Cuban Missile Crisis, 1962

http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/nsa/publications/cmc/cmc.html

Rating: 1, Awesome!

Description: This is an overview of the Cuban Missile Crisis from the National Security Archive. It includes a chronology, photos and a description of the event and its background. Also included are student questions. Standards 10.9.3 and 11.9.3

Resource Type: Mix of Text and Graphics.

Graphics content: High.

Resource ID: 852

European Recovery 50th Anniversary of the Marshall Plan

http://lcweb.loc.gov/exhibits/marshall/

Rating: 1, Awesome!

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. Standards 10.9.3 and 11.7.8

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.

Resource ID: 1128

Investigating Vietnam

http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/vietnam.html

Rating: 1, Awesome!

Description: This is a great Vietnam War web site from England. There are timelines, interviews, biographies, photos, personal war accounts, background information, and historical narratives. Standards 10.9.3, 11.9.3 and 11.9.4

Resource Type: Mix of Text and Graphics.

Graphics content: Low.

Resource ID: 1765

Korean War + 50: No Longer Forgotten

http://www.trumanlibrary.org/korea/index.html

Rating: 1, Awesome!

Description: View the documents and the steps involved in Truman's decision to enter and then hold the line in the Korean War. Accounts from Dean Acheson, Harry Truman, and Douglas MacArthur are featured. Standards 10.9.3 and 11.9.3

Comments: This site is part of the Truman Library but also links to the Eisenhower Library.

Resource Type: Primary Source Text.

Graphics content: High.

Resource ID: 1898

Truman Library

http://www.trumanlibrary.org/lifetimes/index.html

Rating: 1, Awesome!

Description: Here is a wonderful collection of online exhibits including: World War II American propaganda posters, t he recogniion of Israel, desegregation of the armed services, the 1948 campaign, and love letters from Truman to Bess. Other themes are being developed and updated. Standard 10.9.3, 10.9.6, 11.9.3, and 11.10.1

Comments: This site is written and maintained by the Truman Library.

Resource Type: Mix of Text and Graphics.

Graphics content: High.

Resource ID: 3226

Vietnam Online

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/vietnam/

Rating: 1, Awesome!

Description: This well organized web site was designed to accompany the PBS series, "Vietnam, a Television History." Included on the web site is an interactive timeline, a "who's who" list of the important people, interviews, primary resource documents, articles, and reflections by people involved in the war. Standards 10.9.3, 11.9.3 and 11.9.4

Resource Type: Mix of Text and Graphics.

Graphics content: Low.

Resource ID: 3347

Vietnam-Echos of War

http://cnn.com/SPECIALS/2000/vietnam/

Rating: 1, Awesome!

Description: Vietnam is revisted by CNN 25 years after the end of the war. The web site includes information about the war, the boat people, postcard pictures of Vietnam today, photographs of the war, information on the countries on the borders of Vietnam, etc. Standards 10.9.3, 11.9.3 and 11.9.4

Resource Type: Mix of Text and Graphics.

Graphics content: High.

Resource ID: 3349

Cuba

http://cnn.com/SPECIALS/cold.war/episodes/10/

Rating: 2, High!

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. Standards 10.9.3 and 11.9.3

Comments: This is probably a temporary site.

Resource Type: Primary Source Text.

Graphics content: High.

Resource ID: 850

Cuban Missile Crisis l962

http://www.multied.com/Sixties/Cuban.html

Rating: 2, High!

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. Standards 10.9.3 and 11.9.3

Comments: Several pages of text with no additional links.

Resource Type: Secondary Text.

Graphics content: Low.

Resource ID: 851

For European Recovery: The Fiftieth Anniversary of the Marshall Plan

http://lcweb.loc.gov/exhibits/marshall/

Rating: 2, High!

Description: This Library of Congress site celebrates the fiftieth anniversary of the Marshall Plan. A timeline, news article, photographs, maps, essays and reference materials are given. Standards 10.9.3 and 11.7.8

Resource Type: Mix of Text and Graphics.

Graphics content: High.

Resource ID: 1272