Teaching with Primary Sources The Federation of Independent Illinois Colleges and Universities
	Using the Library of Congress to Advantage to Study The Cold War Jessica Schmidly, Jackie Roth, Holly Martin, Sara Melton, Jacqueline Kelly
For the Student	Browse the pictures, documents, audio files, videos and maps below to better understand the Cold War and its players. Keep an eye out for key leaders and important actions they take. Click on the images below to see pictures from Cold War events and people. Russia’s Joseph Stalin at a conference in Potsdam Original letter from Premier Kruschev to President John F. Kennedy Kennedy on Inauguration Day A political cartoon about the Cuban Missile Crisis A political cartoon about the aftereffects of Communism and the Cold War A picture of a nuclear weapons development facility A picture of a nuclear weapons development facility A picture of a nuclear weapons test site A picture of machinery that contributed to nuclear missile defense A picture of a weapons component previously used for testing and upgrading A picture of components used to make nuclear defense missiles Click on the links below to take you to important documents seen during the Cold War. Telegram from Stalin to Truman Letter from Kruschev to Kennedy Soviet Communist Doctrine Government files on results of taking action in Cuba CIA memo on Cuban missile crisis Click on the links below to take you to important websites containing information about the Cold War and its after-effects. Postwar Estrangement Cuban Missile Crisis Soviet Point of View Information about Cuba Transcript of interview with Ambassador Robert Ellsworth Exhibit about Winston Churchill Presentation on Cold War cartoonist Edmund Valtman Information on Sputnik and the space race (Be sure to check out the links at the bottom of the site to hear Sputnik’s “beeps”) Click on the links below to take you to video and audio files containing information about the Cold War. End of the Cold War Empires Emerging from the Cold War Winston Churchill and Harry Truman Audio clips of John F. Kennedy during the Cuban Missile Crisis (Recommended by the LOC) Effects of a nuclear war (Video is in middle of page and is titled “Nobody Wins a Nuclear War”)
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