United Nations Headquarters
http://WWW.UN.ORG/
Description: The United Nations homepage has information on the international organizations, global issues, world documents and other international and contemporary issues.
Comments: This site is also good for international economic issues and comparative government issues.
Resource Type: Primary Source Text
Graphics Content: High
 

United Nations Environment Program Homepage
http://www.unep.ch/
Description: The United Nation's Environment homepage has conventions/treaties on the aspects of the environment. It has a wealth of data on global resources and international trade aspects of these resources.
Resource Type: Primary Source Text
Graphics Content: High
 

United States-Africa Information Agency
http://www.usia.gov/
regional/af/af.htm
Description: This is a huge site with current news of sub-saharan Africa. It links to the State Department gopher. U.S. policy statements and country information will be found here.
Resource Type: Compilation of Links
Graphics Content: High
 

Universal Declaration of Human Rights
http://www.un.org/
Pubs/CyberSchoolBus/
humanrights/resources/
universal.htm
Description: This remarkable document written in 1948 by the United Nations defines a broad view of human rights in 30 simply written articles. 
Comments: Chart the development of the concept of human rights by comparing this document to other documents such as the Rights of Man and Citizen and the Bill of Rights.
Resource Type: Primary Source Text
Graphics Content: Low
 

World Bank 
http://www.worldbank.org/
Description: Here is general World Bank information useful for international trade and developing nations studies. It would also be very helpful for Model United Nations students.
Comments: Mix of primary and secondary materials from World Bank.
Resource Type: Primary Source Text
Graphics Content: Low
 

World Trade Organization (WTO) Homepage
http://www.wto.org/
index.htm
Description: The WTO's homepage contains a massive amount of world trade data. Good source for studying international trade issues for the United States and its trading partners.
Comments: Government and economic activity links and contemporary issues are also connected to this site.
Resource Type: Primary Source Text
Graphics Content: High
 

Project Information - Documents from the World Bank 
http://www.worldbank.org/
html/pic/PIDs.html
Description: Provides information on any financed projects of the World Bank. Look at China in the search database.
Resource Type: Secondary Text
Graphics Content: Low
 

UVIC History: U.S. History--The Cold War
http://web.uvic.ca/
hrd/history.learn-teach/
coldwar.htm
Description: This information about the Cold War was developed by the CIA. It includes the Soviet position on Cold War events including its response to the Cuban Missle Crisis in the early 1960s. 
Comments: An important, useful research site with documents and treaties 
Resource Type: Compilation of Links
Graphics Content: High
 

Citizen Kurchatov: Stalin's Bomb Maker
http://www.pbs.org/
opb/citizenk/revolution/
index.html
Description: Follow the development of the Soviet nuclear program in the Cold War through the life of Igor Kurchatov. Through this website which accompanies the PBS series, explore the pressures under which Soviet scientists worked and the impact of their research on East-West relations.
Comments: This is a unique, non Western view of the Cold War.
Resource Type: Secondary Text
Graphics Content: High
 

Cold War
http://learning.turner.
com/coldwar/
Description: This fabulous site accompanies the CNN series on the Cold War. It includes primary source material, interviews of the various actors in the major events of the Cold War (including Fidel Castro), photos, timelines background information and much more. 
Comments: The site grows with each new broadcast in the series. There is an e-mail activity for students to participate in after each broadcast.
Resource Type: Mix of Text and Graphics
 

Maps of the Cold War
http://CNN.com/
SPECIALS/cold.war/
kbank/maps/index.html
Description: This CNN site has incredible intearactive maps from the Cold War on topics such as the Marshall Plan, holders of nuclear weapons, and the line up of countries on each side, and on events such as the Korea War, Chinese Revolution, Vietnam War and Berlin.
Resource Type: Map
Graphics Content: High
 

North Atlantic Treaty Organization 
http.//nato.int 
Description: The North Atlantic Treaty Organization is the number one treaty organization involving United States foreign policy in Europe from the Cold War to the post Cold War years.
Comments: This is an important site for the study of American foreign policy decisions in Europe.
Resource Type: Mix of Text and Graphics
Graphics Content: High
 

Another View of Stalin
http://www.tiac.net/
users/knut/Stalin/
book.html
Description: Here is a book which looks at the Soviet dictator Josef Stalin through the eyes of the exploited and oppressed, is intended to directly confront the standard attacks made against Stalin, and explain why he did the horrible things that he did.
Resource Type: Secondary Text
Graphics Content: High
 

Did NATO Win the Cold War?
http://www.gwu.edu
/~nsarchiv/
NSAEBB/NSAEBB14/
index.htm
Description: On the Fiftieth Anniversary of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, The National Security Archives declassified and prepared these ten Cold War documents for publication on the WWW. The documents are supported with secondary text.
Comments: These recently declassified documents might be a good History Day paper.
Resource Type: Primary Source Text
Graphics Content: Low
 

NATO at 50
http://cnn.com/
SPECIALS/1999/nato/
Description: A CNN special web site on the changing role of NATO commemorates the fiftieth anniversary of the orgaization.. The interactive map allows the user to get statistics on NATO member nations, and an interactive timeline reviews the history of NATO. 
Resource Type: Mix of Text and Graphics
Graphics Content: High

Red Scare 1947-53
http://CNN.com/
SPECIALS/cold.war/
episodes/06/
Description: Here are primary source documents and film files on the Army-McCarthy Hearings. Also included are biographical pieces, information on the Rosenbergs and a text of the CNN program.
Resource Type: Mix of Text and Graphics
Graphics Content: High
 

Red Scare
http://cnn.com/SPECIALS/
cold.war/episodes/06/
Description: Designed to augment a CNN series on the Cold War, this site has materials on McCarthey and the Communist Party in the US. It has topics for discussion and debate.
Comments: This is probably a temporary site.
Resource Type: Primary Source Text
Graphics Content: High
 

Senator Joseph McCarthy -- A Multimedia Celebration
http://webcorp.com/
mccarthy/
Description: This site has speeches and pictures of Joseph McCarthy. It requires Real Audio in order to get the full benefit.
Comments: This is a very critical view of McCarthy without the historical context of the anti-communist fear within American society.
Resource Type: Sound or Music
Graphics Content: High
 

European Recovery 50th Anniversary of the Marshall Plan
http://lcweb.loc.gov/
exhibits/marshall/
Description: In a now-celebrated speech delivered at the Harvard University commencement on June 5, 1947, Secretary of State George Catlett Marshall (1880-1959) proposed a solution to the wide-spread hunger, unemployment, and housing shortages that faced Europeans in the aftermath of World War II. Marshall's address was the culmination of increasing U.S. concern over the disintegrating European situation. The physical destruction of the war and the general economic dislocation threatened a breakdown of moral, social, and commercial life. Raw materials and food were in short supply, and war-damaged industries needed machinery and capital before production could be resumed. The plan was the boldest, most successful, and certainly the most expensive foreign policy initiative ever attempted in peacetime.
Comments: A good way to analyze these materials is to use the Document Analysis Worksheet http://www.nara.gov/
education/teaching/analysis/
analysis.htmlstudy these 
Resource Type: Primary Source Text
Graphics Content: Low
 

Marshall Plan-1947-1952
http://www.cnn.com/
SPECIALS/cold.war/
episodes/03/
Description: This web site was designed to accompany episode 3 of the CNN Cold War series. It includes primary resource documents, an interactive map, newsreel footage, biographical information, and news articles from Time Magazine to Pravda.
Resource Type: Mix of Text and Graphics
Graphics Content: High
 

Korean War Photos
http://www.dnaco.net/
~csmartin/kwar.html
Description: This site is a series of photos taken by a radio operator in Charly Company of the15th Infantry from 1952-53 in Korea. It gives a glimpse of what life was like for soldiers and civilians during the Korean War.
Resource Type: Photos or Pictures
Graphics Content: High
 

Marshall Plan
http://cnn.com/SPECIALS/
cold.war/episodes/03/
Description: Designed to augment a CNN series on the Cold War, this site has materials on the Marshall Plan and the founding of the Central Intelligence Agency under Truman. It has topics for discussion and debate.
Comments: This is probably a temporary site.
Resource Type: Primary Source Text
Graphics Content: High
 

Truman Library
http://metalab.unc.edu/
lia/president/TrumanLibrary/
GeneralMaterials
Description: This the best section of a site still
under construction. Truman's life story is described.
Other themes arebeing developed and updated.
Comments: Shows potential, but this site has many
areas which still need development.
Resource Type: Mix of Text and Graphics
Graphics Content: High
 

Berlin Airlift
http://www.whistlestop.org/
study_collections/berlin_
airlift/large/berlin_airlift.htm
Description: Here is an amazing collection of documents, photos and historical interpretation on the Berlin Airlift from the Truman Presidential Library.
Resource Type: Primary Source Text
Graphics Content: High
 

Berlin Wall Comes Down
http://www.cnn.com/
SPECIALS/cold.war/
episodes/23/
Description: This web site was written to accompany an episode of the CNN Cold War series. The site contains a slide show, primary resource documents, interviews, and discussions of the repercussions of this historic event. 
Resource Type: Mix of Text and Graphics
Graphics Content: High
 

Berlin Airlift
http://www.usafe.af.mil/
berlin/berlin.htm
Description: This is the United States Air Forces in Europe Berlin Airlift web site. Included on the site are interviews, photographs, video clips, and statistics.
Resource Type: Mix of Text and Graphics
Graphics Content: High
 

End and Beginning
http://www.dhm.de/
ausstellungen/
eaintroe.html
Description: This subsite of the German Historical Museum in Berlin features black and white photographs of wartime and post-war Germany. 
Comments: Photos are displayed as thumbnail sketches for easy previewing with the option to download the larger version. Biographies of photographers are in German.
Resource Type: Photos or Pictures
Graphics Content: High
 

Korean War
http://violet.berkeley.edu/
~korea/koreanwar.html
Description: Developed by the Korean Studies Department at U.C. Berkeley, this site describes the origins, consequences, major events and historical figures of the Korean War 1951-1953.
Comments: This site offers a balanced history of the war which would be enhanced with more pictures, maps and primary source material. 
Resource Type: Secondary Text
Graphics Content: Low
 

Korean War
http://cnn.com/SPECIALS/
cold.war/episodes/05/
Description: Designed to augment a CNN series on the Cold War, this site has materials on the Korean War 1949-1953. It has topics for discussion and debate.
Comments: This is probably a temporary site.
Resource Type: Primary Source Text
Graphics Content: High
 

Korean War
http://cnn.com/SPECIALS/
cold.war/episodes/05/
Description: Designed to augment a CNN series on the Cold War, this site has materials on the Korean War 1949-1953. It has topics for discussion and debate.
Comments: This is probably a temporary site.
Resource Type: Primary Source Text
Graphics Content: High
 

Korean War Maps
http://www.koreanwar.org/
html/maps.html
Description: This series of historical maps was compiled by the Korean War Project. They give detailed information about geography, troop movements and battles of the Korean War.
Resource Type: Map
Graphics Content: High
 

UVIC History: U.S. History--The Cold War
http://web.uvic.ca/
hrd/history.learn-teach/
coldwar.htm*
Description: This information about the Cold War was developed by the CIA. It includes the Soviet position on Cold War events including its response to the Cuban Missle Crisis in the early 1960s. 
Comments: An important, useful research site with documents and treaties 
Resource Type: Compilation of Links
Graphics Content: High
 

Collective Memories of the Cuban Missle Crisis
http://www.stg.brown.edu/
projects/classes/mc166k/
missile_crisis_34.html*
Description: This page is a compilation on links to various sites containing written recollections of people about the Cuban Missle Crisis.
Resource Type: Compilation of Links
Graphics Content: Low
 

Cuba
http://cnn.com/SPECIALS/
cold.war/episodes/10/*
Description: Designed to augment a CNN series on the Cold War, this site has materials on the Cuban Missile Crisis. It has topics for discussion and debate.
Comments: This is probably a temporary site.
Resource Type: Primary Source Text
Graphics Content: High
 

Cuban Missile Crisis l962
http://www.multied.com/
Sixties/Cuban.html*
Description: This is a fairly detailed review of Cuban Missile Crisis. Learn how the U.S. responded to the news of Soviet missile sites in Cuba.
Comments: Several pages of text with no additional links.
Resource Type: Secondary Text
Graphics Content: Low
 

Cuban Missile Crisis, Oct l962
http://www.bilkent.edu.tr/
~bayer/cmc/MAIN.HTML*
Description: This site has materials related to the Cuban Missile Crisi including documents, maps, and involvement of other countries.
Comments: Both primary and secondary sources, some quite unusual, can be found here. 
Resource Type: Mix of Text and Graphics
Graphics Content: Low
 

National Air and Space Museum
http://www.nasm.si.edu/
Description: Tour of the National Air and Space Museum; History of flight into the space age, Apollo moon missions and beyond.
Comments: Explores issues such as the beginnings of flight, the dropping of the Atomic bomb and Space, Above and Beyond.
Resource Type: Mix of Text and Graphics
Graphics Content: High
 

50 Years from Trinity on the Internet
http://www.seattletimes.
com/trinity/supplement/
internet.html
Description: Here is a short directory of Internet sites involving atomic weapons and nuclear energy.
Resource Type: Compilation of Links
Graphics Content: Low
 

Vietnam and the Vietnam War Pictures Archive 
http://metalab.unc.edu/
vietnam/vnpic.html
Description: Explore Vietnam and the war. Vietnamese fonts are used and helpful to those who can read Vietnamese.
Comments: Reliable sources on this topic. Need a lot of computer memory.
Resource Type: Mix of Text and Graphics
Graphics Content: High
 

Vietnam Memorial and History
http://photo2.si.edu/
legacy/legacy.html
Description: This is an exhibition of objects left at the Vietnam Veteran Memorial sponsored jointly by the National Museum of American History, the Smithsonian Institute and the National Park Service.
Comments: This site gives a very graphic demonstration of how the Vietnam War provides a living legacy for the present.
Resource Type: Mix of Text and Graphics
Graphics Content: High
 

Vietnam War History Page
http://www.bev.net/
computer/htmlhelp/
vietnam.html
Description: A very complete researching of links that also includes photos and primary source documents. This site was used as a basis for a college class.
Comments: A great place for students to begin a study of Vietnam or augment information already gathered.
Resource Type: Mix of Text and Graphics
Graphics Content: High
 

The Whole World Was Watching: An Oral History of 1968
http://www.stg.brown.edu/
projects/1968/
Description: In this oral history project directed by Brown University, students from South Kingston High School interviewed a diverse body of Rhode Islanders about what they remember of the year 1968. Topcs include the Vietnam War, the Civil Rights Movement, the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. and Robert Kennedy, and women's issues. The timeline has hot links to web resources about people and events of the era.
Resource Type: Primary Source Text
Graphics Content: High
 

Reflections, Memories and Images of Vietnam Past
http://grunt.space.swri.edu/
thepast.htm
Description: Many eyewitness accounts, diaries, poems, photographs and other memorabilia are available here. One can search the Vietnam Wall for information about a name on it.
Comments: For those interested in this war, visiting this site is compelling.
Resource Type: Mix of Text and Graphics
Graphics Content: High
 

Richard Nixon Audio Archive
http://www.webcorp.com/
sounds/nixon.htm
Description: Most of Richard NixonÕs speeches can be quickly accessed and heard here, including some of his early speeches such as the "Checkers" speech.
Comments: Hearing Richard Nixon's speeches makes all the difference.
Resource Type: Primary Source Text
Graphics Content: Low
 

The Vietnam Experience
http://www.shore.net/
~vietnam/
Description: This is a pictorial history of one veteran's years in Vietnam. An excellent set of pictures of many aspects of the war and a set of outside links make this site an excellent research tool.
Resource Type: Mix of Text and Graphics
Graphics Content: High
 

Desert Storm
http://www.geocities.com/
SoHo/9782/
Description: A Gulf War Veteran's journal and photo gallery may be accessed at this site. Also included are memories of other Vets and a database for locating them.
Comments: Some good primary source material on the Vietnam War is available here.
Resource Type: Mix of Text and Graphics
Graphics Content: High
 

Accion Zapatista
http://www.utexas.edu/
students/nave/
Description: Accion Zapatista gathers and redistributes information about the Zapatistas and the struggle for democracy in Mexico. Includes the communiques of the rebels, plus related resources on the issues. Some information a bit old, but useful.
Resource Type: Primary Source Text
Graphics Content: High
 

Brasil - Environment by Sergio Koreisha
http://darkwing.uoregon.edu/
~sergiok/brenvironment.html
Description: Here is an excellent collection of links related to the environment of Brazil, one of the country's major issues. Includes resources from both Brazilian and other countries and organizations. Many rainforest sites are listed. (Many sites are Portuguese language.)
Resource Type: Compilation of Links
Graphics Content: High
 

Brazil in Brief Index
http://www.brasil.emb.
nw.dc.us/bzindx.htm
Description: Hee are brief answers to basic questions about Brazil: land, people, history, economy, politics, etc. Provided by the Brazilian Embassy in Washington, D.C.
Resource Type: Secondary Text
Graphics Content: High
 

CIA World Factbook: Mexico
http://www.odci.gov/cia/
publications/factbook/
mx.html
Description: This site has both historical and current information on Mexico provided by the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency. It gives social, political, geographic, cultural and other basic reference information and also includes a map.
Resource Type: Secondary Text
Graphics Content: High
 

Green Party and NAFTA
gopher://ecosys.drdr.
Virginia.EDU:70/00/library/
civ/nafta/g1
Description: The Green Party's perspective on the negative impact of NAFTA on the environment in the Western Hemisphere.
Comments: Good resource for a point-counter point study of NAFTA.
Resource Type: Primary Source Text
Graphics Content: Low
 

Cold War-Conclusions
http://www.cnn.com/
SPECIALS/cold.war/
episodes/24/
Description: This site was designed to accompany the last episode of the CNN Cold War series. It includes primary resource documents, interviews with world leaders, video of the Communist coup as covered on CNN, and an analysis of the changes brought on by the end of communist rule in Russia.
Resource Type: Type of Resource
Graphics Content: High
 

Modern Presidents - Foreign and Domestic Policy
http://www.pbs.org/
wgbh/pages/amex/
presidents/frames/
featured/featured.html
Description: This PBS site has a wealth of primary material and overview descriptions of the domestic and foreign policy of the major 20th c. presidents from Teddy Roosevelt to Ronald Reagan.
Comments: A teacher's guide is available on the page. This accompanies the American Experience film series.
Resource Type: True
Graphics Content: True
 

Photos of Ronald Reagan and Family
http://www.lbjlib.utexas.edu/
reagan/photos/history.htm
Description: Photographs in chronological order from the Reagan Presidential Library may be accessed and enlarged at this site. These are family photos from third grade to l971.
Comments: Insights into Reagan's childhood make this site valuable to any Reagan researcher.
Resource Type: Photos or Pictures
Graphics Content: High
 

Possible Soviet Responses to the US Strategic Defense Initiative
http://www.fas.org/
spp/starwars/offdocs/
m8310017.htm
Description: This document was originally a secret CIA document. It was released in l983 although some portions are still
Comments: Useful document for those researching Reagan's Star Wars plan.
Resource Type: Primary Source Text
Graphics Content: Low
 

Ronald Reagan Fortieth President: 1981-1989 
http://www.whitehouse.gov/
WH/glimpse/presidents/
html/rr40.html
Description: The texts of Ronald Reagan's First and Second Inaugral Addresses as well as a brief biography can be accessed at this site.
Comments: Essential reading for the serious Reagan researcher.
Resource Type: Primary Source Text
Graphics Content: High
 

Islamic Association for Palestine
http://www.iap.org/
Description: Founded in 1981, the Islamic Association for Palestine is a non-profit organization dedicated to working towards a fair, just and comprehensive solution to the problem of Palestine.
Comments: Includes news briefs from a Palestinian view.
Resource Type: Secondary Text
Graphics Content: Low
 

Jewish Communication Network
http://www.jcn18.com/
Description: Here is a wide variety of issues related to Jewish life are covered in this New York site. This site has links to Israeli news media, pages with many primary sources related to Jewish beliefs and holidays, contemporary and historic documents and articles, and online publications.
Resource Type: Compilation of Links
Graphics Content: Low
 

Jews & Palestinians Cooperate for Peace
http://www.igc.org/
traubman/dg-tlart.htm
Description: The problems of the Arab-Israeli Conflict extend to California. This account describes how a small group has come together to help with the peace process between these ancient enemies.
Resource Type: Primary Source Text
Graphics Content: High
 

Online Intelligence Network: Middle East and South Asia
http://www.icg.org/
intelweb/mideast.html
Description: Here are many links to informational resources on topics of current interest in the Middle East. Many links are to government and news resources.
Resource Type: Compilation of Links
Graphics Content: Low

First Lady of the World: Eleanor Roosevelt at Val-Kill 
http://www.cr.nps.gov/
nr/twhp/wwwlps/lessons/
26roosevelt/26roosevelt.htm
Explore the non public life of Eleanor Roosevelt, sometimes called America's Ambassador to the world. At her home in Val-Kill New York, Eleanor met informally with many of the world's leaders and worked on such projects as the UN Declaration of Human Rights. 
Author: Todd Stoeberl . 
 

Human Rights in Action
http://www.un.org/
Pubs/CyberSchoolBus/
humanrights/index.html
The year 1998 marked the 50th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the modern standard for justice and freedom for every man, woman, and child across the globe.To commemorate this event, the United Nations CyberSchoolBus put together an interactive educational project to learn about this important document. Explore the Universal Declaration and see what classrooms and students can do when it comes to human rights.
Author: CyberSchoolBus
 

"One Giant Leap for Mankind" Revisiting the Apollo 11 Mission 
http://www.nytimes.com/
learning/teachers/lessons/
990719monday.html
Gain an understanding of the significance of the Apollo 11 lunar landing thirty years later by interviewing an adult about his or her memories of the specific events and impact of the mission. As journalists in July 1969, incorporate those interviews into news articles documenting citizens' views of this historic "step for mankind." 
Author: Alison Zimbalist, The New York Times Learning Network 
 

Bosnian Virtual Fieldtrip
http://geog.gmu.edu/
projects/bosnia/
bosnia.html
Should the U.S. be involved in Bosnia? What is happening and why? This activity from George Mason University weaves online maps, history and news with decision-making questions to bring this important policy issue to life for all students.
Author: Jeremy Crampton and Linda Rundstrom
 

Brinksmanship: Stalin at Yalta
http://CNN.com/SPECIALS/
cold.war/episodes/01/game/
You are Joseph Stalin. It is February, 1945, and you are meeting with Churchill and Roosevelt at Yalta. They want you to sign a declaration allowing free elections in Poland. Will you do it? 
Author: CNN Cold War
 

Life Without the Cold War: An Exercise in Alternate History
http://cnn.com/SPECIALS/
cold.war/experience/
technology/life.without/
index.html 
This site is best viewed with a 4.0
browser and requires javascript 
Life without the Cold War?
Cold War Technology Senior Editor Dave Rickett has developed three "what if" scenarios -- an exercise known by its devotees as "alternate history" -- which challenge you to consider the potential outcomes had history been different. You may find some parts plausible, others absurd. You can take part in this provocative exercise by posting your reactions or your own alternate scenarios on CNN's message boards. 
Author: Dave Rickett
 

Space: NASA's Frontier
http://www.nytimes.com/
learning/teachers/
lessons/981013tuesday.html
As NASA turns 40, research the history and accomplishments of the American space program and ponder its role in the future. 
Author: Carolyn Stein, The New York Times Learning Network
 

Spy's Dilemma
http://www.whistlestop.org/
applications/dilemma/
dilemma.html
If you were a spy and had 45 minutes to photograph the five most important documents from Truman's office, which would they be? (The documents are in the Truman library collection)
Author: Raymond H. Geselbrach
 

Brinksmanship: Committee on Un-American Activities
http://CNN.com/
SPECIALS/cold.war/
episodes/06/game/
You are a Hollywood screenwriter. It is 1947, and you have just been called before the House Un-American Activities Committee to testify about communism in Hollywood. You know some colleagues who were supportive of the Communists in the Spanish Civil War. What will you say? 
Author: CNN Cold War Series
 

Communism and Containment
http://score.rims.k12.ca.us/
activity/communism/
In May, a researcher in the Pentagon was conducting routine work to declassify military documents. The worker was astounded to find a file detailing a research experiment begun in 1945. Reading the documents sent a chill through the young man even as he quickly notified his superior. The lights in the Pentagon were on late that night as level after level of admirals, generals and assorted brass were brought into the picture. At eleven oÕclock the president of the United States was called and the Joint Chiefs of Staff were summoned to inform the President on the details of the situation. You are directed to immediately begin a program to insure that the American way of life will be maintained in case of a threat to the established government of the United States. Should any event (for example war) overtake and change our present form of authority, this program must be in place to provide a means to re-establish the American system. All funds necessary to implement this program will be made available. 
Author: Dennis Durbin
 

"To Be Or Not To Be": American Response to the Cuban Missile Crisis
Viewable on the CTAP
1999 CDROM
Students simulate an 
Ex-Comm (Executive Committee of the National Security Council) meeting to brief President Kennedy about the high-flying U-2 American reconnaissance plane's discovery of Soviet missile sites in Cuba on October 15, 1962.
Author: Carol Krug
 

Explosive Knowledge: Tracking Six Decades of Nuclear Development
http://www.nytimes.com/
learning/teachers/
lessons/990311
thursday.html
Discuss a featured New York Times article which examines China's suspected theft of American nuclear secrets. As a springboard from the article create a research-based, multi-tiered timeline that traces the development, regulation, and use of nuclear weapons from the 1940's to today.
Author: Alison Zimbalist and Lorin Driggs
 

Quest for Peace and Diplomacy: A WebQuest on the India-Pakistan Conflict
http://www.angelfire.com/
wy/peacequest/index.html
India-Pakistan have been in dispute over Kashmir since independence in 1947. Negotiators have so far been unsuccessful in obtaining a peace agreement between the two countries. Recent "testing" of nuclear weapons by both countries has escalated the importance of resolving this conflict. A Peace Summit has been called at the United Nations office in Geneva, Switzerland, by the U.N. Security Council as a final attempt to avert nuclear warfare in Pakistan and India. A war between these two nations could escalate to encompass the entire world. Delegations from Pakistan, India, Kashmir, and the United States have been invited to the meeting to present their proposals for a lasting peace and an end to calls for war. You are part of one of those delegations.
Author: Fatemeh Sheikh
 

Thaw in the Cold War: Eisenhower and Khrushchev at Gettysburg
http://www.cr.nps.gov/
nr/twhp/wwwlps/
lessons/29ike/29ike.htm
At the height of the Cold War in 1959, U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower and Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev had reached an impasse. Eisenhower hoped there was a chance to reach past the differences between the two countries if they could meet at his form in rural Pennsylvania, away from advisors and all the diplomatic protocol. Using primary doucments, maps and pictures of this historic place, find out if their meeting helped move the world toward peace. 
Author: Gettysburg National Historic Site
 

Vietnam: Do We Need a Mural?
http://students.itec.sfsu.edu/
itec815/mcmullin/index.html
The mayor of your town has announced a plan to hire a local artist to paint a large mural commemorating the Vietnam War on the side of the downtown public library. But the plan for a mural is causing a lot of controversy in your town. Some citizens don't want the mural at all. Other citizens have different opinions about what the mural should look like.
Author: Gerald McMullin
 

Brinkmanship: Ronald Reagan Iran-Contra
http://cnn.com/SPECIALS/
cold.war/episodes/18/game/
You are President Reagan's national security adviser. The president, fearing that a communist Nicaragua threatens all of Central America, has asked you to find a way to continue helping the "Contras." What would you recommend?
Author: CNN Cold War Series
 

Investigating U.S.- Cuba Relations and Policy Changes
http://www.nytimes.com/
learning/teachers/lessons/
990106wednesday.html
Explore past U.S.-Cuban relations, by researching various key events and people in the past century and creating a class timeline, in order to evaluate recently-eased restrictions in policy on Cuba and the potential exhibition baseball games between the Baltimore Orioles and the Cuban national team. 
Author: Alison Zimbalist, The New York Times Learning Network
 

Mock Organization of American States Conference
http://ladb.unm.edu/
retanet/plans/soc/
oas.html
As diplomats from Latin American countries you come to the conference of the Organization of American States with a resolution to present to your fellow ambassadors that addresses a current critical issue/interest of your country.
Author: Barbara Trujillo
 

Treaty of Guadalupe Hildalgo
http://www.nara.gov/
education/cc/
treatygh.html
In groups, identify the issues/causes that led to the Mexican War. Catagorize the data as long-term, short-term, or immediate. Each group reports its results to the class in order to create a comprehensive classroom list of the issues/ causes that led to the Mexican War. Groups match or link the articles of the treaty with the causes/issues that led to the war. Teacher will need to provide the background material to young or second language students before starting the lesson.
Author: National Archives and Records Administration
 

Brinkmanship: Ronald Reagan Iran-Contra
http://cnn.com/SPECIALS/
cold.war/episodes/18/
game/
You are President Reagan's national security adviser. The president, fearing that a communist Nicaragua threatens all of Central America, has asked you to find a way to continue helping the "Contras." What would you recommend?
Author: CNN Cold War Series
 

Brinksmanship: Ronald Reagan in 1986
http://cnn.com/SPECIALS/
cold.war/episodes/22/
game/
You are President Ronald Reagan. It is October 1986, and your pet defense project, the Strategic Defense Initiative, has become a stumbling block at the Reykjavik summit with Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev. What should you do?
Author: CNN Cold War Series
 

A Kingship Rested in Peace: King Hussein
http://www.nytimes.com/
learning/teachers/lessons/
990208monday.html
Assess, through discussion and research, the impact of King Hussein of Jordan on the Middle East, the peace process, and United States foreign relations. Small groups focus on the five decades of King HusseinÕs rule, creating a timeline of his reign and of the subsequent steps taken towards peace in the Middle East and worldwide. 
Author: Alison Zimbalist, The New York Times Learning Network
 

Blocking Trade, or Blocking Aid? Exploring U.S. Intervention in Iraq 
http://www.nytimes.com/
learning/teachers/lessons/
990113wednesday.html
Examine various foreign conflicts in which the United States intervened, focusing on the causes of the conflicts, the United StatesÕjustification for entering the conflicts, and the outcomes of these interventions. Students work in small groups to research and present one such foreign conflict and, in round-table discussion format, compare and contrast these conflicts to each other and to the United StatesÕ current military actions against and support for economic sanctions against Iraq. 
Author: Alison Zimbalist, The New York Times Learning Network
 

International Conflict and the Media
http://www.globaled.org/
curriculum/cm0.html#
fromcm5.html
Here are 24 activities investigating the role of the media in government and conflict. The Persian Gulf War is the focus of the examination of the realtionship between the press, public perception of the conflict, and the resultant influence on U.S. policy. This is a very important topic citizenship in the media age. 
Author: Andrew Smith

1. Discuss the establishment of the United Nations and International Declaration of Human Rights, International Monetary Fund, World Bank, and General Agreement on
Tariffs and Trade (GATT) and their importance in shaping modern Europe and maintaining peace and international order.

2. Understand the role of military alliances, including NATO and SEATO, in deterring
communist aggression and maintaining security during the Cold War.
3. Trace the origins and geopolitical consequences (foreign and domestic) of the Cold War and containment policy, including the following:
ï The era of McCarthyism, instances of domestic Communism (e.g., Alger Hiss) and
blacklisting
ï The Truman Doctrine
ï The Berlin Blockade
ï The Korean War
ï The Bay of Pigs invasion and the Cuban Missile Crisis
ï Atomic testing in the American West, the ìmutual assured destructionî doctrine,
and disarmament policies
ï The Vietnam War
ï Latin American policy
4. List the effects of foreign policy on domestic policies and vice versa (e.g., protests
during the war in Vietnam, the ìnuclear freezeî movement).
5. Analyze the role of the Reagan administration and other factors in the victory of the
West in the Cold War.
6. Describe U.S. Middle East policy and its strategic, political, and economic interests,
including those related to the Gulf War.
7. Examine relations between the United States and Mexico in the twentieth century,
including key economic, political, immigration, and environmental issues.