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Cbc.ca: Comfort and Fear Cold War Canada
Following the end of WW11, relations between the Soviet Union and the USA turned hostile and negative. Canada quickly became involved in the Cold War. An overview of this period of spying, propaganda, communist paranoia, and even...
Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars
Woodrow Wilson Center: Digital Archive: Cold War Origins
This collection of primary source documents discusses international relations during World War II and the years shortly after. It begins with the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact signed in 1939 and ends with documents from the 1950's. The...
University of Groningen
American History: Outlines: End to the Cold War
Brief overview of G. W. Bush administration policy and the collapse of the Soviet Union effectively ending the Cold War.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Us History: Period 9: 1980 Present: The End of the Cold War
Take a quick comprehension check over the end of the Cold War.
University of Groningen
American History: Outlines: American History: End to the Cold War
Read this concise depiction highlighting the events leading to the end of the Cold War.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Us History: 1945 1980: Start of the Cold War the Yalta Conference
Learn how the end of World War II contributed to the rise of the Cold War.
Other
Cold War and New Zealand
Describes New Zealand during the Cold War. Looks at New Zealand's political landscape during WWI, WWII, its military interventions, its membership in SEATO, and its antinuclear stance.
National Archives (UK)
National Archives Learning Curve: Cold War
Discusses different aspects of the Cold War such as "Did the Cold War really start in 1919-1939?" and "Was the Vietnam War a turning point in the Cold War?"
The Cold War Museum
The Cold War Museum
Choose a decade of the Cold War to explore on the time line or take a look at the online exhibits. This site has great information about the Cold War.
Rock and Roll Hall of Fame
Rock & Roll Hall of Fame: Sti Lesson 35: The Melting of the Cold War
As the Cold War evolved over four decades, the end of the world seemed imminent as the nuclear arms race continued to escalate. Popular music, especially in the 1980s, reflected this growing pessimism. By 1989 and 1990, as the Berlin...
Digital History
Digital History: From Wartime Allies to Cold War Enemies [Pdf]
This timeline traces the devolution of the relationship between the United States and Soviet Union from the end of World War II, where these two countries were allies, albeit suspicious of each other, and almost a year after the end of...
Independence Hall Association
U.s. History: The End of the Cold War
Read about the surprising and swift collapse of the Soviet Union and its satellite countries beginning with Poland in 1989. Watch a map which shows the change from a single country, USSR, into many independent countries, and find out...
Independence Hall Association
U.s. History: The Cold War Erupts
World War II ended in 1945 and the Cold War began immediately. Read about the mistrust Western Europe and the United States felt towards the Soviet Union and Joseph Stalin. Learn how the Soviets expanded their realm of influence and...
Other
Turmoil and Triumph: The George Shultz Years: Cold War Timeline
End-of-the-Cold-War timeline, which enumerates events that led up to the collapse of the Soviet empire during the Reagan administration, is both an account of the period and a retrospective of Reagan's policies vis-a-vis the Soviets,...
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Ks3 History Cold War
[Free Registration/Login Required] A flipchart presenting twenty questions about specific facts relating to the cold war from 1945 to the end of the century.
US National Archives
Docs Teach: President Reagan and the Cold War: Vision and Diplomacy
See how Ronald Reagan's rhetoric evolved from his speech calling the Soviet Union an "evil empire" to his signing of the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty by examining photographs and documents.
Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars
Woodrow Wilson Center: Digital Archive: End of the Cold War
This is a collection of primary source documents covering the collapse of the Soviet Union during the late 1980's. The collection contains documents from archives in most of the former Soviet bloc countries. They discuss the changes...
Other
Ithaca College: Project Look Sharp: Soviet History Through Posters
[Free Registration/Login Required] Multi-unit curriculum kit on the history of the Soviet Union told in five episodes using Soviet posters as source material. Coverage includes the birth of the Soviet Union, Stalin, the Great Patriotic...
Independence Hall Association
U.s. History: Northern Plans to End the War
By 1863 Northern military strategists developed a five-pronged plan to end the war. Read about how these goals were accomplished and at what great cost to both the Union and Confederate soldiers and civilians.
Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars
Woodrow Wilson Center: Digital Archive: Inter Korean Relations After the War
This collection presents documents on inter-Korean relations from the end of the Korean War through the Park Chung Hee military coup.
Smithsonian Institution
National Portrait Gallery: The Presidency and the Cold War: George H. W. Bush
The National Portrait Gallery presents a look at the several presidents and their actions in regard to the Cold War. Click on George Bush to see and hear his speech about the dissolution of the Soviet Union. The Cold War ends.
Smithsonian Institution
National Portrait Gallery: The Presidency and the Cold War: Ronald Reagan
The National Portrait Gallery presents a look at presidential actions and decisions about the Cold War. Click on Ronald Reagan to see how his anti-Communist beliefs led to increases in the defense budget, but also, by the end of his...
BBC
Bbc: Red Army Enters Outskirts of Berlin
Find out how the Red Army's arrival in Berlin affected the Cold War.
Google Cultural Institute
Google Cultural Institute: Years of Change
A visual chronology of the fall of the Berlin Wall, the end of the Cold War, in East Germany from diary excerpts, historical snippets, and photographs. The German Reunification period ran from 1989-1991.