Space Race: What Prompted the United States to Venture into Space? History in Dispute Ed. Robert J. Allison. Vol. 2: American Social and Political Movements, 1945-2000: Pursuit of Liberty. Detroit: St. James Press, 2000. p241-248.COPYRIGHT 2000 St. James Press, COPYRIGHT 2007 Gale
"The Space Race and the Cold War" Science and Its Times Ed. Neil Schlager and Josh Lauer. Vol. 7: 1950 to Present. Detroit: Gale, 2001. p13-16. COPYRIGHT 2001 Gale Group, COPYRIGHT 2005 Gale
Space Race An online exhibit by the Smithsonian National Air Space Museum
US Reaction to Sputnik
A Blow to the Nation by Paul Dickson - NOVA
Primary Sources
Memorandum from Ken Mansfield, "Intercontinental Ballistic Rocket Program" (March 27, 1954).
Letter from J.R. Killian, Jr. to Dwight D. Eisenhower (March 8, 1958).
Memorandum from Lawrence McQuade to Paul Nitze, "But Where Did the Missile Gap Go?" (May 31, 1963).
Battlefield Vietnam: A Brief History
Warsaw Pact
Cold War History Project: Warsaw Pact housed at The Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars
NATO
Topic Overview and Background Information
The Development of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) via the The Harry S. Truman Library and Museum which includes links to primary source documents
Cuban Missile Crisis Cold War Reference Library Ed. Richard C. Hanes, Sharon M. Hanes, and Lawrence W. Baker. Vol. 2: Almanac Volume 2. Detroit: UXL, 2004. p213-232.COPYRIGHT 2004 U*X*L, COPYRIGHT 2006 Gale
Primary Sources
Nikita Khrushchev's to President Kenney
Documents related to the Cuban Missile Crisis made available on the National Security Agency website
The Cuban Missle Crisis via The National Security Archive
Memorandum from Joint Chiefs of Staff to Robert McNamara, "Cuba" (April 10, 1962).
Memorandum of Project Mongoose Meeting (October 4, 1962).
Memorandum by Theodore Sorenson, [Objections to U.S. Airstrike on Cuba] (October 20, 1962).
Notes by Robert McNamara on Meeting with John Kennedy (October 21, 1962).
Sources from the Gale Virtual Library
Vietnam Online via PBS
The Nation: The My Lai Massacre via Time Magazine
eXplorations: The Vietnam War as History Primary Sources compiled by Digital History
The Anitiwar Movement compiled by Digital History
Anti-war Movement in the United States published from The Oxford Companion to American Military History posted by University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Antiwar and Radical History Project – Pacific Northwest via Harry Bridges Center for Labor Studies
Military Resources: Bay of Pigs Invasion & Cuban Missile Crisis via the National Archives
Bay of Pigs: 40 years after The National Security Archive site provides a thorough history of the Bay of Pigs invasion with links to full-text documents and audio recordings.
The CIA's Internal Probe of the Bay of Pigs Affair
Created by Michael Warner, this CIA website focuses on the CIA inquiry into the government's handling of the Cuban Bay of Pigs operation.