Cold War (SS5H5)

Burial of Cpl. Thomas R. Jarrard, Hall County Georgia Historical Photograph Collection (Hall County Library System)

SS5H5 Discuss the origins and consequences of the Cold War.

1. Explain the origin and meaning of the term “Iron Curtain.”

2. Explain how the United States sought to stop the spread of communism through the Berlin airlift, the Korean War, and the North Atlantic Treaty Organization.

3. Identify Joseph McCarthy and Nikita Khrushchev.

4. Discuss the importance of the Cuban Missile Crisis and the Vietnam War.

Suggested Collections

• Atlanta Chamber of Commerce Photographs (Atlanta History Center)

• Baldy Editorial Cartoons, 1946-1982, 1997: Clifford H. Baldowski Editorial Cartoons at the Richard B. Russell Library (Richard B. Russell Library for Political Research and Studies)

• Georgia’s Political Heritage Program (University of West Georgia)

• Korean Conflict (Berrien County Georgia Historical Photos Collection)

• Leona Hudson Collectio  (Valdosta State University)

• M. H. Ross Papers (Georgia State University)

• Oral History: Veterans History Project (Atlanta History Center)

• Tom Coffin Photographs (Georgia State University. Special Collections)

• WSB-TV Newsfilm Collection (1948-1981) (Walter J. Brown Media Archives and Peabody Awards Collection)

Suggested Searches (DLG)

• Cold War

• Soviet Union--Foreign relations--United States

• Winston Churchill

• "Communism"

• Berlin (Germany)--History--Blockade, 1948-1949

• Korean War

• North Atlantic Treaty Organization

• Joseph McCarthy

• Nikita Khrushchev

• Cuban Missile Crisis, 1962

• Vietnam War, 1961-1975

• Vietnam War, 1961-1975, Peace movements

• Vietnam War, 1961-1975, Demonstrations--Georgia--Atlanta

• Cuba

• Soviet Union

• Iron Curtain

Suggested Searches (DPLA)

• Cold War

• Cold War--Influence  

• Cold War, Government and Law

• World politics--1945-1989

• United States--Foreign relations--Soviet Union 

• Churchill, Winston, Sir, 1874-1965

• Communist countries 

• Communism, 1945 to 1990

• Berlin (Germany)--History--Blockade, 1948-1949

• Korean War, 1950-1953

• North Atlantic Treaty Organization

• Joseph McCarthy

• Nikita Khrushchev

• Cuban Missile Crisis, 1962

• Vietnam War, 1961-1975

• Vietnam War, 1961-1975, Demonstrations

• Vietnam War, 1961-1975, Protest movements

• Cuba, 1945 to 1990

• Soviet Union

• Berlin Wall, Berlin, Germany, 1961-1989

• Bay of Pigs Invasion, Cuba, 1961

• Cuban Refugee Program

• Mao Zedong

• Chinese Civil War (1945-1949)

• Iron Curtain

Historic Georgia Newspapers

• Cold War (1945-1990)

• Cuban Missile Crisis

• Dwight D. Eisenhower

• John F. Kennedy

• Lyndon Baines Johnson

• Newspapers, 1945 to 2017

• Nikita Khrushchev

• Richard M. Nixon

• Vietnam War

Chronicling America Newspapers

• Chinese Civil War

• Cold War

• Cuban Missile Crisis

• Newspapers, 1945 to 1963

• Nikita Khrushchev

• Vietnam War

Suggested DPLA Primary Resource Sets and Exhibits

• Activism in the US: Anti-War Activism

• The Atomic Bomb and the Nuclear Age

• Cuban Immigration After the Revolution, 1959-1973

• The Impact of Television on News Media

• Race to the Moon

• Space Race

NGE Articles

• Communists

• Dean Rusk (1909-1994)

• Lucius D. Clay (1897-1978)

• Vietnam War Protest

Georgia Public Broadcasting Resources

• Aerial Photograph of Missiles in Cuba (1962) and Resource Materials

• American Experience: JFK

• Earth Days: The Presidency and the Environment

• Katherine Johnson | NASA Computer

• Khrushchev's Roadshow

• Last Days in Vietnam: American Experience

• Nuclear Blast Damage

• Nuclear Blast Footage

• Race to the Moon (American Experience)

• Rise of Communism: The Story of China

• The Legacy of Cuba’s Fidel Castro | PBS NewsHour

• War and Space | Central Florida Roadtrip

Georgia Historical Society Resources

• Twentieth Century Global Conflict

• Twentieth Century Technological Advances

Posters and Postcards

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• SS5H5 postcard