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Ducksters: The Cold War for Kids: Bay of Pigs
Kids learn about the history of the Bay of Pigs in Cuba during the Cold War. A CIA led attempt to take over Fidel Castro's government.
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Ducksters: The Cold War for Kids: Berlin Wall
Kids learn about the history of the Berlin Wall during the Cold War. This wall kept people from freely leaving East Berlin.
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Ducksters: The Cold War for Kids: Communism
Kids learn about the history of Communism and the Cold War. Karl Marx, Lenin, and Mao were world leaders over communist countries.
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Ducksters: The Cold War for Kids: Arms Race
Kids learn about the history of the Arms Race during the Cold War. The United States and the Soviet Union building nuclear weapons stockpiles.
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Ducksters: The Cold War for Kids: Berlin Airlift
Kids learn about the history of the Berlin Airlift during the Cold War. Planes were used to get around the Soviet blockade of Berlin.
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Ducksters: The Cold War for Kids: Cuban Missile Crisis
Kids learn about the history of Cuban Missile Crisis and the Cold War. The Soviet Union put nuclear missiles on the island of Cuba.
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Ducksters: The Cold War for Kids: Red Scare
Kids learn the history of the Red Scare during the Cold War. A fear of communism caused black lists and accusations led by Senator Joseph McCarthy.
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Ducksters: The Cold War for Kids: Suez Crisis
Kids learn the history of the Suez Crisis during the Cold War. A fight over control of the Suez Canal involving Egypt, Israel, Britain, and France.
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Ducksters: The Cold War for Kids: Vietnam War
Kids learn the history of the Vietnam War during the Cold War. A fight between the communists of North Vietnam and the US supported South.
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Ducksters: The Cold War for Kids: Space Race
Kids learn the history of the Space Race during the Cold War. A race between the United States and the Soviet Union to put a man on the Moon.
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Ducksters: The Cold War for Kids: Collapse of the Soviet Union
Kids learn about the history of the Collapse of the Soviet Union which put an end to the Cold War.
Louisiana Department of Education
Louisiana Doe: Louisiana Believes: Us History: Cold War
Students develop and express claims through discussions and writing which examine actions and interactions during the Regan administration and their impact on the Cold War.
University of Groningen
American History: Outlines: Nixon, Vietnam, and the Cold War
Outline of later Vietnam War struggles during the Nixon era and U.S. relations with Communist countries.
A&E Television
History.com: What Caused the Korean War and Why Did the Us Get Involved?
The Korean War (1950-1953) was the first military action of the Cold War. It was sparked by the June 25, 1950 invasion of South Korea by 75,000 members of the North Korean People's Army. The line they crossed, the 38th parallel, was...
National Archives (UK)
Nalc: Cold War
The tension between Great Britain, United States, and the Soviet Union at end of World War II is surveyed with an excellent presentation with many links and images, a time line, glossary, and archive.
American Chemical Society
The Pharmaceutical Century: The 1950s
This extensive review of the advances in medical research and technology in the 1950s credits the Cold War and Cold War thinking with promoting scientific research and government funding of that research, including medical issues. Find...
Smithsonian Institution
Smithsonian: Dividing the Spoils
Historian Michael Beschloss discusses Harry S. Truman's role in the Potsdam Conference and examines how his decisions there paved the way for the Cold War. (December 2002)
BBC
Bbc: Nato's Cold War Roots
A fantastic history of NATO. From its inception after WWII to its call to action during the Kosovo crisis, the BBC does a great job of giving readers a well-rounded look at the institution. Includes a map with all member countries as...
Country Studies US
Country Studies: Russia Reconstruction and Cold War
This article discusses Stalin's plans for Russia following World War II and examines how his decisions helped bring about the Cold War.
Scholastic
Scholastic News: Cold War
This site takes a look at the events and causes that led up to the Cold War as well as one of the key events of the war: the Soviets gaining nuclear power in 1949. The article also details that events that followed the Soviets' discovery...
Library of Congress
Loc: Cold War: Cuban Missile Crisis
This brief Library of Congress site has info on the Russian's role in the Cuban Missile Crisis.
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Huac and Hollywood
This video and support materials detail the Hollywood blacklist and House Un-American Activities Committee, chronicling the fear of Communism and resulting blacklist based on political ideology. The video is from the American Masters...
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,...
Country Studies US
Country Studies: Latvia the Soviet Period
This article details the occupation of Latvia by the Soviet Union following World War II and during the Cold War.
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