Resources

 

  • BOOKS

 

Title: The Manchurian Candidate

Author: Richard Condon 

Title: 1984

Author: George Orwell 

Title: The Culture of the Cold War

Author: Stephen J. Whitfield

 Title: Cold War Constrctions: Political Culture of United States Imperialism

Author: Christian G. Appy

Title: Cold War and the Color Line: American Race Relations in the Global Arena

Author: Thomas Borstelmann 

 

 

  • MOVIES AND TELEVISION

 

Red Dawn (1984)

Platoon (1986)

Apocalypse Now (1979) 

The Day The Earth Stood Still (1951)

Dr. Strangelove: Or How I Learned To Stop Worrying And Love The Bomb (1964) 

Invasion Of The Body Snatchers (1956)

Rambo: First Blood Part II (1985)

Rambo III (1988)

Rocky IV (1985)

Stripes (1981)

Top Gun (1986)

Wargames (1983)

Miracle (2004)

Mad Men (2007)

Rocky And His Friends/ Adventures Of Rocky And Bullwinkle (1959)

Get Smart (1965)

Mission Impossible (1966)

Spies Like Us (1985)

Entire James Bond series beginning with: Dr. No (1962) 

 

  • IMAGES

 

cold war: american leaders

spy vs. spy

 

  • VIDEOS

 

jfk missile crisis http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P7YkJxQT_0Y

reagan tear down this wall http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WjWDrTXMgF8

billy joel we didnt start the fire http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jR-A4QFHZBA

duck and cover http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IKqXu-5jw60

space race: cold war front http://www.history.com/videos/space-race-cold-war-front#space-race-cold-war-front

cold war http://www.history.com/search?search-field=cold+war&x=0&y=0

cold war arms race: audio file http://www.history.com/audio/cold-war-arms-race#cold-war-arms-race

kennedy nixon debate cold war http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jznAJySwkmM

hollywood ten-mccarthyism communist hunts http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-8943185519266683529#

 

  • ARTICLES

 

the 1980’s history.com/topics/1980s

the 1970’s   history.com/topics/1970s

the 1960’s history.com/topics/1960s

the 1950’s history.com/topics/1950s

Eisenhower Doctrine http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/181513/Eisenhower-Doctrine

u.s. officially ends participtation in a cold war conflict-1/27/1973    http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/us-officially-ends-participation-in-a-cold-war-conflict

bay of pigs invasion  http://www.history.com/topics/bay-of-pigs-invasion

blacklist: a different look at the 1947 HUAC Hearings  moderntimes.com/blacklist/

kitchendebate.org

kitchen debate transcript  http://teachingamericanhistory.org/library/index.asp?document=176

a declaration of independence-malcolm x--teachingamericanhistory.org

the ballot or the bullet-malcolm x--teachingamericanhistory.org

telegram from soviet ambassador to the usa af dobrynin to ussr foreign ministry--robert kennedy talks about cuban missile crisis--wilsoncenter.org

ebony magazine archives--books.google.com

the shame of america ebony dec 1962

race relations in the year 200 ebony aug 1985

civil rights and education ebony sep 1965

the tragedy of teen age marriage ebony aug 1961

tear down this wall, ronald reagan historyplace.com

cold wars influence on art 1945-1970 http://www.time.com/time/photogallery/0,29307,1847017,00.html

abstract art and the cultural cold war   art-for-a-change.com

Shortages: Gas fever: Happiness is a Full Tank  

  • MUSIC

 

folk music 

Anti War Music   jwsrockgarden.com/jw02vvaw.htm

Eve Of Destruction: Barry Maquire http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IwYNWYaS3bI&feature=related

Land Of Confusion: Genesis http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zU9lv_WqK6k

 

  • ART

Franz Kline 

Abstract Expression http://www.artcyclopedia.com/history/abstract-expressionism.html

 Roy Lichtenstein

Pop Art http://www.artcyclopedia.com/history/pop.html

Bridget Riley 

Op Art http://www.artcyclopedia.com/history/optical.html

 

  • WEBSITES

 

american society in the cold war americanhistory.si.edu

american cultural history kclibrary.lonestar.edu/decade50.html

50's, 60’s, 70’s, 80’s

white house tapes. presidential recordings program kennedy transcripts  http://whitehousetapes.net/transcript/kennedy

james meredith march june 1966 jofreeman.com

causes and affects of cold war  buzzle.com

cold war facts   buzzle.com

thepeoplehistory.com

50’s 60’s 70‘s 80’s

mccarthyism in the 50’s http://www.colorado.edu/AmStudies/lewis/2010/mccarthy.htm