American war library. The Cold War

Uses several primary documents to illustrate the political atmosphere in the United States throughout the Cold War.

Discusses the Cold War, its origins and the resulting conflicts, including the arms race, the Korean War, the Cuban missile crisis, and the Vietnam War.

Discusses the political climate, leaders, and ideology that led to the Cold War.

Examines how the Cold War period in America, lasting roughly fifty years following World War II, was a contradictory time of prosperity and optimism coupled with concerns over Soviet espionage infiltrating American institutions and fear of nuclear apocalypse.

Discusses the agents, communications, technological advances, covert actions, and double agents during the Cold War.

Describes the U.S.'s political and military attempts to prevent the spread of Communism throughout the world in the latter half of the twentieth century, discussing Germany, Korea, Egypt, Cuba, Vietnam, Angola, and Nicaragua.

Discusses the development of nuclear weapons, the race for nuclear supremacy, deployment of these weapons during the Cold War, and disarmament.

Discusses the rivalry between the United States and the Soviet Union that led to the Cold War, the actions of political leaders, the U.S.-Soviet summits on arms reduction, the revolutions in Eastern Europe against Soviet domination that led to the end of the Cold War, and the new, friendlier relationship between Russia and the United States.