- How Stuff Works - History - Who Won The Cold War?
- How Stuff Works - History - General Cold War History
- How Stuff Works - History - The Cold War: October 1951-1991
- History Learning Site - The Cold War
- Fact Monster - Cold War
- NeoK12 - Educational Videos, Lessons and Games - Cold War
- Fact Monster - History - Cold War
- Buzzle.com - Cold War
- The Canadian Encyclopedia - Cold War
- History Learning Site - Cold War Concise account of Titan II missile and Titan Missile Museum in Arizona, U.S. Includes rare pictures and videos.
- The Library of Congress - Revelations from the Russian ArchivesExhibit of the previously confidential documents from the U.S.S.R. Features documents on antireligious campaigns, attacks on the intelligentsia, the Stalinist era, Chernobyl, perestroika, and the Cold War.
Britannica Web Sites
Articles from Britannica encyclopedias for elementary and high school students.
- Cold War - Children's Encyclopedia (Ages 8-11)
After World War II the United States and the Soviet Union were the superpowers of the world. They became rivals as they each sought to prevent the other from gaining too much power. The period of tension that existed between them came to be known as the Cold War. Although the conflict did not result in actual war between the two countries, it did lead to a number of smaller wars.
- Cold War - Student Encyclopedia (Ages 11 and up)
In 1946 Sir Winston Churchill gave an address on foreign affairs at Westminster College in Fulton, Mo. In it he uttered this ominous sentence: "From Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Adriatic, an iron curtain has descended across the Continent [of Europe]." These words marked the beginning of the Cold War. The term was first used again by American financier Bernard Baruch in a congressional debate in 1947, and it may be defined as a condition of competition, tension, and conflict short of actual war between the Soviet Union and the United States. The startling and rapid political changes in the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe in 1989 brought the Cold War to an end. (See also glasnost and perestroika.)