Library
Turning Points
1945-1975
 
Cold War Era

CNN Interactive: Cold War
http://www.cnn.com/SPECIALS/cold.war/episodes/11/

Learning Curve: The Cold War
http://www.learningcurve.gov.uk/coldwar/default.htm

Eisenhower and the Cold War : 1953 - 61
http://history.sandiego.edu/GEN/20th/coldwarike.html

Cold War International History Project (advanced)
http://wilsoncenter.org/index.cfm?topic_id=1409&fuseaction=topics.home

The Cold War Museum
http://www.coldwar.org/

Fourteen Days in October : The Cuban Missile Crisis (ThinkQuest project)
http://library.thinkquest.org/11046/

John F. Kennedy Library and Museum (primary documents)
http://www.jfklibrary.org/Historical%20Resources/

Korea: States of War
http://www.cnn.com/SPECIALS/2000/korea/

Korea + 50: No Longer Forgotten
http://www.trumanlibrary.org/korea/

Time Travel to the Korean War (ThinkQuest Project)
http://library.thinkquest.org/28386/default.htm

The Fifties (See also The Decades)

The Fifties Web
http://www.fiftiesweb.com/music.htm

A Biography of America - The Fifties
http://www.learner.org/biographyofamerica/prog23/web/index.html

History Channel: The Fifties
http://www.historychannel.com/exhibits/fifties/

Levittown – Suburbs
http://tigger.uic.edu/~pbhales/Levittown/
 

Levittown at Fifty
http://www.newsday.com/community/guide/lihistory/ny-levittown,0,850235.storygallery?coll=ny-lihistory-navigation

Dwight D. Eisenhower
http://www.whitehouse.gov/history/presidents/de34.html
 

Character Above All: Dwight D. Eisenhower
http://www.pbs.org/newshour/character/essays/eisenhower.html
 
U.S. History – The Fifties
http://www.lkwdpl.org/lhs/fifties/

The Sixties  (See also Modern America)

The Civil Rights Movement

The Civil Rights Era
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/aaohtml/exhibit/aopart9.html

Civil Rights Timeline
http://www.africanamericans.com/CivilRights.htm

Greensboro Sit-Ins
http://www.sitins.com/

Little Rock Central High: 40th Anniversary
http://www.centralhigh57.org/

Martin Luther King Junior
http://www.seattletimes.com/mlk/

Montgomery Bus Boycott
http://home.att.net/~reniqua/

NAACP
http://www.naacp.org/

We Shall Overcome: Historic Places of the Civil Rights Movement
http://www.cr.nps.gov/nr/travel/civilrights/

Martin Luther King, Jr.
http://www.liu.edu/cwis/cwp/library/mlking.htm

The Vietnam Era

Vietnam Online (PBS)
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/vietnam/

The Wars of Vietnam
http://vietnam.vassar.edu/

The History Place Presents the Vietnam War
http://www.historyplace.com/unitedstates/vietnam/

 

 

 

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