CNN - Cold War: Knowledge Bank

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Profiles written by Nancy L. Meyers,
Ruud van Dijk and Christian Ostermann
of the Cold War International History Project

ICBM? Comecon? Look it up here

• An interactive timeline of flashpoints

• A geographic view of the Cold War battlelines from Berlin to Vietnam.

• Read declassified documents from the archives of the East and West.

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• Cold War International History Project
archival documents
• The National Security Archive
declassified U.S. government documents

Comrades	Germany: Buchenwald prison camp (IPIX)
Iron Curtain	Poland: Warsaw military museum (IPIX)
Berlin	Germany: Berlin's Templehof Airport (IPIX)
Korea	Korea: Panmunjom Truce Village (QTVR) Washington: America's Korean War Memorial (IPIX)
Reds	Washington: Army-McCarthy hearing room (IPIX)
After Stalin	Budapest: Hotspots of 1956 Hungarian revolt
Sputnik	Houston: Mission Control \ NASA "Rocket Garden" (IPIX)
The Wall	Berlin: Checkpoint Charlie (Requires Java)
Cuba	Havana: Museum of the Revolution (QTVR)
MAD	Titan Missile Control Room: Inside a nuclear launch facility (IPIX)
Make Love, Not War	The National Mall: War on the Home Front (IPIX)
Red Spring	Wenceslas Square, the heart of the "Prague Spring" (QTVR)
China	Tiananmen Square (QTVR) / The Great Wall (IPIX)
Détente	Poland: Abandoned Soviet air base (IPIX)
Backyard	Palacio de La Moneda: Site of the 1973 coup (QTVR)
Spies	Inside Langley: Enter the CIA's world headquarters (IPIX)
Star Wars	Moscow: Red Square, the center of Soviet history (IPIX)
Conclusions	A Russian submarine on display (IPIX)