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Chapter 25: Cold War Politics in the Truman Years, 1945-1953

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    Baseball, the Color Line, and Jackie Robinson,
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/jrhtml/jrhome.html
"An examination of the history of the Negro leagues and the impact of Jackie Robinson on American sports and society. Part of the American Memory exhibit at the Library of Congress, the site is divided into chronological segments. It features manuscripts, photographs, books, maps, and transcripts of speeches and broadcasts, and includes a section on Robinson's efforts in the Civil Rights movement. The site also links the user to a collection of baseball photographs from the 1860s to the 1920s."*

    Cold War International History Project, http://cwihp.si.edu/default.htm
"Cold War International History Project (CWIHP) Web site from the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars. The document archives contain many previously unreleased or unpublished documents from countries on both sides of the Cold War, as well as other important documents from the post-World War II period. These documents can be searched or browsed by date, topic, author/contact, and keyword."*

    Project Whistlestop: Harry Truman, http://whistlestop.org/
"A searchable collection of images and documents from the Harry S. Truman Presidential Library. Established by Project Whistlestop, a program sponsored by the Department of Education, the site is organized into categories such as the origins of the Truman Doctrine, the Berlin Airlift, the desegregation of the armed forces, and the 1948 campaign. Users can also browse the president's correspondence."*

    Senator Joe McCarthy, http://webcorp.com/mccarthy/
"A collection of audio clips from Senator Joe McCarthy's red scare period. The site was created by webcorp, a corporate Internet services company, to demonstrate some of their technology. The site includes clips from many of McCarthy's speeches and from the televised trials."*

    The Cold War in Washington State,
"The Cold War and Red Scare in Washington State Web site, authored and designed by The Center for the Study of the Pacific Northwest. The main feature of the site is an extensive history of Washington State over the course of the twentieth century, with a focus on the Cold War and anticommunist movements in the united States. A timeline, glossary of terms, and document archive of over fifty sources supplement the history."*

    The Fiftieth Anniversary of the Marshall Plan,
http://lcweb.loc.gov/exhibits/marshall
"A documentary treatment of the origins, implementation, and long-term consequences of the Marshall Plan. Maintained by the Library of Congress, the site offers primary- and secondary-source texts that emphasize the Cold War origins of the plan. It also includes information on the various American and European responses to the plan, as well as an examination of the plan's role in the emergence of European Union."*

    The Rosenbergs: A Case of Love, Espionage, Deceit and Betrayal
http://crimelibrary.com/rosen/rosenmain.htm
"A detailed account of the Rosenberg case."*