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David Hilton

Cold War International History Project : Documents : The Vassiliev Notebooks - 10 views

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    The Project supports the full and prompt release of historical materials by governments on all sides of the Cold War, and seeks to accelerate the process of integrating new sources, materials and perspectives from the former "Communist bloc" with the historiography of the Cold War which has been written over the past few decades largely by Western scholars reliant on Western archival sources. It also seeks to transcend barriers of language, geography, and regional specialization to create new links among scholars interested in Cold War history.
Nate Merrill

The Origins of the Cold War, 1945-1949 - 3 views

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    "The Origins of the Cold War, 1945-1949 (3 Lessons)" EDSITEment
Nate Merrill

Thirteen Days Movie Lesson - 7 views

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    Topics: U.S./1945 - 1991; World/Russia; Cuban Missile Crisis; Cold War;
Nate Merrill

The Origins of the Cold War, 1945-1949 - 13 views

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    EDSITEment
David Hilton

CIA FOIA - Overview - 4 views

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    The Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) electronic reading room of the American Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) offers several primary source collections for the study of Central and Eastern Europe during and after the Cold War period. The FOIA Electronic Reading Room web site was established by the CIA "to provide the public with an overview of access to CIA information, including electronic access to previously released documents." Direct web access to the following collections is now possible: # The Soviet and Warsaw Pact Military Journals is a PDF collection of "sensitive Soviet and Warsaw Pact military journals from 1961 to 1984 providing a view into Warsaw Pact military strategy". # Preparing for Martial Law: Through the Eyes of Colonel Ryszard Kuklinski is "a captivating collection of over 75 documents concerning the planning and implementation martial law in Poland from mid-1980 to late 1981. The collection release coincided with a CIA symposium honouring Colonel Ryszard Kuklinski, a member of the Polish Army General Staff and the source of the documents."
  • David Hilton on 16 Dec 09
     
    Seems to focus especially on the Cold War. Definitely one for the conspirary theorists.
mcaplan0

Winston Churchill's Iron Curtain Speech - 11 views

The edsitement website is most useful - not only for the Cold War but for many other topic - thanks Joseph

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Michael Sheehan

Learning Never Stops - 10 views

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    The Digital Comic Museum features comics from the 1930's to the 1950's. They can be used to show American culture from that period and many comics from that era are good examples of propaganda from WWII and the Cold War
Nate Merrill

Postwar Politics and the Origins of the Cold War - 8 views

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    The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History
Van Weringh

BBC - GCSE Bitesize: Causes of the Cold War Activity - 6 views

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    The BBC is so good at providing quality History resources. Here is another one; a must see for students who are about to study the Cold War
David Hilton

Cold War International History Project : - 0 views

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    I've found this to be a great source of information on the Cold War, and they have an email newsletter (which makes it easy to keep up with news, etc).
David Hilton

The Cold War Museum - 1 views

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    There isn't a whole lot of valuable source material at this site that I could find, but it has a large amount of links to other sites which would be useful for research or activities in the Cold War.
Ed Webb

Modern art was CIA 'weapon' - World, News - The Independent - 6 views

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  • The Central Intelligence Agency used American modern art - including the works of such artists as Jackson Pollock, Robert Motherwell, Willem de Kooning and Mark Rothko - as a weapon in the Cold War. In the manner of a Renaissance prince - except that it acted secretly - the CIA fostered and promoted American Abstract Expressionist painting around the world for more than 20 years.
  • in the propaganda war with the Soviet Union, this new artistic movement could be held up as proof of the creativity, the intellectual freedom, and the cultural power of the US. Russian art, strapped into the communist ideological straitjacket, could not compete.
  • The decision to include culture and art in the US Cold War arsenal was taken as soon as the CIA was founded in 1947. Dismayed at the appeal communism still had for many intellectuals and artists in the West, the new agency set up a division, the Propaganda Assets Inventory, which at its peak could influence more than 800 newspapers, magazines and public information organisations. They joked that it was like a Wurlitzer jukebox: when the CIA pushed a button it could hear whatever tune it wanted playing across the world.
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  • Initially, more open attempts were made to support the new American art. In 1947 the State Department organised and paid for a touring international exhibition entitled "Advancing American Art", with the aim of rebutting Soviet suggestions that America was a cultural desert. But the show caused outrage at home, prompting Truman to make his Hottentot remark and one bitter congressman to declare: "I am just a dumb American who pays taxes for this kind of trash." The tour had to be cancelled.
  • This philistinism, combined with Joseph McCarthy's hysterical denunciations of all that was avant-garde or unorthodox, was deeply embarrassing. It discredited the idea that America was a sophisticated, culturally rich democracy. It also prevented the US government from consolidating the shift in cultural supremacy from Paris to New York since the 1930s.
  • If any official institution was in a position to celebrate the collection of Leninists, Trotskyites and heavy drinkers that made up the New York School, it was the CIA.
  • Moscow in those days was very vicious in its denunciation of any kind of non-conformity to its own very rigid patterns. And so one could quite adequately and accurately reason that anything they criticised that much and that heavy- handedly was worth support one way or another
  • As president of what he called "Mummy's museum", Rockefeller was one of the biggest backers of Abstract Expressionism (which he called "free enterprise painting"). His museum was contracted to the Congress for Cultural Freedom to organise and curate most of its important art shows. The museum was also linked to the CIA by several other bridges. William Paley, the president of CBS broadcasting and a founding father of the CIA, sat on the members' board of the museum's International Programme. John Hay Whitney, who had served in the agency's wartime predecessor, the OSS, was its chairman. And Tom Braden, first chief of the CIA's International Organisations Division, was executive secretary of the museum in 1949.
  • "It was very difficult to get Congress to go along with some of the things we wanted to do - send art abroad, send symphonies abroad, publish magazines abroad. That's one of the reasons it had to be done covertly. It had to be a secret. In order to encourage openness we had to be secret."
  • Would Abstract Expressionism have been the dominant art movement of the post-war years without this patronage? The answer is probably yes. Equally, it would be wrong to suggest that when you look at an Abstract Expressionist painting you are being duped by the CIA. But look where this art ended up: in the marble halls of banks, in airports, in city halls, boardrooms and great galleries. For the Cold Warriors who promoted them, these paintings were a logo, a signature for their culture and system which they wanted to display everywhere that counted. They succeeded.
David Hilton

Cold War International History Project : Documents : - 5 views

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    A growing collection of primary source documents on the Cold War from the American perspective.
Nate Merrill

The Formation of the Western Alliance, 1948-1949 - 2 views

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    "THE ORIGINS OF THE COLD WAR, 1945-1949 Lesson 3: The Formation of the Western Alliance, 1948-1949"
Michael Sheehan

Learning Never Stops: Vintage Propaganda Posters- Two Great Resources - 15 views

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    World War II and Cold War.
David Hilton

CWIHP Virtual Archive : Collection - 2 views

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  • David Hilton on 29 Aug 09
     
    An excellent resource for the Cold War! Clearly labelled and well-maintained links to primary source documents. Just what we like!
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