H -The United States and the Wider World from 1945 to 2003

1/ For more information and further reading, go to the following posts:

Why Military Power is no longer enough

JFK and the Cuban Crisis

The American Military in Korea



2/ Links from the BBC GCSE Bitesize website:

The Cold War: Revise The Cold War

Attempts at world peace since 1970: Revise Attempts at world peace since 1970

Causes of the Cold War

 

• Ideological differences - Stalin vs Truman

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• The Yalta and Potsdam conferences

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• Soviet power in Eastern Europe

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• The Truman Doctrine and Marshall Plan

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• Who was to blame?

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Developments in the Cold War 1948-1961

• The Berlin Blockade and airlift

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• The Korean War

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• International tension

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• The Hungarian Revolution

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• The U2 incident

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• The Berlin Wall

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• The nature of the cold war 1948-1961

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Cuban Missile Crisis

Causes of the Cuban Missile Crisis

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The Cuban Missile Crisis

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End of the Cold War

• The Prague Spring

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• Détente

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• The collapse of communism

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More links to do prepare your speaking presentation:

 

 

Yalta and Potsdam Conferences:

 

http://lamelin.com/histoire/marshall.htm

http://history.state.gov/milestones/1937-1945/yalta-conf

http://global.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/651424/Yalta-Conference

http://avalon.law.yale.edu/wwii/yalta.asp

http://history.state.gov/milestones/1937-1945/potsdam-conf

http ://www.johndclare.net/cold_war4.htm


The NATO:

http://history.state.gov/milestones/1945-1952/nato

http://history.state.gov/historicaldocuments

http://www.nato.int/history/nato-history.html

http://www.nato.int/cv/secgen/ismay.htm

http://www.nato.int/cps/ar/natolive/topics_77646.htm
www.nato.int

http://www.nato.int/docu/presskit/010219/004fr.pdf
 

The Truman Doctrine:
 

http://www.marshallfoundation.org/

http://www.marshallplan.freeterritorytrieste.com/

http://www.oecd.org/

http://www.history.com/topics/marshall-plan

http://www.findingdulcinea.com/news/on-this-day/April/Truman-Signs-Marshall-Plan.html

http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/marshall/marsintr.html

http://www.ourdocuments.gov

http://www.trumanlibrary.org/

http://www.americanrhetoric.com/speeches

 

Berlin Blockade:

 

« Germany During the Cold War » and « What caused The Berlin Blockade, 1948-1949 ? »,
johndclare.net http://www.johndclare.net/cold_war9.htm

« The Berlin Crisis, 1958-1961 », history.state.gov

“The Berlin blockade”, The Cold War Museum (coldwar.org)

« Die Berliner Luftbrücke », berlinerluftbrucke.de

Gail S. Halvorsen, The Berlin Candy Bomber 

« To Save A City », Roger G. Miller, United States Air Force History and museums Program, 1998. 

« MAC and the Berlin Airlift » by Roger D. Launius and Coy F. Cross III Military Airlift Command, 1998 

« Over The Hump » William H. Tunner, 1964 Duell, Sloan and Pearce

nationalcoldwarexhibition.org

http://84388555.nhd.weebly.com/impacts-of-the-berlin-airlift.html

http://www.trumanlibrary.org/whistlestop/study_collections/berlin_airlift/documents/PDFs/10.pdf

http://www.trumanlibrary.org/whistlestop/study_collections/berlin_airlift/documents/PDFs/10-6.pdf

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berlin_Blockade

http://www.history.com/topics/berlin-airlift

http://global.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/62154/Berlin-blockade-and-airlift

http://www.western-allies-berlin.com/historic-events/detail/airlift-blockade

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5GoIL9gVonQ

The Cuban Missile Crisis

http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/the-bay-of-pigs-invasion-begins

http://www.guerrefroide.net/pages/cuba

http://www-lacote-ch.www4.iomedia.infomaniak.ch/fr/photos/la-crise-des-missiles-sovietiques-a-cuba-en-octobre-novembre-1962-0-1048025?idPhoto=1 

The Reagan Doctrine and the end of the Cold War

http://www.radio-canada.ca/nouvelles/Dossiers/tetes/reagan/03.html
https://skydrive.live.com/view.aspxcid=8fa2bb6858cc5d43&id=documents&resid=8FA2BB6858CC5D43%212512&app=WordPdf&authkey=!AAAr_azMUyba3O4&
http://en.citizendium.org/wiki/Reagan_Doctrine
http://www.historyplace.com/speeches/reagan-parliament.htm
http://www.frontline.org.za/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=787:ronald-reagan-saves-lives-in-angola&catid=32:ang-nam-reports&Itemid=179
http://www.historyinanhour.com/2011/02/06/ronald-reagan-cold-war/

 

 First Gulf War 
http://www.defense.gov/news/newsarticle.aspx?id=45404
http://edition.cnn.com/2013/09/15/world/meast/gulf-war-fast-facts/
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/ce/Cardoen_Saddam.jpg
http://www.longwarjournal.org/images/Iraq-AQ-chemical-agents.jpg
http://users.erols.com/mwhite28/images/iraniraq.gif
http://www.voltairenet.org/IMG/jpg/1991_rumalia.jpg
http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/keywords/gulf_war.html
http://www.nps.edu/Academics/centers/ccc/people/biolinks/russell/CCAM%2018-2%20Russell.pdf
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/general-article/bush-gulf-war/
http://fmso.leavenworth.army.mil/documents/usgulf.htm
http://www.theatlantic.com/past/docs/issues/91jul/nye.htm
http://history.state.gov/departmenthistory/short-history/firstgulfhttp://www.history.com/topics/persian-gulf-war

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/gulf/

http://www.awm.gov.au/atwar/gulf/

http://www.military.com/Resources/HistorySubmittedFileView?file=history_gulfwar.htm

http://www.gulfweb.org/

War on Terror:

http://edition.cnn.com/2013/10/09/world/meast/top-10-terrorists/

http://www.rfi.fr/asie-pacifique/20110504-infographie-al-qaida-le-monde

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al-Qaeda

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_on_Terror

http://www.un.org/french/sc/committees/1267/index.shtml

http://fr.slideshare.net/BTghazwa/war-on-terror-brasstacks-presentation
 

http://fr.slideshare.net/dmcdowell/origins-of-the-war-on-terror

http://archives-lepost.huffingtonpost.fr/article/2011/09/11/2587642_l-avion-fantome-du-pentagone-11-septembre-2001.html

http://conflits.revues.org/17779?lang=en