haven Teacher's Institute
    - The Korean Conflict 1950-1953
      - WWW-VL: US Military History: Korean War 1950-1953
      - Korean-War.com
      - The Korean War: An Overview (from BBC)
      - The Korean War, Document Collection at the Cold War International History Project
      - Examining the Korean War
    - NSC 68: United States Objectives and Programs for National Security (April 14, 1950)
    - "Kennan's Long Telegram and NSC-68: A Comparative Analysis", by Efstathios T. Fakiolas, East European Quarterly, Vol. 31, no. 4, January 1998
  - 1951
    - The Trial and Execution of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg
      - The Rosenbergs Trial 1951
      - Excerpt from Ethel and Julius Rosenberg Trial Transcript (Judge Irving Kaufman Pronouncing Sentence on April 5, 1951)
      - The Rosenbergs. Victims of Col War Hysteria
    - Recall of General Douglas MacArthur, Speech of President Harry Truman, April 16, 1951 (alternative site for Truman Speech)
    - Security Treaty Between the United States, Australia, and New Zealand (ANZUS); September 1, 1951
    - Military Assistance Agreement Between the United States and Yugoslavia, November 14, 1951
  - 1952
    - Establishment of the National Security Agency
    - Detonation of H-Bomb "Mike" Test at Eniwetok
    - Youngstown Sheet & Tube Co. v. Sawyer Decision, 343 U.S. 579 (1952)
  - 1953
    - The Secret CIA History of the Iran Coup 1953
    - A Short Account of 1953 Coup: Operation Code-Name: TP-AJAX
    - Mutual Defense Treaty Between the United States and the Republic of Korea; October 1, 1953
    - 1953 Dwight D. Eisenhower, First Inaugural Address
    - Eisenhower's Chance for Peace Speech
  - 1954
    - Disappearance of 3 Cape Cod (U.S. reconnaissance/spy plane flown out of Iwakuni Air Base, Japan on 4 January 1954)
    - CIA and Assassinations: The Guatemala 1954 Documents
    - U.S. Senate Censure of Senator Joseph McCarthy
    - First Taiwan Straights Crisis, August 11, 1954--May 1, 1955
    - The Southeast Asia Collective Defense Treaty (Manila Pact); September 8, 1954 and the Pacific Charter, September 8, 1954 (SEATO)
    - United States Atomic Energy Commission. In The Matter of J. Robert Oppenheimer
    - CIA and the U-2 Program, 1955-1974
  - 1955
    - The Warsaw Security Pact: May 14, 1955
    - U.S./Soviet Summit in Geneva, July 1955
    - Eisenhower Opening Statement at Geneva Conference, July 18, 1955
  - 1956
  - 1957
    - The European Revival and the Rome Treaties, Founding of the EEC, 25 March 1957 at ENA
    - Marshal Gregory Zhukov
    - Sputnik--October 4, 1957
      - Sputnik's Change on America
      - Sputnik--Articles reprinted from the N.Y. Times
      - Sputnik and the Dawn of the Space Age (from NASA)
      - Sputnik and the Space Race (documents from the Eisenhower Library)
    - Modern History Sourcebook: President Eisenhower: The Eisenhower Doctrine on the Middle East
  - 1958
    - Second Taiwan Straights Crisis, 23 August 1958-1 January 1959
    - International Relations. 1958-60, Volume X, Part 1, Eastern Europe Region; Soviet Union; Cyprus
  - 1959
    - Eisenhower "Predelegates" Control of Nuclear Arms in the Event of an Emergency
    - Eisenhower's "Predelegation." New Documents
    - Thaw in the Cold War; Eisenhower and Khrushchev at Gettysburg
    - The Antarctic Treaty, December 1, 1959
    - Eisenhower's Farewell Address to the Nation
    1960
    - U2 Spy Plan Incident--1 May 1960
    - - The U-2 Spy Plane Incident [Documents from the Eisenhower Library]
      - Documents relating to the U-2 Spy Plane Incident May 1960
      - The U-2 Airplane Incident
      - Francis Gary Powers: One Man, Two Countries and the Cold War
      - Francis Gary Powers, The U-2, U.S. & U.S.S.R.
      - U-2 Pages
    - The RB-47 Airplane Incident (1 July 1960)
    - The Nedelin Catastrophe 24 October 1960
  - 1961
    - Military-Industrial Complex Speech, Dwight D. Eisenhower, 17 January 1961
    - 1961 - John F. Kennedy, Inaugural Speech
    - Kennedy and the Cold War
    - The Bay of Pigs Invasion of Cuba 17 April 1961
      - The Bay of Pigs Invasion 17 April 1961 [NSA Documents)]
      - State Department Foreign Relations Papers, Volume X, Cuba 1961-1962
      - Official Documents relating to the Bay of Pigs Invasion and the Cuban Missile Crisis
      - The Bay of Pigs / Playa Girón
      - The ULTRASENSITIVE Bay of Pigs. Newly Released Portions of Taylor Commission Report Provide Critical New Details on Operation Zapata
      - The Bay of Pigs Revisited, May 1993
      - Bay of Pigs Report by Jared Wiener
      - "We Began With a Revolutionary People" Fidel Castro's 23 April 1961 Speech after Bay of Pigs
    - Berlin Crisis of 1961
      - The 1961 Berlin Crisis and Soviet Preparations for War in Europe
      - MauerFotos.de, A Collection of Over 500 Photo's of the Berlin Wall 1984 to 1989. See also, Mauer.jp
      - The Berlin Wall
      - Berlin Wall Online
      - A Concrete Curtain. The Life and Death of the Berlin Wall
    - Kennedy and the Vietnam War
      - John F. Kennedy and the Vietnam Conflict
      - Was Vietnam a Turning Point in the Cold War? (from UK National Archive's Learning Curve Cold War)
      - CIA and the Vietnam Policy Makers: Three Episodes 1962-1968
  - 1962
    - The Cuban Missile Crisis
      - The Cuban Missile Crisis (at the Cold War International History Project)
      - Cuban Missile Crisis October 1962
      - Cuban Missile Crisis Timeline
      - Official Documents relating to the Bay of Pigs Invasion and the Cuban Missile Crisis
      - Marxist History: Cuba: Subject: Missile Crisis
      - Fourteen Days in October: The Cuban Missile Crisis
      - Index of Documents Relating to the Cuban Missile Crisis
      - Intelligence Imagery and the Cuban Missiles Crisis
      - Reconnaissance and the Cuban Missile Crisis
      - Kennedy and Khrushchev Letters
      - Learning from the Missile Crisis
      - The Adalai Stevenson Moment (Audio Clip of Stevenson's UN Speech During Cuban Missile Crisis)
      - La Crise des Missiles de Cuba (A virtual exhibit from Le Mémorial de Caen--text available in English)
      - British Response to the Cuban Missile Crisis
      - UN Cuban Missile Crisis Debate
      - White House Audio Tapes, October 18 to 29, 1962 (Real Audio required)
      - Foreign Relations of the United States: 1961-1963 Cuban Missile Crisis and Aftermath (part of the Avalon Project at Yale Law School)
      - U.S. State Department Documents
      - National Security Agency
      - CIA Analysis of Cuban Missile Crisis
    - Calling the Sino-Soviet Split, CIA Analysis of the Sino-Soviet Relationship
    - Lies, Deceit and Hypocrisy, a study of the journalism in the early part of the Vietnam War, 1962-63
  - 1963
    - Memorandum establishing Hot Line Between the United States of America and the USSR, 20 June 1963
    - Kennedy at the Berlin Wall 26 June 1963
    - The Kennedy Assassination
  - 1964
    - Cold Night in Erfurt (Soviet Shoot Down of a U.S.A.F. T-39, January 28, 1964)
    - The Tonkin Gulf Incident; 1964 (President Johnson's Speach to Congress and Joint Resolution of Congress H.J. Res. 1145)
    - The Vietnam Conflict 1945-1975
      - WWW-VL : History : Vietnam War
      - The Wars for Vietnam: 1945 to 1975
      - Vietnam Interactive Portfolio
      - The Vietnam War: Seeds of Conflict 1945 - 1960
      - Vietnam: French Indochina War
      - The War in Vietnam, 1954-1964
      - John F. Kennedy and the Vietnam Conflict
      - Documents on Indochina - Vietnam, Cambodia and Laos
      - CIA and the Vietnam Policy Makers: Three Episodes 1962-
      - Congress, the President, and the Battle of Ideas: Vietnam Policy, 1965-1969, by Michael Jay Friedman, from Essays in History (1999)
      - The Vietnam Conflict. The Bitter End, 1969-1975, from the History Place
      - Vietnam War Documents and Photographs Moise Bibliography of the Vietnam War and Edwin Moise Pictures of the Vietnam War
      - The Legacy Events Index: The Vietnam War
      - Memories from the Underground War in Vietnam
      - The Vietnam War and the Tragedy of Containment
      - Was Vietnam a Turning Point in the Cold War? (from U.K. National Archive's Learning Curve Cold War Project)
      - Vietnam Study Guide and Annotated Bibliography, by Steven J. Rosenthal [.pdf file: from Students For a Democratic Society]
      - Liberal Analysis and Federal Power, by Tom Hayden [.pdf file: from Students For a Democratic Society]
      - Vietnam War Resisters in Canada [site of links at University of British Columbia]
      - Vietnam War Documents and Photographs
      - USAF Cold War Museum--Vietnam War
      - Charles de Gaulle: France's Attitude Toward US Policy in Vietnam, 1964
      - Impressions: Australians in Vietnam
  - 1965
    - Lyndon B. Johnson Inaugural Address, 20 January 1965
    - Lyndon B. Johnson, "The American Promise" Speech, 15 March 1965
  - 1966
  - 1967
    - Treaty on Principles Governing the Activities of States in the Exploration and Use of Outer Space, Including the Moon and Other Celestial Bodies; January 27, 1967
  - 1968
    - Pueblo Incident, January 23, 1968 to February 5, 1969 (Operation Red Fox)
    - Tlatelolco Massacre: Declassified U.S. Documents on Mexico and the Events of 1968
    - Prague Spring
      - Prague Spring (From Radio Prague's History Online Virtual Exhibit)
      - Radio Free Europe Report on Czechoslovakia in Spring 1968
      - The Soviet Invasion of Czechoslovakia: August 1968 from Univ. Michigan
    - The Tet Offensive in Vietnam: 20 January to Mid-April 1968
      - Tet Offensive at Hue, March 1968,
    - January-April 1968, Battle of Khe Sanh
    - May 1968, American Withdrawal from Khe Sanh
  - 1969
    - Richard M. Nixon, First Inaugural Speech, 20 January 1969
    - Tet Offensive at Cu Chi, March 1969
    - Apollo 11 Moon Landing
    - Italy and the Legacy of the Cold War (Article on Italian Terrorism)
    - West German and European Unity in U.S. Foreign Policy, 1969-1990
  - 1970
    - Nuclear Arms Proliferation Treaty (entered into force in U.S. on March 5, 1970
    - Kent State Shootings, 4 May 1970
      - Kent State University May 4th Collection at Kent State University
      - "The May 4th, 1970 Shootings at Kent State University; The Quest for Historical Accuracy, by Jerry M. Lewis and Thomas R. Hensley
      - The Kent State Shootings: A Chronology
      - Kent State: Remembering May 4, 1970
      - Kent May 4 Center
      - "Kent's Other Casualties," By Chief Warrant Officer John W. Listman, Jr.
    - The My Lai Massacre Trial
      - The My Lai Courts-Martial, 1970, University of Missouri-Kansas City School of Law
      - My Lai Trial, from CourtTV Online
      - Murder in the name of war - My Lai
      - The My Lai Massacre: A Case Study, By Maj. Tony Raimondo, JA, Human Rights Program, School of the Americas, Fort Benning, Georgia
      - My Lai: An American Tragedy and Lawyering For Uncle Sam When He Draws His Sword by William George Eckhardt (former chief prosecutor in the My Lai cases)
  - 1971
    - Pentagon Papers
      - The Pentagon Papers, from National Security Archives
      - Pentagon Papers "Gravel Edition", drawn from the official record of the U.S. Senate Subcommittee on Public Buildings and Grounds and Introduction to the Gravel Edition by Senator Mike Gravel
      - New York Times Co. v. United States, 403 U.S. 713 (1971) or at The New York Times v. United States ("The Pentagon Papers" decision)
      - Moise's Bibliography: Pentagon Papers
    - Agreement on Measures to Reduce the Risk of Outbreak of Nuclear War Between the United States of America and the Union of Soviet Socialists Republics : September 30, 1971
  - 1972
    - Richard Nixon-Zhou Enlai Talks 21 - 28 February 1972
    - NSA Records of Secret Nixon-Zhou en-Lai Talks
    - Treaty Between the United States of America and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics on the Limitation of Anti-Ballistic Missile Systems; 26 May 1972
  - 1973
    - Chile and the United States: Declassified Documents Relating to the Military Coup, 11 September 1973
    - OPEC Embargo
      - The OPEC Oil Embargo 21 October 1973
      - The effects of the 1973 Oil Embargo
    - War Powers Resolution of 1973
  - 1974
  - 1975
  - 1976
    - Foreign Aid and Human Rights, U.S. Statutes at Large (1976)
  - 1977
    - President Jimmy Carter's Inagural Speech, 20 January 1977
    - Castro-Honecker Meeting, 3 April 1977, Report to Honecker of Castro's southern Africa tour
    - "Human Rights and Foreign Policy," Jimmy Carter Speech, June 1977
  - 1978
  - 1979
  - 1980
    - The 1980-1981 Polish Crisis (at the Cold War International History Project)
    - US Intelligence and the Polish Crisis: 1980-1981
    - Fundamental Causes of the Polish Crisis
    - Konspira, Solidarity Underground 1980-1984
  - 1981
    - President Ronald Reagan's Inaugural Address, 20 January 1981
    - Martial Law Declared in Poland, 13 December 1981
  - 1982

GEOGRAPHICAL INDEX

Afghanistan
- Chronological History of Afghanistan 1978-2001
- The Role of Afghanistan in the Fall of the Soviet Union December 1979-June 1989
- The Soviet Invasion of Afghanistan (at the Cold War International History Project)
Albania
- Library of Congress Country Study: Albania
Angola

Cuban Internationalism in Angola 1975 - 1991
Cuba Followed U.S. Into Angola
Cuban Foreign Policy Objectives in Angola, by Maj. T.P. Sullivan, Marine Corps Command and Staff College, Quantico, Virginia
South African Air Force Fights Two African Wars
Secret Cuban Documents on History of Africa Involvement
Russians in Mozambique and Russians in Anglola from AfricanCrisis.org, a conservative, anti-communist South African web site

Australia

Impressions: Australians in Vietnam

Chile

China
- Selected Works of Mao Tse-Tung
- Library of Congress Country Study: China
- United States Relations with China: Separation and Reopening (1950-2001), from U.S State Department
- China and the Warsaw Pact under Mao and Khrushchev: Documents form the Sino-Soviet Cooperation
- Richard Nixon-Zhou Enlai Talks February 1972
- First Taiwan Straights Crisis, 11 August 1954-1 May 1955
- Second Taiwan Straights Crisis, 23 August 1958-1 January 1959
- China and the United States: From Hostility to Engagement 1960-1998
- The United States, China and the Bomb
- China's Nuclear Weapons
Cuba

Castro's Speech Database
Castroism- Deadly Danger to the Cuban Revolution (a 1962 Marxist analysis of the Cuban Revolution)
Cuban Internationalism
Fidel Castro Archive
Cuban Internationalism in Angola 1975 - 1991
National Security Agency and the Cuban Missile Crisis
NSA Document Archive - 1962

Czechoslovakia
- Czechoslovakia 1968 (lecture notes of Anna Cienciala, Univ. Kansas)>
- Czechoslovakia 1968-1980 (lecture notes of Anna Cienciala, Univ. Kansas)
- Czechoslovakia in 1968: An Invasion Remebered
- The Fall of Communism in Czechoslovakia by Jan Carnogursky
France
- Force de Frappe: French Nuclear Weapons
- Wars In French Indochina
Germany

East Germany 1968-1980 (lecture notes of Anna Cienciala, Univ. Kansas)
"Building Bridges: U. S. Policy Toward FRG Trade with Eastern Europe: 1961-1968", by Joseph R. Glancey, Jr., from Essays in History (1997)
On the Front Line of the Cold War: Documents on the Intelligence War in Berlin, 1946-1961
West German and European Unity in U.S. Foreign Policy, 1969-1990

Guatemala
- CIA and Assassinations: The Guatemala 1954 Documents
- Guatemala "Death Squad" Dossier
- US Policy in Guatemala. 1966-1996
Honduras
- CIA Report on Honduran Military Actions during the 1980's
- The Contras, Cocaine, and Covert Operations
Hungary
- Hungary 1968-1980 (lecture notes of Anna Cienciala, Univ. Kansas)
- Hungary in the Warsaw Pact, 1954-1989
Iran
- The Secret CIA History of the Iran Coup 1953
- The Iran-Contra Affair: The Making of a Scandal, 1983-1988
- 20 Years after the Hostages: Declassified Documents on Iran and the United States
Italy

Korea

Mexico
- Tlatelolco Massacre: Declassified U.S. Documents on Mexico and the Events of 1968
Nicaragua
- The Contras, Cocaine, and Covert Operations
Panama
- The Contras, Cocaine, and Covert Operations
Poland
- Library of Congress Country Study: Poland
- Poland 1957-1981 (lecture notes of Anna Cienciala, Univ. Kansas)
- The 1980-1981 Polish Crisis (at the Cold War International History Project)
- US Intelligence and the Polish Crisis: 1980-1981
- Konspira, Solidarity Underground 1980-1984
Soviet Union (Russia)
- Library of Congress Country Study: Soviet Union
- The Soviet Archives Exhibit
- Documents on the Soviet Union at the Marxist Internet Archive
- Reagan & the Soviets
- Soviet-American Diplomacy
- Brezhnev Doctrine
- Leonid Brezhnev Biography
- Soviet and Russian Nuclear Weapons and History
- The Stanislav Petrov Nuclear Incident
- Yuri Andropov Profile
- Soviet Military Awards Page
- Cold War: Soviet Perspectives (Library Congress Soviet Archives Exhibit)
- Centre for Russian Studies Database (mostly post-Cold War information)
- Seventeen Moments in Soviet History
- CIA's Analysis of the Soviet Union, 1947-1991
- Watching the Bear: Essays on CIA's Analysis of the Soviet Union
- Documents on Soviet-American Diplomacy 1945-1988
- CIA Analysis of the Soviet Union: 1947-1991
- On the Front Lone of the Cold War: Documents on the Intelligence War in Berlin, 1946-1961
- A Cold War Conundrum (CIA Analysis of the Soviet Operation Ryan)
- Intentions and Capabilities: Estimates on Soviet Strategic Forces, 1950-1983 [PDF]
United Kingdom
- Britain's Nuclear Weapons
- Cold War Relics in Britain and Protected Civil Sites from Cold War
United States
- Harry S. Truman
  - Truman Presidential Museum and Library
  - Presidential Reflections on U.S. Intelligence--Truman
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
  - Dwight D. Eisenhower Library
  - Presidential Reflections on U.S. Intelligence--Eisenhower
- John F. Kennedy
- Lyndon Johnson
- Richard Nixon
- Gerald Ford
  - Gerald R. Ford Library and Museum
  - Presidential Reflections on U.S. Intelligence--Ford
- Jimmy Carter
  - Jimmy Carter Biography (Official Whitehouse Website)
  - Jimmy Carter Library and Museum
  - Inaugural Address January 20, 1977
  - Carter: PBS American Experience Documentary
  - Presidential Reflections on U.S. Intelligence--Carter
- Ronald Reagan
  - Biography (from PresidentReagan.info)
  - Brief Bio on Ronald Reagan
  - Pictorial History of Ronald Reagan
  - Roandl Reagan Presidential Library
  - Reagan: PBS American Experience Documentary
  - Reagan and the Soviets
  - Presidential Reflections on U.S. Intelligence--Reagan
- George H.W. Bush
  - George H.W. Bush Presidential Library
  - Character Above All: George H.W. Bush Essay by Michael R. Beschloss
  - George H.W. Bush Profile (from official White House web page)
  - Inaugural Address of George H.W. Bush, 1989
  - George Bush: The Unauthorized Biography by Webster G. Tarpley and Anton Chaitkin
  - Presidential Reflections on U.S. Intelligence--Bush
- U.S. Army's Redstone Arsenal Cold War Studies
- Gallery of U.S. Nuclear Tests
- The Bomb That Fell on Niagara Falls
- Star Wars (SDI)
- Cold War Films
Vietnam
- Library of Congress Country Study: Vietnam
- The Wars for Vietnam: 1945 to 1975
- Edwin Moise Bibliography of the Vietnam War and Edwin Moise Pictures of the Vietnam War
- John F. Kennedy and the Vietnam Conflict
- Memories from the Underground War in Vietnam
- Vietnam Interactive Portfolio
- Documents on Indochina - Vietnam, Cambodia and Laos
- The Vietnam Conflict. The Bitter End, 1969-1975, from the History Place
- Was Vietnam a Turning Point in the Cold War? (from National Archive's Learning Curve Cold War
- CIA and the Vietnam Policy Makers: Three Episodes 1962-1968
- WWW-VL : History : Vietnam War
- USAF Cold War Museum--Vietnam War
- Vietnam Study Guide and Annotated Bibliography, by Steven J. Rosenthal [.pdf file: from Students For a Democratic Society]
- Liberal Analysis and Federal Power, by Tom Hayden [.pdf file: from Students For a Democratic Society]
- Congress, the President, and the Battle of Ideas: Vietnam Policy, 1965-1969, by Michael Jay Friedman, from Essays in History (1999)
- Vietnam War Resisters in Canada [site of links at University of British Columbia]
Yugoslavia (and Balkans)
- The Balkans 1948-1980 (lecture notes of Anna Cienciala, Univ. Kansas)

TOPICAL INDEX

The Arms Race
- Conventional Arms
  - US military (national defense) outlays, 1940-95
  - U.S. defense and security assistance to Latin America and the Caribbean
  - American Military Cold War Operations1945-1989
  - Submarines
    - Fast Attacks & Boomers Submarines in the Cold War
    - Innovation in the U.S. Navy's Silent Cold War Struggle with Soviet Submarines
    - The Nautilus Museum
    - U.S.S. Nautilus [Documents from the Eisenhower Library]
    - King's Bay Trident Submarine Base
  - Missiles and Airplanes Developed During the Cold War
  - Naval Air Station Port Lyautey
- Chemical/Biological Weapons
  - Silent Weapon: Smallpox and Biological Warfare
- Nuclear Weapons
  - Nuclear Weapons
  - The Nuclear Weapons Archive: A Guide to Nuclear Weapons
  - Nuclear Weapons Primer
  - Misslethreat.com, a project of the Claremon Institute
  - Nuclear Weapons Image Gallery (Images of American, Soviet British and Chinese Above Ground Testing)
  - The Atomic Archive: History Surrounding the Invention of the Atomic Bomb
  - Trinity and Beyond; The Atomic Bomb Movie
  - Chronological Table of Nuclear Weapons
  - Atlas Missile Silo Tour
  - Missile Race Chronology
  - Ballistic Missiles
  - Cruise Missiles
  - Pershing Project
  - Gallery of U.S. Nuclear Tests
  - Britain's Nuclear Weapons
  - France's Nuclear Weapons
  - China's Nuclear Weapons
  - Soviet and Russian Nuclear Weapons and History
  - Soviet Hydrogen Bomb Project
  - Citizen Kurchatove: Stalin's Bomb Maker (PBS )
  - The Bomb That Fell on Niagara Falls
  - Nuclear Missile Bunkers/Shelters
    - Excerpts from "Cold War Secret Nuclear Bunkers" by N.J. McCamley (with pictures)
    - Soviet Bomb Shelter Finds New Life (CNN story)
    - UK Bomb Shelter at Kelvedon Hatch Secret Nuclear Bunker
    - Congressional Underground Shelters
    - Hardened Bunkers Primer
    - Project Greek Island; The Congressional Bunker (PBS)
    - Protect and Survive (U.K. Civil Defense Archive)
    - A Tour of a Nuclear Missile Silo
  - Nuclear Arms Race
    - Cold War Experience: The Bomb and Technology (CNN Interactive Web Site)
    - Nuclear Timeline
    - Nuclear Non-Proliferation 1945-1990 (Declassified NSA Documents)
    - Nuclear Arms Treaties and Negotiations
    - Nuclear Arms Proliferation Treaty, March 5, 1970
    - Atomic Archives
    - Rise of the Nuclear Age
    - Hanford Site Historic District (Manhattan Project and Cold War Era)
    - Nuclearfiles.org (A Project of the Nuclear Age Peace Foundation_
    - The Race for the SuperBomb (H-Bomb) (PBS American Experience TV Series)
    - Development of the Russian H-Bomb
    - Eisenhower "Predelegates" Control of Nuclear Arms in the Event of an Emergency
    - Eisenhower's "Predelegation." New Documents
    - The Stanislav Petrov Nuclear Incident
    - The United States, China and the Bomb
    - USAF Museum--Strategic Weapons Gallery
    - Cold War Culture: The Nuclear Fear of the 1950s and 1960s
    - Worldwide Effects of a Nuclear War (by U.S. Arms Control and Disarmament Agency, 1975)
  - MAD (Mutually Assured Destruction)
- Nuclear Policies
- Detente
  - Detente
  - Nixon and Detente
- Intelligence/Espionage
- Literature of the Cold War
  - Cold War Correspondents: Ginsberg, Kerouac, Cassady, and the Political Economy of Beat Letters
- NATO/Warsaw Pact
- Space Race
  - The Space Race (An Exhibition at the Smithsonian Air and Space Museum)
  - From the Earth to the Moon (An Exhibition at the Newseum)
  - American Space History
  - Soviet Space History
    - History of the Russian and Soviet Space Programs
    - Russian Space Web (general history of Soviet space program)
    - Sputnik
      
      Sputnik's Change on America
      
      Sputnik and the Space Race [Documents from the Eisenhower Library]
      
      Sputnik--Articles reprinted from the N.Y. Times
      
      Sputnik and the Dawn of the Space Age (from NASA)
      
      New York Times on AOL: Sputnik 1958 and Space Race Begins
    - Baikonur Cosmodrome
      
      Inside Baikonur
      
      The Nedelin Catastrophe October 24, 1960
    - Vostok and Voskhod
    - Soyuz
    - Salyut Space Station
    - CIA Analysis of Soviet Space Program, March 1967
  - "A Giant Leap for Mankind" (from the archives of Life Magazine)
  - Moon Race Chronology
  - Strategic Defense Initiative (Star Wars)
    - Columbia Encyclopedia: Strategic Defense Initiative
    - Strategic Defense Initiative
    - Announcement of SDI by Pres. Ronald Reagan
    - Wikipedia "Strategic Defense Initiative"
    - U.S. Patent 3,427,611 for Laser System (1969) by Norman H. Enenstein
    - Missile Wars, PBS Frontline Program
    - The Militarization of Science and Space by Noam Chomsky.
  - Atmosphere and Space Treaties
  - CORONA: America's First Satellite Program [a PDF document]
  - U.S. Army in Space
  - U.S. Army Pioneering Efforts in Space
    - Air Defense Command
RETURN TO VL-HISTORY: UNITED STATES INDEX

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WWW-VL: History: USA: 1990-1999

WWW-VL: History: United States: Military History: Korean War

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