IB History Year 2

This site has a very comprehensive study of the history of Argentina. Right from when there were only nomadic hunter-gatherers, to the presidential elections in 2003, this site mentions many things between that time period.

This website contains all the relevant basic information that we need to know about our nations. It details Chile's geography, their Independence, their GDP and other facts about the country. It is very helpful for discovering basic facts.

Outlines how the Cold War began to affect Chile and how Chile became a part of the Alliance for Progress. The alliance was meant as a way to keep socialistic revolutions from taking hold in Latin America. The rest of the cite is also a good insight in to cold war history all over the world.

The CIA World Factbook has several pages for all the countries. For Argentina, there are other links you can click open, and a window has information for things ranging from economy, government, and people's society. It is very general, and for the rough introductory facts about the country.

This site is similar to the CIA World Factbook: it gives a general overview of important statistics relating to Brazil, as well as a summary of its history. This is broken into four sections: Overview, Facts, Leaders, and Media. In media, it provides links to various sites and resources based in Brazil, which can provide useful information directly relating to Brazilian news and history.

The US Invasion of the Dominican Republic. This site has every bit of information needed to know about the American intervention in the Dominican republic in order to protect it from falling under communism.

This site is one of information regarding mainly event that occured during the Cold War and analyzes the role that Latino Countries played and their relation with the United states during the fight agaisnt Communism - On april 1965 US troops are sent to the Dominican Republic to fight agaisnt Communism.

The official internet portal of the Dominican Republic. General info, News, Chat, Booking Engines. This website is one dedicated only to information regarding the Dominican Republic. The counry, the culture, the people, the economy and other important facts regarding everything that must be known regarding the Republic.

This article is a journal of general facts regarding the history, including governement, political and economical crisis, the geography and people history of the country.

This scholarly source discusses the processes in which the Sandinista party came into creation and how the United States and Soviet Unions became involved in Nicaragua, in order to explore how the Nicaraguan Revolution became a proxy war during the Cold War.

This website gives an up-to-date and accurate overview of general facts on Nicaragua. It is divided into various sections in where each part addresses different aspects of the country (i.e. geography, economy, government, and general history.) Overall, through the use of statistics, the website provides purely basic and factual background information on Nicaragua.

This website consists of an interview conducted by an intern, Joey Kolker, where he asks Virginia Burnett, an Associate Professor of History, about how El Salvador's 12 year civil war reflects the proxy wars that took place during the Cold War.

The CIA World Factbook gives provides a background of significant events in the history of El Salvador, such as their independence from Spain and later their independence from the Central American Federation, as well as general facts about the government, economy, geography, etc. of the country. The information provided by this source is ideal for the introduction section of our research essay because it provides reliable facts about the country.

This website gives an overview of facts and general history regarding Brazil. It separate the information into categories (Geography, People and Society, Economy, etc), and within this section lists important statistics. It also provides written summaries of important events in Brazilian history. This site is very useful for obtaining basic information about the country without other interpretations, giving a general background to Brazil as well as current facts.

From Sean Morris, CNN Meteorologist updated 1:31 PM EST, Sat October 29, 2011 (CNN) -- Mother Nature had a little trick for the mid-Atlantic and Northeast on the Halloween weekend, bringing moderate to heavy rain and snow. The early-season snowstorm Saturday was the result of unseasonably cold air mixing with a storm system on the Eastern Seaboard. This link found on CNN is about a recent snow storm in the Mid-Atlantic States.