 |  America, Russia, and the Cold War 1945 - 2002: Updated, 9/e Walter LaFeber,
Cornell University
Open Doors, Iron Curtains (1941-1945)
Web Links
Iron Curtain
| Traces the development of the “Iron Curtain.”
(http://www.cnn.com/SPECIALS/cold.war/episodes/02/)
Includes interactive map and multimedia museum of Soviet weapons at the beginning of the Cold War. Also includes interview transcripts, documents, and more. | | | | Maps, documents, and theories that define the political boundaries of World War II.
(http://www.turnerlearning.com/cnn/coldwar/comrades/com_res.html)
| | | | Interactive map of Europe illustrating the changing dynamic of Europe before, during, and...
(http://www.cnn.com/SPECIALS/cold.war/episodes/01/maps/)
| | | | Interactive map of Europe and the "Iron Curtain,"
(http://www.cnn.com/SPECIALS/cold.war/episodes/02/maps/)
Illustrates the battle lines that were drawn at the end of World War II and the beginning of the Cold War. | | | | Maps, documents, speeches, and charts of the post-war world.
(http://www.turnerlearning.com/cnn/coldwar/iron/iron_res.html)
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President Franklin D. Roosevelt
| Comprehensive biography of President Franklin D. Roosevelt.
(http://www.americanpresident.org/history/franklindelanoroosevelt/biography/)
Includes links to a variety of topics including campaigns, foreign and domestic policies, and personal life, among others. | | | | Franklin Delano Roosevelt Library and Archives.
(http://www.fdrlibrary.marist.edu/)
| | | | Papers, speeches, addresses, etc., of President Franklin D. Roosevelt.
(http://www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/presiden/roospap.htm)
| | | | Time Magazine’s “Man of the Year” article on President Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1932.
(http://www.time.com/time/poy2001/archive/1932.html)
| | | | Time Magazine’s “Man of the Year” article on President Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1934.
(http://www.time.com/time/poy2001/archive/1934.html)
| | | | Time Magazine’s “Man of the Year” article on President Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1941.
(http://www.time.com/time/poy2001/archive/1941.html)
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President Harry S Truman
| Comprehensive biography of President Harry S Truman.
(http://www.americanpresident.org/history/harrytruman/)
Includes links to a variety of topics including campaigns, foreign and domestic policies, and personal life, among others. | | | | Harry S Truman library and research center.
(http://www.trumanlibrary.org/)
Includes primary sources and correspondences with Secretary of War Henry Stimson, among many others. | | | | Papers, speeches, addresses, etc., of President Harry S Truman.
(http://www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/presiden/trumpap.htm)
Includs documents, pictures, speeches, and searchable database. | | | | Time Magazine’s “Man of the Year” article on President Harry S Truman, 1945.
(http://www.time.com/time/poy2001/archive/1945.html)
| | | | Time Magazine’s “Man of the Year” article on President Harry S Truman, 1948.
(http://www.time.com/time/poy2001/archive/1948.html)
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Atomic Bomb
| Extensive site covering several aspects of the bomb
(http://www.nuclearfiles.org/docs/index.html)
The bombs development, use, and evolution from the Manhattan Project to present. Includes documents, treaties, photographs, audio clips, and data. | | | | Twenty-five chapters pertaining to the Manhattan Project
(http://www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/abomb/mpmenu.htm)
The selection of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the destructive power of the bomb, and the aftermath. Includes documents, treaties, photographs, audio clips, and data. | | | | Describes the physics involved in the atomic bomb, the Teller-Ulam device.
(http://people.howstuffworks.com/nuclear-bomb.htm)
Many pictures and diagrams, as well as links to more science-based sites. | | | | Covers Truman Administration's decision to use the atomic bomb and the development of the...
(http://www.trumanlibrary.org/whistlestop/study_collections/bomb/large/bomb.htm)
Includes documents of White House minutes from meetings, the Manhattan Project, the Interim Committee, testing, press releases, President Truman's diary entries, and a chronology. Also includes post-War uses of atomic energy and an online book about President Truman's decision process. | | | | Documents pertaining to the decision to use the atomic bomb.
(http://www.dannen.com/decision/index.html)
Includes documents of White House minutes from meetings, the Manhattan Project, the Interim Committee, testing, press releases, President Truman's diary entries, and a chronology. Also includes post-War uses of atomic energy and an online book about President Truman's decision process. | | | | Vast list of documents pertaining to creation of bomb, the decision to use it, and the af...
(http://www.mtholyoke.edu/acad/intrel/hiroshim.htm)
| | | | Pictures, timeline, and science of the atomic bomb.
(http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Agora/4526/index1.html)
| | | | Documents relating to the atomic bomb.
(http://www.childrenofthemanhattanproject.org/HICC/HICC_DO.htm)
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