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. 

This site discusses the United States' struggle to halt the spread of Communism at the height of 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...

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.

German authors provide an article about the Soviet Union's influence in Germany during the Cold War.

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)

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...

The Cold War Museum offers many resources on the Cold War, including this particular article on the "Fall of the Soviet Union."

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...

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...

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...

Describes the events of the Cold War during the presidencies of John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson.

Describes the events of the Cold War during the presidencies of Ronald Reagan and George H.W. Bush.

Describes the events of the Cold War during the presidencies of Richard Nixon, Gerald Ford, and Jimmy Carter.

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...

This article discusses Stalin's plans for Russia following World War II and examines how his decisions helped bring about the Cold War.

This brief Library of Congress site has info on the Russian's role in the Cuban Missile Crisis.

This article details the occupation of Latvia by the Soviet Union following World War II and during the Cold War.

This article discusses the Soviet Republic that existed in Lithuania during the Cold War.

This article discusses the Soviet Union's influence in Poland following World War II and during the Cold 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...

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.

Part of a cnn.com in-depth special "The Reagan Years", this site provides you with brief explanations of the US in 1980, the 1980 presidential election and assorted topics of Reagan's presidency including the assassination attempt, the...

This Cold War timeline highlights events that dominated international affairs from 1945 to 1991.