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Answered By: Katie Hutchison
Last Updated: Aug 08, 2016 Views: 9183
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Cold War Origins
"This collection of primary source documents discusses international relations during World War II and the years shortly after. It begins with the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact signed in 1939 and ends with documents from the 1950’s. The collection contains a wide variety of documents including agreements, memorandums, meeting minutes, cables, letters, diary entries, and military reports from WWII. The documents mainly come from Russian and Bulgarian archives." (Wilson Center Digital Archives) -
End of the Cold War
"This is a collection of primary source documents covering the collapse of the Soviet Union during the late 1980s. The collection contains documents from archives in most of the former Soviet bloc countries. They discuss the changes occurring in Eastern Europe and the Tiananmen Square events in China." (Wilson Center Digital Archives) -
Joint Committee on Atomic Energy (1946-1977): Source MaterialsFull text of over 144,000 pages of source materials from the hearings of the Joint Committee on Atomic Energy, which existed from 1946 to 1977 to "make continuing studies of the activities of the Atomic Energy Commission (AEC) and of problems relating to the development, use, and control of atomic energy."
(Stanford Univ.) - The Nixon Administration and the Indian Nuclear Program, 1972-1974
Offers a look at the reaction of President Richard Nixon's administration to the testing of nuclear weapons by India. There are 21 documents on this website, including a secret memo entitled "A Concerted Effort by India to Conceal Preparations May Well Succeed" and several key State Department cables. (National Security Archive)
- Nuclear Debate Pamphlets
"Pamphlets from both pro- and anti-nuclear organizations published during the 1980 period of rising tensions and the decline of déténte." (Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars)
- Avalon Project - Cold War Document Collection
This project at Yale Law School contains a wide variety of document collections. This Cold War collection offers users groups of official US government documents through the 1960s. Also, check out the Cold War Diplomacy - Defense Treaties of the U.S., 1941-1954. - Documents Relating to the Cold War
Begin your document search here. This site, maintained by the International Relations Program at Mount Holyoke College, contains a plethora of Cold War diplomatic documents. - Truman Cold War Documents
These critical documents, made available through the Truman Library, show the pivotal moments in the early Cold War. The online archive includes presidential memos, letters, official government documents, and photographs. - Kennedy Administration National Security Documents
The John F. Kennedy Library maintains an online collection of 272 memoranda relating to Kennedy's life and administration. View personal correspondence as well as official government documents relating to national security. - NSC-68
View the once-top-secret National Security Council document of April 1950 that set in motion the massive military buildup of the Cold War. - Student Voices from World War II and the McCarthy Era
This oral history website offers a case study of the impact of World War II and the domestic Cold War on student life at an urban public college campus. It is based on the narratives of Brooklyn College students that participated in Brooklyn College's World War II Farm Labor Project and the experiences of students who were involved in the student newspaper during the McCarthy Era. The site is maintained by The Center for Media and Learning/American Social History Project at the Graduate Center, CUNY. - DOE: Human Radiation Experiments
This website, created in 1994 under the Office of Human Radiation Experiments, tells the agency's Cold War story of radiation research using human subjects with various multi-media souces from declassified government documents, films, soundclips, and photographs. -
Making the History of 1989 - Translated primary documents and secondary sources (including video interviews with scholars of Eastern European Studies and case studies of specific events) explore the 1980s events that culminated in the end of communist rule in Eastern Europe in 1989. Represents a variety of perspectives relevant to the final collapse of communist control. (George Mason Univ.)
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Wilson Center Digital Archive: International History Declassified - "Contains once-secret documents from governments all across the globe" in "the history of international relations and diplomacy," focusing on "the interrelated histories of the Cold War, Korea, and Nuclear Proliferation." (Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars)
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