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Cold War LRC@TCC
Scope: Sources for finding
information on the Cold War.
Call number areas to
browse: E183-183.9
D839-860
JX2001-6650
UA926-929
Keywords to search: Soviet Union, Cuba, civil
defense, cold war, iron
curtain, national security,
names of political leaders,
foreign relations, conflict,
diplomacy, international
law, arms race, Cuban
Missile Crisis, NATO,
NORAD, Nuclear
Nonproliferation Treaty,
Radio Free Europe, SALT,
Warsaw Pact, Marshall
Plan, Berlin Wall, Berlin
Airlift, Bay of Pigs, atomic
and hydrogen bombs,
Strategic Defense Initiative
(Star Wars)
Subjects to search (Library of Congress):
Cold War.
World politics--1945-
United States--Foreign
relations--Soviet Union.
Soviet Union--Foreign
relations--United States.
United States--Foreign
relations--1989-1993
Soviet Union--Foreign
relations--1985-1991
Cuba--Foreign
relations--Africa.
Cuba--Foreign
relations--1959-
Civil defense--United
States.
National security--United
States
Books in our catalog:
Gale Virtual Reference Library (r)
America, Russia, and the Cold War, 1945-1971. (E183.8.R9 L26 1972)
The Cold War: Ideological Conflict or Power Struggle? (D843 .G7)
The Columbia Guide to the Cold War (E744 .K696 1998)
The Fifty-year War : Conflict and Strategy in the Cold War (D842 .F75 2000)
Neither dead nor Red : Civilian Defense and American Political Development
During the Early Cold War. (UA927 .G76 2001)
Shattered Peace : The Origins of the Cold War and the National Security State.
(D843
.Y47)
The Cold War: Retrospect and Prospect (DK69 .S3)
Resolving Third World Conflict : Challenges for a New Era (JX4473 .R47 1992)
Library Resources (r):
America:
History and Life
Historical
Abstracts
OmniFile
Full Text Select
Internet Resources:
CNN:
Cold War - In-depth information on subjects such as the Iron Curtain,
Marshall Plan, Korean War, Sputnik, Cuba, Vietnam, China, and the Soviet
invasion of Afghanistan. Cold War Experience examines Culture, Technology,
Espionage, and The Bomb, with articles, images, streaming video, maps,
timelines, and message boards.
Cold
War International History Project (CWIHP) - houses a large collection
of
historical materials and ongoing discussions by governments and people on
all
sides of the Cold War.
Cold
War -US History - Original documents and historic accounts of the Cold
War years from both US and Soviet materials.
Documents
Related to the Cold War - Presents a short list of reference sites
and
supplies a plethora of Cold War documents organized by date.
The
Berlin Airlift - Extensive information about the post-World War
II Berlin airlift
of 1948-1949. Working from original source material from the Harry
S Truman
Presidential Library.
NSA
and the Cuban Missile Crisis - The National Security Agency's
analysis of
the Cuban missile crisis, a conflict that occurred in October 1962
that almost sent the United States and the Soviet Union into nuclear
war.
Includes an
extensive document archive of declassified files associated with
the crisis and a full-length
synopsis of events.
Cold
War Hot Links - Links compiled by David Price of St. Martin's
College with
primary sources, essays, analyses examining the impact
of the Cold War.
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