1950’S LINKS

GENERAL CIVIL RIGHTS COLD WAR MCCARTHYISM KOREAN WAR

GENERAL SITES

American History- 1950-1959 http://www.nhmccd.edu/contracts/lrc/kc/decade50.html

Facts about this decade

Rewind the Fifties http://www.loti.com/

Links to many 50’s fads.

WWW-VL: History; USA 1950-1969 http://www.ukans.edu/history/VL/USA/ERAS/20TH/1950s.html

Links to approximately 200 web sites on 1950’s history.

The Literature & Culture of the American 1950’s http://www.english.upenn.edu/~afilreis/50s/home.html

COLD WAR

CNN Cold War http://www.cnn.com/SPECIALS/cold.war/ CNN Online presents the Cold War from its beginning during

the early 20^th century through the 1980’s. Interactive maps, archival footage, read recently declassified documents.

Cold War http://www.pjhealy.com/coldwar/ Eassy by a past student from Purdue University about the Cold

War. Includes Yalta & Hiroshima, Domestic and Foreign Policy, Arms Race and more.

Cold War Studies at Kansas State University: Documents http://www.ksu.edu/history/coldwar/colddocs.htm Includes

Eisenhower, Truman addresses and Churchill’s Iron Curtin Speech and the Marshal Plan

Cold War: MAD http://www.cnn.com/SPECIALS/cold.war/episodes/12/

Julius and Ethel Rosenberg http://foia.fbi.gov/foiaindex/foiaindex_r.htm This site presents the case of the Rosenberg’s who

were found to be Soviet spies in America.

Nazi and East German Propaganda http://www.calvin.edu/academic/cas/gpa/

View propaganda created by the Nazis before and during World War II and by the East Germans during the Cold War.

MCCARTHYISM

Blacklist http://www.moderntimes.com/palace/blacklist.htm Anti-Communism at its height led to the creation of the Blacklist

which listed public personalities whose political loyalties were questionable.

The Fight for America: Senator Joseph McCarthy http://mccarthy.cjb.net/ Learn about McCarthy’s lie and McCarthyism

effort.

McCarthyism http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/USAred.htm Learn about how anti-communism grew in the early part

of the 20^th century up through McCarthyism of the 1950s. Discover info. about communist spies, historic Court cases,

investigators, informers, blacklisted people, etc.

The Age of McCarthyism: A brief history with Documents http://www.english.upenn.edu/~afilreis/50s/schrecker-age.html

About McCarthyism http://www.english.uiuc.edu/maps/mccarthy/mccarthy.htm

Senator Joseph McCarthy—A multimedia Celebration http://www.webcorp.com/mccarthy/mccarthypage.htm A multimedia

exhibit on Senator McCarthy and McCarthisym

“The Crucible” and McCarthyism http://projects:edtech.sandi.net/hoover/cruicible/

American Masters: McCarthyism/PBS http://www.pbs.org/wnet/americanmasters/database/mccarthyism.html Paranoid hunt

] for infiltrators was notoriously difficult on writers and entertainers, many of whom we labeled communist.

KOREAN WAR

Korean War Project http://www.Koreanwar.org/ A non-profit corp devoted to study of the KoreanWar which includes

photographs, recollections.

Examining the Korean War http://mcel.pacificu.edu/as/students/stanley/home.html

Resources for research

The Korean War http://www.korean-war.com/ Includes War Time Line, Air War Chronology, Special Operations

Information.

THE 1960’S

Civil Rights Cold War Martin Luther King, Jr.

Apollo Space Program John F. Kennedy Vietnam War

Cuban Missile Crisis

General Resources

Yahoo! Directory 20^th century history – 1960’s http://dir.yahoo.com/Arts/Humanities/History/By_Time_Period/20th_Century?1960s/

WWW-VL: HISTORY:USA 1960-1969 http://www.ukans.edu/history/VL/USA/ERAS/20TH/1960s.html an excellent collection of links.

American Cultural History 1960-1969—Kingwood College Library http://www.nhmccd.edu/contracts/lrc/kc/decade60.html

The Sixties Project http://lists.village.virginia.edu/sixties/ a collection of documents from the 1960s with an emphasis on Vietnam

Google Web Directory 1960’s http://directory.google.com/Top/Society/History/By_Time_Period/Twentieth_Century/1960s Contains about 200 links.

CIVIL RIGHTS

American Civil Liberties Union http://www.aclu.org/ The official Web page for the ACLU—the organization which is the nation’s leading advocate of individual rights.

American Civil Rights Institute http://www.acri.org/ This is a national organization which was organized in order to educate the public about racial and gender preferences.

Beyond the Playing Field: Jackie Robinson, Civil Rights Advocate http://www.archives.gov/digital_classroom/lessons/jackie_robinson/jackie_robinson.html The National Archives and Records Administration provides insight into Jackie Robinson off the field.

“To Serve the People” http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/calheritage/panthers/ The Black Panther Party’s Struggle for Social Change. This site presents history and information about the Black Panther Party’s activities, their accomplishments and programs that they

offer.

Black Panther Party http://www.bobyseale.com/phototour/ Historic photos and some info. about the Black Panthers.

Little Rock Central High 40^th Anniversary http://www.centralhigh57.org/ Information about the nine African-American

students who participated in the desegregation of their school back in the late 1950s.You can read the high school’s student

newspaper, or see historic video clips of that historic day.

National Civil Rights Museum: Virtual Tour http://www.mecca.org/~crights/cyber.html

Short History of American Civil Rights Laws http://www.withylaw.com/history.htm

Speeches http://www.nps.gov/malu/documents/speeches_toc.htm Full text of speeches supporting civil rights, from 1849-to

the present.

Voices of the Civil Rights Era http://www.webcorp.com/civilrights/index.htm Speeches by John F. Kennedy, Malcolm X and

Martin Luther King

We Shall Overcome: Historic Places of the Civil Rights Movement http://www.cr.nps.gov/nr/travel/civilrights/ This site is