ProCon
Is Homework Beneficial?
Does homework improve student achievement, or does it increase stress? Scholars use the included debate topics website to prepare for a class discussion or debate about whether homework is advantageous. After reading a brief background...
Curated OER
"Buff at 50
Students study airforce aircraft. In this investigative lesson students discuss an article they read and divide into groups and design three different combat or peacekeeping situations.
History of American Wars
History of American Wars: Cold War Timeline: 1945 1991
An extensive timeline examining the causes and events of the Cold War. It is preceded by several paragraphs discussing the shifting relations between the United States and Russia in the lead-up to the Cold War. The timeline begins in...
John F. Kennedy Presidential Library & Museum
Jfk Presidential Library and Museum: The Cold War
This site discusses the United States' struggle to halt the spread of Communism at the height of the Cold War.
CommonLit
Common Lit: Text Sets: The Cold War
This is a collection of 16 Grade-Leveled texts (6-12) on the topic The Cold War. After America and the Soviet Union fought as allies in World War II, a new "cold" war emerged between the two superpowers characterized not by direct...
Mount Holyoke College
Mount Holyoke College: Early Cold War Era u.s. Foreign Policy
In his article entitled "Economic Interests, Party, and Ideology in Early Cold War Era U.S. Foreign Policy", Benjamin O. Fordham discusses the United States' foreign policy during the Cold War, focusing on the country's ideology, party...
Columbia University
Columbia University: Structural Realism After the Cold War [Pdf]
In his article "Structural Realism after the Cold War", Kenneth N. Waltz examines the growth of liberal democracies following World War II and the Cold War and this growth's effects on nation-building in the twentieth century. (37 pages)
Flow of History
Flow of History: The Height of the Cold War (1957 72)
The events surrounding the Cold War at its very height are the focus. Text plus a colored graphic flowchart make the topic visually appealing and of interest to both students and educators.
Other
Facts About Germany: The Cold War
German authors provide an article about the Soviet Union's influence in Germany during the Cold War.
History of American Wars
History of American Wars: Cold War History: Kennedy and Johnson 1961 1969
Describes the events of the Cold War during the presidencies of John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson.
History of American Wars
History of American Wars: Cold War History: Ronald Reagan and George h.w. Bush
Describes the events of the Cold War during the presidencies of Ronald Reagan and George H.W. Bush.
History of American Wars
History of American Wars: Cold War History: Nixon, Ford, and Carter
Describes the events of the Cold War during the presidencies of Richard Nixon, Gerald Ford, and Jimmy Carter.
The History Cat
The History Cat: Cold War Germany
Describes what happened to Germany at the end of World War II and the start of the Cold War, how it was divided into East and West Germany with the construction of the Berlin Wall. Western countries worked to rehabilitate their half of...
Digital History
Digital History: The Cold War in Developing Countries
In Europe, there was less violence in the half century following World War II then in almost any previous period of modern European history. Yet outside of Europe and North America, violent conflict became commonplace. In the decades...
The Cold War Museum
The Cold War Museum: Fall of the Soviet Union
The Cold War Museum offers many resources on the Cold War, including this particular article on the "Fall of the Soviet Union."
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.
Smithsonian Institution
National Museum of American History: Fast Attacks and Boomers: Cold War
This Cold War timeline highlights events that dominated international affairs from 1945 to 1991.
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.
Other
Nuclearfiles.org: 20 Mishaps and Possible Nuclear War
Read summaries of 20 accidents that moved the United States and USSR dangerously close to "mutually assured destruction" and nuclear war during the Cold War. A chilling reminder of the constant threat faced by all during that period of...
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Start of Cold War, Part 1: Yalta Conference and Containment
At the end of World War II, the Yalta Conference saw the splitting of Germany into four zones and the United States began a policy of containment of communism.
The History Cat
The History Cat: World History: World War Ii
Learn about World War II history. Topics include Germany under the Nazis, appeasing Hitler, the Blitzkrieg, the bombing of London, and Berlin during the Cold War.
Marxists Internet Archive
Marxists Internet Archive: Cold War
A general overview of the Cold War with a unique, pro-Marxist perspective. The article claims that the Cold War was begun by the United States and resulted in their disillusionment with the anti-communist stance.
Library of Congress
Loc: Cold War Estrangement
This site from the Library of Congress discusses the progress of World War II, and the nature of the postwar settlement at conferences in Tehran, Yalta, and Potsdam.
Digital History
Digital History: The Dealth of Stalin and the Cold War
In March 1953, Joseph Stalin, who had ruled the Soviet Union since 1928, died at the age of 73. His feared minister of internal affairs, Lavrenti Pavlovich Beria, was subsequently shot for treason. Nikita Khrushchev then became first...