Internet resources for the Cold War

Introduction

• Map of the Cold War 1980 (Wikipedia)

The Origins of the Cold War

• Churchill, Stalin and Roosevelt meet in Yalta (Youtube.com)
• Churchill's speech at Fulton, Missouri of March 1946 (Youtube.com)
• Iron Curtain map (Wikipedia)

Containment

• The Marshall Plan (56 mins) (Google Video)
• US President Harry Truman issues "The Truman Doctrine" (Youtube.com)
• The Berlin Airlift British Newsreel 1948 (Youtube.com)

The Cuban Missile Crisis

• Cuban Missile Crisis (Google Video)
• The Cuban Crisis, 1962/10/25 (1962) US Newsreel ( Youtube.com)
• Kennedy addresses the nation on the Cuban Missile Crisis  ( Youtube.com)

Developments in Eastern and Western Europe

• Death of Stalin1953 (Myspacetv.com)
• Hungary, 1956 (in Hungarian) (Youtube.com)
• 1956 - Hungarian Revolution (Youtube.com)
• Freedom Road. Hungarian Patriots & Suez Canal Crisis (1956) US Newsreel (Youtube.com)
• Suez Canal Seized By Egyptians, 1956/07/30 (1956) US Newsreel (Youtube.com)
• Israel - The Suez War of 1956 (Youtube.com)
• War in Egypt. British and French Bombing 1956/11/01 (1956) & Hungary Free US Newsreel (Youtube.com)
• Map of the Suez Canal (Encarta)
• Khrushchev Resigns, 1964/10/15 (1964) (Youtube.com)

The Fall of the Soviet Empire

• Fall of the Berlin Wall (Youtube.com Interesting -however of poor quality)
• Pizza Hut - Gorbachev (Youtube.com)

Historiography

• Cold War (Wikipedia) 
• Who was to blame for the Cold War? (Greenfield History site)
• Richard Crockatt, The United States and the Cold War 1941-53 British Association for American Studies

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