Web Links

Lyndon B. Johnson
Comprehensive biography of Lyndon B. Johnson (http://www.americanpresident.org/KoTrain/Courses/LBJ/LBJ_In_Brief.htm) Links to a variety of topics, including campaigns, foreign and domestic policies, and personal life, among others.



Official Presidential library for Lyndon B. Johnson. (http://www.lbjlib.utexas.edu/)



Audio archives of President Johnson's White House conversations, press releases, and spee... (http://www.c-span.org/lbj/) Search the database or browse by category.



U.S. Department of State documents during the Johnson Administration (http://www.state.gov/www/about_state/history/frusjohn.html) Categorized under topics such as Western Europe Region, Germany and Berlin, Eastern Europe, Arab-Israeli Dispute (1964-67), Iran, Africa, South Asia, China, etc.



Time Magazine's Man of the Year article on President Johnson, 1964. (http://www.time.com/time/poy2001/archive/1964.html)



Time Magazine's Man of the Year article on President Johnson, 1967. (http://www.time.com/time/poy2001/archive/1967.html)

Robert McNamara
Biography of Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara (http://www.defenselink.mil/specials/secdef_histories/bios/mcnamara.htm)

Dean Rusk
Interviews with President Kennedy and Johnson's Secretary of State, Dean Rusk. (http://www.lbjlib.utexas.edu/johnson/archives.hom/oralhistory.hom/rusk/rusk.asp)

Cuban Missile Crisis
Extensive treatment of the Cuban Missile Crisis (http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/nsa/cuba_mis_cri/) Includes documents, photographs, analysis, chronology, and related links.



Extensive coverage of the Cuban Missile Crisis (http://library.thinkquest.org/11046/days/index.html) With maps, documents, photographs, analysis, etc.



Extensive collection of documents, articles, essays, and links pertaining to the Cuban Mi... (http://www.mtholyoke.edu/acad/intrel/cuba.htm) Includs background documents beginning in 1940.



U.S. Department of State documents (443) from the Kennedy Administration pertaining to Cu... (http://www.state.gov/www/about_state/history/frusX/index.html)



U.S. Department of State documents (390) from the Kennedy Administration pertaining to th... (http://www.state.gov/www/about_state/history/frusXI/index.html)



U.S. Department of State documents on the exchanges between President Kennedy and Chairma... (http://www.state.gov/www/about_state/history/volume_vi/exchanges.html) The exchanges begin in 1960 and continue through the Cuban Missile Crisis.



Extensive list of documents and list of relevant persons. (http://www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/diplomacy/forrel/cuba/cubamenu.htm)



U.S. Navy's day-by-day account of its involvement in the Cuban Missile Crisis and blockad... (http://www.history.navy.mil/faqs/faq90-5.htm)



Detailed timeline of the Cuban Missile Crisis with accompanying audio recordings of ExCom... (http://www.hpol.org/jfk/cuban/)



Nikita Khrushchev's speech on the Cuba blockade, given to the RFSR Teacher's Congress, 19... (http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/1960khrushchev-cuba1.html)



John F. Kennedy's speech on the lessons of Cuba, 1961. (http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/1961-kennedy-cuba1.html)



Text of the Cuban Missile Crisis debate before the United Nations Security Council, betwe... (http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/1962-cuba-un1.html) .



Video and audio of the Cuban Missile Crisis debate before the United Nations Security Cou... (http://www.earthstation1.com/Adlai_Stevenson.html)



President Kennedy's address on the Cuban Missile Crisis, 1962. (http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/1962kennedy-cuba.html)



U.S. Department of State documents (390) during the Kennedy Administration pertaining to ... (http://www.state.gov/www/about_state/history/vol_v/index.html)



Primary document of U.S. estimates of Soviet missile capabilities, 1965. (http://www.odci.gov/csi/books/princeton/nie11_3_65.pdf)

Northeast Asia
U.S. Department of State documents (385) during the Kennedy Administration pertaining to ... (http://www.state.gov/www/about_state/history/frusXXII/index.html)



Comprehensive survey of the China-India war of 1962. (http://solareclipse.net/fmmp/wars/1962War/main.html)

Vietnam War
Examines the Vietnam War and its development, from 1954-68. (http://www.cnn.com/SPECIALS/cold.war/episodes/11/) Includes interactive map and multimedia section as well as interview transcripts, documents, biographies, a timeline, and historical features.



Extensive collection of documents, articles, essays, and links pertaining to the Vietnam ... (http://www.mtholyoke.edu/acad/intrel/vietnam.htm) Beginning with articles concerning foreign occupation of Vietnam in 1886 and culminating with articles written in 2000.



Portal to a variety of information about the Vietnam War. (http://www.vietnamwar.net/) Also includes literary accounts of the War.



Extensive site about the Vietnam War (http://www.vwip.org/vwiphome.html) Includes resources, images, articles, documents, links to military unit homepages, and personal memoirs and accounts.



PBS site on the Vietnam War (http://www.pbs.org/battlefieldvietnam/history/) Includes a history, timeline, descriptions of guerilla warfare and tactics, and details of military aircraft used. The site also includes an extensive multimedia account of Khe Sanh.



Enormous collection of documents and topics. (http://www.vva.org/about_the_war.htm) The site includes sections of detailed histories of battles, weapons, regions, etc. with documents and pictures, as well as sections devoted to the War in film and entertainment, and the War in the Supreme Court.



Interactive "Who's Who" (http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/vietnam/intro.html) Identifies the important figures in North Vietnam, South Vietnam, Cambodia and the United States, a timeline of events from 1945 to the present, personal reflections on the war, and video clips from the original television series that the site is based upon.



Includes video and text interviews with significant writers, journalists, government advi... (http://globetrotter.berkeley.edu/PubEd/research/vietnam.html)



Descriptions, photographs, and specifications for the aircraft used in the Korean and Vie... (http://www.wpafb.af.mil/museum/air_power/kc.htm)



Air Force's year by year history of the Vietnam War, with descriptions of military campai... (http://www.wpafb.af.mil/museum/history/vietnam/vietnam.htm)



1961 U.S. Department of State documents (343) from the Kennedy Administration pertaining ... (http://www.state.gov/www/about_state/history/intel/index.html) Categorized chronologically according to events.



1962 U.S. Department of State documents (334) from the Kennedy Administration (http://www.state.gov/www/about_state/history/vol_ii_1961-63/index.html) Pertains to US involvement in Vietnam.



1964 U.S. Department of State documents from the Johnson Administration (http://www.state.gov/www/about_state/history/vol_i/index.html) Pertains to U.S. involvement in Vietnam.



January-June 1965 U.S. Department of State documents from the Johnson Administration (http://www.state.gov/www/about_state/history/vol_ii/index.html) Pertains to U.S. involvement in Vietnam.



June-December 1965 U.S. Department of State documents from the Johnson Administration per... (http://www.state.gov/www/about_state/history/vol_iii/index.html) Categorized chronologically according to events.



1966 US Department of State documents from the Johnson Administration pertaining to U.S. ... (http://www.state.gov/www/about_state/history/vol_iv/index.html) Categorized chronologically according to events.



Statistical breakdown of casualties based on a variety of variables. (http://members.aol.com/warlibrary/vwc0.htm)



Maps from the Vietnam War, complete with military markings. (http://grunt.space.swri.edu/maps.htm)



History of the Battle of Ap Bac, 1963, including map. (http://www.mrfa2.org/ApBac.htm)



Wide variety of documents, photographs, accounts, essays, etc. relating to the Gulf of To... (http://members.aol.com/warlibrary/vwton.htm)



Declassified documents relating to the battles at Khe Sanh. (http://members.easyspace.com/airdrop/index.html)



Covers wide variety of elements relating to the Tet Offensive (http://members.aol.com/veterans/warlib65.htm) Includes badges, photographs, songs, and radio call signs, among others.



Photographic essay by Time/Life of the My Lai massacre. (http://free.freespeech.org/americanstateterrorism/vietnamgenocide/Mylai.html)



Chronicles the My Lai courts-martial (http://www.law.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/mylai/mylai.htm) Includes photographs, personal accounts, testimony and court transcripts, and military chain of command.



Nixon announces invasion of Cambodia. (http://chnm.gmu.edu/hardhats/cambodia.html)



Excerpt from William Shawcross' Sideshow: Kissinger, Nixon, and the Destruction of Cambod... (http://www.thirdworldtraveler.com/Kissinger/Bombardiers_Sideshow.html)



History of Operation Linebacker I (http://www.fas.org/man/dod-101/ops/linebacker-1.htm) Includes links to various related sites.



History of Operation Linebacker II (http://www.fas.org/man/dod-101/ops/linebacker-2.htm) Includes links to various related sites.



Timeline of events related to Nixon and Vietnamization, 1969-75 (http://history.acusd.edu/gen/20th/RN/page002.html) Includes photographs, maps, and political cartoons.



Transcript of former Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara's talk at Harvard University in... (http://www.ksg.harvard.edu/ifactory/ksgpress/www/ksg_news/transcripts/mcnamara.htm) The talk stems from McNamara's book In Retrospect: The Tragedy and Lessons from Vietnam, and concerns the U.S. involvement in that war.

Africa and the Cold War
Examines the Cold War battlefields of Africa and the Middle East from 1967-78. (http://www.cnn.com/SPECIALS/cold.war/episodes/17/) Includes interactive map and multimedia section as well as interview transcripts, documents, biographies, a timeline, and historical features.



Department of State documents relating to Africa, dated between 1964 and 1968. (http://www.state.gov/www/about_state/history/vol_xxiv/index.html) Categorized by country and/or region.

Patrice Lumumba
Page chronicling Congolese leader Patrice Lumumba's political life. (http://www.sci.pfu.edu.ru/~asemenov/lumumba/LUMUMBA.HTM) Includes speeches, poems, and letters by Lumumba, as well as a chronology and photographs.

Dominican Republic
U.S. Navy history of its involvement in the Dominican Crisis, 1965. (http://www.history.navy.mil/wars/domrep2.htm?page=test)

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