Module 3: Uneasy Peace: Proxy Wars

The Iron Curtain
(Keywords: Iron Curtain, Balkans, Churchill, Missouri)

Forging the Iron Curtain in the Balkans, 1944-1956: An interesting site that argues that it is invalid to think of the Iron Curtain totally in terms of great power politics, but rather that one must take local Balkan factors into account also.
http://www.lib.msu.edu/sowards/balkan/lect21.htm

The "Iron Curtain" speech: Winston Churchill's speech at Westminister College in Missouri where he coined the expression "iron curtain."
http://www.fordham.edu/HALSALL/MOD/churchill-iron.html
http://www.historyplace.com/speeches/ironcurtain.htm
http://history1900s.about.com/library/weekly/aa082400a.htm

The Yalta Conference
(Keywords: Yalta, conference, February 1945, Crimea, Roosevelt, Churchill, Stalin)

Modern History Sourcebook, the Yalta Conference, February 1945: The text of the agreements at Yalta.
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/1945YALTA.html

The Yalta Conference: This Electric Library article on Yalta gives a brief summary of the results of the conference.
http://www.encyclopedia.com/searchpool.asp?target=@DOCTITLE%20Yalta%20Conference

The Postsdam Conference, July and August 1945
(Keywords: Potsdam, conference, Stalin, Churchill, Atlee)

The Avalon Project: A Decade of American Foreign Policy: This site contains the text of the Postdam Conference.
http://www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/decade/decade17.htm

The Truman Doctrine
(Keywords: Truman Doctrine, Congress, American foreign policy, Soviet Union)

The Truman Doctrine Study Collection: This site has the official state papers submitted by President truman to Congress on the implementation of the Truman Doctrine in Greece and Turkey.
http://www.trumanlibrary.org/whistlestop/study_collections/doctrine/large/doctrine.htm

President Truman's address to Congress: These sites have President Truman's address to Congress announcing the Truman Doctrine (March 12, 1947.)
http://www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/trudoc.htm
http://www.u-s-history.com/pages/h1780.html

The Marshall Plan
(Keywords: Marshall Plan, Harvard University, Europe)

The best site found is the one below that leads to many other files, including a Communist crtique of the Marshall Plan.
http://lcweb.loc.gov/exhibits/marshall/

Germany
(Keywords: Berlin, airlift, photographs, documents)

The Berlin Airlift: Documents, Images, History: Photographs, cartoons, documents, everything you could ever want to know -
all from an American perspective though.
http://trumanlibrary.org/whistlestop/study_collections/berlin_airlift/large/berlin_airlift.htm

McCarthyism
(Keywords: McCarthyism, history, Red Scare)

The Age of McCarthyism: A Brief History with Documents: A good site with lots of interesting links.
http://www.english.upenn.edu/~afilreis/50s/schrecker-age.html

The Spartacus Encyclopedia article on McCarthyism: An interesting site linking McCarthyism to the Red Scare of the 1920s.
http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/USAredscare.htm

North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO)
(Keywords: NATO, alliance, North America, Europe)

The NATO Official Webpage: This site is kept up to date regularly, and will be useful for learning about the recent activities of NATO.
http://www.nato.int/home.htm

(US) Documents Relating to NATO:
http://www.mtholyoke.edu/acad/intrel/nato.htm

The Korean War
(Keywords: Korean War, Canada, United States, Truman, MacArthur)

Forgotten Heroes: Canada and the Korean War (1950-1953): An interesting site, primarily from the military viewpoint. Underlines the contribution of Canadians in the Conflict.
http://archives.cbc.ca/300c.asp?IDCat=71&IDDos=112&IDLan=1&IDMenu=71

The Korean War: A site that emphasizes the United Nations involvement in the war, possibly to excess. But it does have a detailed chronology of the events of the war.
http://www.korean-war.com

The Hungarian Revolution
(Keywords: Hungarian, Revolution, 1956, Freedom Fighter)

The 1956 Hungarian Revolution: An interesting site, trying to deal with the West's unwillingness to help the Hungarian Revolution.
http://www.rev.hu/archivum/tanulforr.html

Time Magazine's "Man of the Year: 1956 the Hungarian Freedom Fighter:" These sites have interesting information on the Hungarian Freedom Fighters from various perspectives.
http://www.hungary1956.com/photos.htm
http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/november/4/newsid_2739000/2739039.stm

The Berlin Wall
(Keywords: Berlin, wall, east, west, Germany)

The Berlin Wall Online: Lots of information about the wall, a timeline of its history, and many photographs.
http://www.dailysoft.com/berlinwall/

The Berlin Wall: Similar information to the previous site, but in considerably more detail. There is also many links to other sites.
http://userpage.chemie.fu-berlin.de/BIW/wall.html

East - West Relations: History of Germany: This site gives an encapsulated history of Ancient and Modern Germany. Focus on relations between East Germany and West Germany from 1949 to reunification and the end of the Cold War.
http://www.cybergerman.addr.com/relations.html

East Germany: A favourable account of East Germany
http://www.fortunecity.com/victorian/riley/787/DDR/

The Cuban Missle Crisis
(Keywords: Cuba, Missle Crisis, Kennedy, Khrushchev, quarantine)

Memories of the Cuban Missle Crisis: Fascinating sites with video of President Kennedy, and news stories from the events as they happened, and an interactive site with maps and discriptions of the events.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/october/28/newsid_2621000/2621915.stm
http://www.cubacrisis.net/

The Cuban Missile Crisis: Another interesting site, this one contains the exchange of letters between Kennedy and Khruschev (in Russian and translated.)
http://sunsite.unc.edu/pjones/russian/x2jfk.doc

Fourteen Days in October: The most detailed site possible, it requires RealAudio to take sull advantage of the site.
http://library.thinkquest.org/11046/

The Soviet Union
(Keywords: Soviet Union, United States, USSR)

The Soviet Union Factbook: This site had basic information about the USSR, it's leaders, state security organizations, military ranks and flags.
http://www.skalman.nu/soviet/

The Soviet Union and the United States: Lots of new information out of the Archives of the former Soviet Union.
http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/archives/sovi.html

Prague Spring
(Keywords: Prague, Spring, 1968, Perestroika, Glasnost, Yeltsin, Commonwealth)

Central Europe Online: These sites contain detailed information about the Czech rebellion.
http://www.heartofeurope.co.uk/history_slovakia12.htm
http://www.workers.org/marcy/cd/samczech/czech/czech04.htm

Prague Spring, 1968: Pro-Czech, but esentially fair.
http://library.thinkquest.org/C001155/index1.htm

Lech Walesa: This site has a biography of Lech Walesa.
http://www.nobel.se/peace/laureates/1983/walesa-bio.html

Perestroika: These interesting sites deal with Perestroika and the Soviet Union's beginning to move to a market economy.
http://www.ibiblio.org/expo/soviet.exhibit/perest.html
http://www.historyguide.org/europe/perestroika.html
http://www.historyorb.com/russia/perestroika.shtml

Glasnost: Policy Analysis: Gorbachev and Glasnost - a new Soviet Order - Implications for US Foreign Policy. This site was developed before the collapse of the Soviet Union, but still has interesting material.
http://www.ncsa.uiuc.edu/SDG/Experimental/soviet.exhibit/perest.html

Boris Yeltsin: A basically pro-Yeltsin site, with an enormous amount of information.
http://www.cs.indiana.edu/hyplan/dmiguse/Russian/bybio.html

The Commonwealth of Independent States: A simple, clear explanation of this complex part of the world.
http://www.infoplease.com/ce6/history/A0813056.html

The United Nations
(Keywords: UN, United Nations, UNESCO, FAO, Unicef, Peacekeeping)

Welcome to the United Nations: This site deals with the UN in a simple, straight-forward manner.
http://www.un.org/english/

The United Nations: System of Organizations: This site links to all of the sites of the UN agencies.
http://www.unsystem.org/

United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO): The UNESCO home page details the work of the vital organization.
http://www.unesco.org/

The Food and Agricultural Organization: The FAO home page details the work of the organization and had many links of interest.
http://www.fao.org/

United Nations Children's Emergency Fund: The UNICEF Home Page.
http://www.unicef.org/

International Labour Organization: The home page of the ILO.
http://www.ilo.org/

Peacekeeping Operations: The official UN Peacekeeping site.
http://www.un.org/Depts/dpko/dpko/home_bottom.htm

If for some reason the above links don't work, please use the keywords provided to do your own internet search.