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Origins of the Cold War - Cold War Reference Library. Ed. Richard C. Hanes, Sharon M. Hanes, and Lawrence W. Baker. Vol. 1: Almanac Volume 1. Detroit: UXL, 2004.
The Cold War: Prelude in Wartime - American Decades. Ed. Judith S. Baughman, et al. Vol. 5: 1940-1949. Detroit: Gale, 2001.
Conflicts Builds - Cold War Reference Library. Ed. Richard C. Hanes, Sharon M. Hanes, and Lawrence W. Baker. Vol. 1: Almanac Volume 1. Detroit: UXL, 2004.
The Cold War: Postwar Tensions - American Decades. Ed. Judith S. Baughman, et al. Vol. 5: 1940-1949. Detroit: Gale, 2001.
Cold War Beginnings - Cold War Reference Library. Ed. Richard C. Hanes, Sharon M. Hanes, and Lawrence W. Baker. Vol. 5: Primary Sources. Detroit: UXL, 2004. 1-4.
Cold War: an online investigation into the causes of the Cold War from the National Archives.
Cold War Timeline: Origins of the Cold War
The Cold War - Harlan Cleveland's Eyewitness Perspective as to when and why the Cold War started
USA vs USSR Fight! The Cold War - John Green
The Cold War - a unit of study including primary sources from the History Study Center Database
Primary Sources
Primary Sources
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Origins of the Cold War Looking at Primary Documents via the Harry S. Truman Museum
Cold War Origins: This collection of primary source documents discusses international relations during World War II and the years shortly after posted on the Woodrow Wilson Center for Scholars.
Avalon Project - Cold War made available from Yale University
Cold War Documents posted by the American History Project
Primary Sources as part of the The Cold War - unit of study from the History Study Center Database
Guiding Questions for your Research
Guiding Questions for your Research
How did the Treaty of Versailles contribute to rising tension in Europe prior to WWII?
Treaty of Versailles
How did instability contribute to the rise of conflict in Europe?
How did the rise of fascist and totalitarian governments create conflict leading to WWII?
How did Militarism, Alliances, Imperialism, or Nationalism contribute to conflict in Europe?
How did appeasement and inaction lead to WWII?
Books in the ARHS Library
Books in the ARHS Library
The Cold War : opposing viewpoints by William Dudley, book editor
Call Number: 327.73 COL
ISBN: 1565100093
A history and discussion of the Cold War taken from book excerpts, magazine articles, cartoons, and other sources.Cold War : the American crusade against world communism, 1945-1991 by James A. Warren
Call Number: 327.73 WAR
ISBN: 0688105963
Study of the Cold War for young adult readers, answering questions about the origins of the forty-six year stand-off between the United States and the Soviet Union and looking at the effect it has had on U.S. policy at home and abroad.The cold war by Stephen Ashton
Call Number: 909.82 ASH
ISBN: 0713458178
A collection of biographies of 14 individuals who played an important role in history during the cold war.Cold War by Michael Burgan
Call Number: 909.82 BUR
ISBN: 0739818384
A history of the Cold War, exploring the background of the conflict between the United States and the Soviet Union, looking at events in Europe after World War II, and highlighting significant people, treaties, and events on both sides of the hostilities.The cold war by Derek Heater
Call Number: 909.82 HEA
ISBN: 0531182754
Presents a history of the tense, often combative, relations between western capitalist and eastern socialist countries during the period following World War II.The Cold War by Michael G. Kort
Call Number: 909.82 KOR
ISBN: 1562943537
Covers the long ideological conflict between the communist world and the Western democracies from the end of World War II to the collapse of communism in Europe in 1990.The cold war : a history by Martin Walker
Call Number: 909.82 WAL
ISBN: 0805031901
Partial contents: 1945 : Yalta to the bomb -- The cold war goes global--and comes home -- New leaders and lost opportunities -- Spies in the sky : Sputnik to U-2 -- The Cuban missile crisis -- The weary Titan -- Defeat in Asia : hope in Europe -- The death of détente and the change of the western system -- The new cold war -- Taking the enemy away : Gorbachev and the end of the cold war.The Iron Curtain : the Cold War in Europe by Bruce L. Brager ; foreword by George J. Mitchell ; introduction by James I. Matray
Call Number: 940.55 BRA
ISBN: 0791078329
Examines the history of the Iron Curtain, the symbolic boundary between democracy and totalitarianism in Europe as a result of the Cold War that existed between the U.S. and the Soviet Union from the end of World War II until 1989, providing both American and Soviet perspectives.Encyclopedia of cold war politics by Brandon Toropov ; Elin Woodger, special research assistant
Call Number: 973.92 TOR
ISBN: 0816035741
Contains alphabetically arranged entries that provide information on the events, organizations, institutions, individuals, groups, ideas, concepts, documents, and publications related to the Cold War.The Cold War, 1945-1991 by Benjamin Frankel
Call Number: REF 327.73 COL
ISBN: 0810389266
Contains biographical information about key individuals on both sides of the Cold War, focusing on their participation in and contribution to the events of the period; and includes a chronology, and a detailed examination of major events, concepts, terms, and themes that dominated the conflict.
Primary Sources
Primary Sources
The Potsdam Agreement
Winston Churchill's Iron Curtain Speech
The Marshall Plan Speech
The Truman Doctrine
Soviet Response to the Truman Doctrine at the United Nations
Joseph R. McCarthy
Joseph R. McCarthy
Joseph R. McCarthy: Excerpt from "Speech on Communists in the U.S. State Department Made Before the Women's Republican Club in Wheeling, West Virginia, February 1950"
House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC)
House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC)
House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC): Excerpt from "One Hundred Things You Should Know About Communism in the U.S.A."
George C. Marshall
George C. Marshall
George C. Marshall: Excerpt from "Remarks by the Honorable George C. Marshall, Secretary of State, at Harvard University on June 5, 1947"
Nikolai V. Novikov
Nikolai V. Novikov
Nikolai V. Novikov: Excerpt from the "Novikov Telegram," September 27, 1946
George F. Kennan
George F. Kennan
George F. Kennan: Excerpt from the "Long Telegram"
Winston Churchill
Winston Churchill
Winston Churchill: Excerpt from the "Iron Curtain Speech" (also known as the "Sinews of Peace speech"), March 5, 1946
Harry S. Truman
Harry S. Truman
Harry S. Truman: Excerpt from "Special Message to the Congress on the Threat to the Freedom of Europe, March 17, 1948"
Marshall Plan
Marshall Plan
Marshall Plan 1947 - Milestone Documents in American History: Exploring the Primary Sources That Shaped America. Ed. Paul Finkelman and Bruce A. Lesh. Vol. 3: 1888-1955. Dallas, TX: Schlager Group, 2008.
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