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US and the World Depth Topics: The Cold War

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"American Students Practice for Air Raid Alarm, 1951." Gale World History Online Collection, Gale, 1951.

 

"Cold War" (Overview) from U.S. History in Context

"McCarthyism" (Overview) from U.S. History in Context

 

"Cuban Missile Crisis" (Overview) from U.S. History in Context

"Atomic Bomb and the Dawn of the Nuclear Age" (Overview) from U.S. History in Context

 

"Korean War" (Overview) from U.S. History in Context

"Vietnam War" (Overview) from U.S. History in Context

 

"Nuclear Preemption: Was the United States Correct in Trying to Preempt the Nascent Soviet Nuclear Arsenal?" by Benjamin Frankel for History in Dispute via U.S. History in Context

"Space Race" (Overview) from World History in Context

"The 1969 Moon Landing: First Humans to Walk on Another World" by Schlager and Lauer for Science and its Times via U.S. History in Context

 

"German Hammers at Berlin Wall." The Cold War, edited by Walter Hixson, Primary Source Media, 2000.

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