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1. CIA and the Vietnam Policymakers: Three Episodes 1962-1968
   Evaluates the role of American intelligence in the decision to escalate the American role in the Vietnam conflict, one of the actual wars fought by Americans during the Cold War. Covers the period from 1961 to 1968.
   http: //cia.gov/csi/books/vietnam/index.html
   
   
2. Cold War Exile: The Unclosed Case of Maurice Halperin
   In 1953, Maurice Halperin was called before the Senate Internal Security Subcommittee to defend himself on charges of espionage. The Cold War was in full force and McCarthyism was at its peak. Caught up in the rapids of history, Halperin's life spun out of control.
   http: //system.missouri.edu/upress/spring1995/k...
   
   
3. Cold War: Politics and Social Attitudes
   A discussion of the Cold War and its impact in shaping American politics and policy and its effects on American society and social attitudes.
   http: //library.thinkquest.org/3266/index.html
   
   
4. DOE Openness: Human Radiation Experiments
   The Office of Human Radiation Experiments, established in March 1994, leads the Department of Energy's efforts to tell the agency's Cold War story of radiation research using human subjects.
   http: //ohre.doe.gov/
   
   
5. Essay on Teaching the Conflicts
   An essay by Alan Filreis about the way McCarthyism and anti-Communism of the 1950s continues to affect cultural and social debates in America today. Thoroughly researched and referenced.
   http: //english.upenn.edu/~afilreis/graff.html
   
   
6. From Sputnik to National Defense Education Act: The Changing Role of Science Dur
   An article on the impact of the Soviet Union's launching of Sputnik 1, the first artificial Earth satellite, on American American science, technology, and education policies in the 1950s and the 1960s.
   http: //people.fas.harvard.edu/~gmoritz/papers/...
   
   
7. John Kennedy and the Cold War
   A discussion of John F. Kennedy as Cold Warrior, his belief in communist expansionism, and his role in escalating American involvement in Vietnam.
   http: //mcadams.posc.mu.edu/progjfk5.htm
   
   

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