Modern Period

Cold War Links:

The Alger Hiss Spy Case - In 1948, Alger Hiss was accused of being part of a Communist group trying to infiltrate the U.S. government. Hiss vehemently denied the charge before the House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC). Despite defenders in high places, Hiss was eventually convicted and sent to prison.

The Cold War International History Project - Disseminates new information and perspectives on the history of
the Cold War as it emerges from previously inaccessible sources on “the other side” -- the former Communist world. 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.

Cold War Links on the Internet - Links provided by Steve Schoenherr, professor of history. Excellent and thorough listing.

Cold War Policies, 1945-1991 - A listing of sites for Mr. Atcheson's junior honor's class.

CNN Interactive: Cold War Experience - To complement CNN's Cold War documentary series, CNN Interactive has created the most comprehensive online site ever produced for a television documentary. CNN Interactive editors traveled to Berlin, Budapest, Prague, Warsaw, and to America's Cold War heartland (CO, N.M., Nev., CA) and also scoured film libraries and a variety of historical archival resources to construct what is arguably the most thorough and multimedia-intense online record of Cold War history. Another CNN site relates the story of an 87 year-old British great-grandmother KGB spy. (see additional links at end of article)

Several sites refer to the Rosenberg Trial of 1951 when Julius Rosenberg and his wife, Ethel, were arrested on charges they had passed sensitive U.S. nuclear weaponry secrets to the Soviets. They were convicted and put to death for violating the Espionage Act. The "Red Scare" of the 1950s also included accused spies T. Hall, R. Oppenheimer, and K. Fuchs. The site "Cracking the KGB Code" relates the efforts that went into deciphering the cables sent between the Moscow and New York KGB offices. (Go also to the National Security Archives to see declassified documents on-line)