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The Cold War Experience

http://www.cnn.com/SPECIALS/cold.war/

Provider: CNN

About this resource

Appropriate grades
6–12
Subjects
social studies (Europe, United States history, world history)
Provider
CNN
Special requirements
Windows Media, IPIX, Cult 3-D and ShockWave are required for portions of the site. Plug-ins are free of charge and accessible through this website.

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The Cold War Experience is the online companion to a television documentary series from CNN and contains over 1000 webpages. There are 24 episodes that span a five decade period beginning with World War I and ending with the fall of the Berlin Wall and the end of the Soviet Union. Each of these episodes contains a vast amount of educational materials to help students learn about the many aspects of The Cold War.

For example, Episode One, entitled "Comrades: 1917-1945" includes:

  • An episode recap and transcript
  • An Online Spotlight that looks at the Katyn Massace and why the Western powers overlooked this wartime atrocity
  • A Then and Now look at Greenbrier, a Congressional nuclear fallout shelter that has become an eerie tourist attraction
  • Interactive images of such places as Buchenwald, a Cold War prison, and Poland's Katyn massacre memorial
  • Interactive maps showing Cold War battlelines
  • Archival footage of The Grand Alliance at the War's end
  • Historical documents
  • Interviews
  • Message boards for sharing thoughts about the issues raised by this Cold War segment