Cold War Supplemental Learning Materials (Not required for the exam)

Due to the volume of materials, this Cold War supplemental learning materials provides audio, video, and print materials.

Struggle for Peace and Human Rights

• Eleanor Roosevelt, The Struggle for Human Rights Speech (PDF Transcript)

• Eleanor Roosevelt Speech Transcript on the Human Rights Declaration (PDF Transcript)

• Sir Winston Churchill, Sinews of Peace Speech (Iron Curtain) (PDF Transcript)

• Sir Winston Churchill, Sinews of Peace Speech (Iron Curtain) (Audio)

• President Eisenhower, "Atoms for Peace" Speech (PDF Transcript)

• President Eisenhower, "Atoms for Peace" Speech (Audio)

• Geoghegan, Atomic Airships: Peaceful use of Atomic Power (PDF)

• General Marshall, The Marshall Plan for Recovery in Europe Speech (PDF Transcript)

• General Marshall, The Marshall Plan for Recovery in Europe Speech (Audio)

• President Johnson, The Great Society speech (PDF Transcript)

• Dr. Martin Luther King, I Have a Dream speech (PDF Transcript)

Spying Among Former WWII Allies

• The Nazis Next Door: How America Became a Safe Haven for Hitler’s Men (PDF)

• Kross, Oleg Penkovsky U.S. Spy Against the Soviets (PDF)

• Kross, The Venona Project: Soviet Spies in the U.S. (PDF)

• Packett, Gary Powers and the U2 Spy Plane Incident (Audio)

• Matt's Today in History, The SL-1 Accident in 1961 (Audio)

• Khrushchev Demands an Apology (Audio)

Threat of World-Wide Nuclear War (World War Three)

• President Truman, The Truman Doctrine Speech (PDF Transcript)

• President Truman, The Truman Doctrine Speech (Audio)

• Younger, MADness: Doctrine of Mutually Assured Destruction (PDF)

• Packett, Strategic Nukes and Tactical Nukes (PDF Transcript)

• Great Britain's Program to Develop Their Own Atomic Bomb (Audio)

• U.S. Grand Strategy During the Cold War (Audio)

• Reliance Upon TRIAD for Nuclear War Deterrence (Audio)

• President Reagan, Speech in which he calls the USSR the "Evil empire" (PDF Transcript)

• Duck and Cover Training to Survive Nuclear Attack (Video)

• U.S. Nimitz-Class Aircraft Carrier (Video)

• The Legacy of the Atomic Testing and Fallout (Audio)

• The Nuclear Club of Nations (Audio)

• TRIAD and Deterrence (Audio)

Hot Spots for the Cold War

• North Korea is Stopped (Audio)

• The Korean War: The Red Wave Rolls South (Audio)

• The Berlin Wall Goes Up (Audio)

• Trying to Escape the Berlin Wall (Audio)

• Military History, Fall of the Berlin Wall (PDF)

Cold War Case Study: The Vietnam Conflict

• The Cold War in Southeast Asia (Audio)

• Early Conflict in Vietnam (Audio)

• Fall of Saigon (Audio)

• President Johnson, Vietnam and Not Seeking Reelection (PDF Transcript)

• President Johnson, Vietnam and Not Seeking Reelection (Audio)

• President Nixon, Cambodian Incursion Speech to American People (PDF Transcript)

• President Nixon, Cambodian Incursion Speech to American People (Audio)

Other Resources Related to Cold War Conflict

• Free Speech During the Cold War (Audio)

• A is for Atom: Propaganda Film Promoting Peaceful Uses of Atomic Energy (Video)

• Destination Earth: Peaceful Uses of Atomic Energy Sponsored by Major Oil Company (Video)