NY State Curriculum Notes     

TEACHER’S NOTE: Choose examples that best fit your local curriculum and the needs of your students. Students should investigate superpower rivalries in at least two different settings. 

• What impact did the conflict between the superpowers have on the rest of the world?

• What was the global impact of the Cold War?

• Why did nations like Greece and Turkey become important in this struggle ?

The Cold War

• Cold War International History Project The site has a huge and accessible online library.

• Cold War Hot Links

• Documents Relating to American Foreign Policy--the Cold War  

• Documents Relating to American Foreign Policy--NATO  

Beginnings

• The Yalta Conference, 1945

• Krystyna Kersten, Poles' Responses to the Realities of 1944-1947

• Winston S. Churchill (1874-1965): "Iron Curtain" Speech, 1946, excerpts and here 
• Winston S. Churchill (1874-1965): Words on War - contains the speech live in audio files.
• Joseph Stalin: Response to Churchill's Iron Curtain Speech, 1946 
• Proposal for International Control of Atomic Weapons, 1946
• The Truman Doctrine, 1947 
• The Marshall Plan, 1947 Long excerpts from the Speech delivered by General George Marshall at Harvard University on June 5, 1947
• Dean Acheson, The Decision to Help Greece and Turkey

• Image Conference for European Economic Cooperation, 1947

• Marshal Tito defied Cominform, 1948

• The North Atlantic Treaty, 1949

• Image Germany Divided

• NATO Treaty, 1949

• Warsaw Pact of 1955

• The U2 Incident, 1960 

• Founding of the National Intelligence Structure, 1945-46

• National Security Act, 1947

Berlin Crises

• The Berlin Crisis 1958-1962

• Cold War I: Berlin Crisis - Introduction

• The Berlin Crisis, 1958-1962

• USA and USSR: Exchange of Notes on the Berlin Wall, 1961 

• Image Soviets stripped plants of machinery

• Image Establishment of German Democratic Republic

• Image Berlin air lift

Cold Warriors

• United States Atomic Energy Commission: In The Matter of J. Robert Oppenheimer 
  Texts of Principal Documents and Letters of Personnel Security Board, General Manager, Commissioners Washington, D.C., May 27, 1954, through June 29, 1954

• President Eisenhower: The Eisenhower Doctrine on the Middle
• TASS: Statement on the Eisenhower Doctrine, January 14 1957 
• John Foster Dulles: Dynamic Peace, 1957 
• Khrushchev and Eisenhower: Summit Statements, May 16 1960 
• Nikita Krushchev: Address to the UN General Assembly, Sept. 23 1960
• East, A Message to Congress, January 5, 1957
• President John F. Kennedy: Inaugural Address, 1961
• President John F. Kennedy: Towards a Strategy of Peace, June 10, 1963
• A. V. Efimov: Modern History: Textbook for the Ninth Form, 1965.A Soviet textbook on US History from the height of the Cold War.

Literary Reflections

• The Political Writings of George Orwell 1937-1945 With a wide selection of Orwell's writings.

• George Orwell (1903-1950): Nationalism, 1945