Internet Resources

The Harvard Project on Cold War Studies Guide to Cold War Studies Resources Online
Selected English-language Sources for Internet Research on the Cold War

Cold War Chronology of Significant Events
Selected Internet resources from C.N.N.

The Cold War Experience
There are edited transcripts of live Cold War chats conducted  by C.N.N. staff that
correspond with a televised series on the Cold War.

Journal of Cold War Studies
Assorted articles published in this journal which is maintained by the Harvard Project
on Cold War Studies.

The Cold War International History Project
The Cold War International History Project disseminates new information and
perspectives on the history of the Cold War, in particular new findings from previously
inaccessible sources from the former Communist world.

Origins of the Cold War
This is a pdf file.

American Intervention in the Third World:  An Overview
This is a pdf file.

An Introduction to the Cuban Missile Crisis
From the National Security Archive and George Washington University.

Cold War Leftovers
Started in 1998, this project is dedicated to recording the engineering and
technological artifacts left behind by one of the most significant periods in American
history.

What Uncle Sam Really Wants
Contains the text of a Noam Chomsky article on the Cold War.

The Cold War Museum
Includes access to Internet resources on the following topics related to the Cold War:  
government, espionage, Cold War Memorials, and the Cold War in the  Media.

Cold War Event Timeline, 1940 - 2000

A Decade of American Foreign Policy -  Basic Documents 1941-1949
Maintained by the Avalon Project at Yale Law School.

Balkan Politics During the Cold War
This link provides the text of a larger web site, entitled the Twenty-Five Lectures on
Modern Balkan History (The Balkans in the Age of Nationalism).


Cold War Policies, A Chronology From 1945-1991

Cold War International History Project
Features sections on the following events:  The Korean War,  The 1956 Polish and
Hungarian Crises, The Cuban Missile Crisis, The 1980-81 Polish Crisis, The Soviet
Invasion in Afghanistan, and the end of the Cold War.

The United Kingdom National Archives Cold War History web site

Excerpts from William Blum's book, Killing Hope.

Angola 1975-1980s
Brazil 1961-1964
Bulgaria 1990 / Albania 1991
Cambodia 1955-1973
Chile 1964-1973
Congo 1960-1964
Cuba 1959-1980s
Dominican Republic 1960-1966
East Timor 1975
Ecuador 1960-1963
El Salvador 1980-1994
Greece 1964-1974
Grenada 1979-1984
Guatemala 1953-1954
Guatemala 1962-1980s
Haiti 1986-1994
Indonesia 1957-1958
Indonesia 1965
Iran 1953
Iraq 1990-1991
Italy 1947-1948
Laos 1957-1973
Nicaragua 1981-1990
Uruguay 1964-1970
Zaire 1975-1978



American Foreign Policy
and the Cold War

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