The Red Scare: A Digital Library Experience

Author: CNN Interactive

Subject: Cold War--Daily Life

Media Type: Audio 

Format: Windows Media

Summary: A musical exerpt of "99 Luftballoons" by Nena and "Russians" by Sting, two pop/rock songs that talk about the Cold War.

Extent: various playing times

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Author: British Control Commision for Germany

Subject: Cold War--Berlin

Media Type: Video

Format: Java

Summary: An introductory overview of the reasons why the Berlin Air Lift happened and how.

Extent: 10 minutes, 13 seconds

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Author: Berlin Wall Online

Subject: Cold War--Berlin Wall

Media Type: Photographs

Summary: Over 100 photographs show the Berlin Wall through the 1950s up to the present. 

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Author: All Things Considered (NPR)

Subject: Cold War--Berlin 

Media Type: Audio

Format: RealPlayer

Summary: Interviews 4 former East Berliners of how life has changed in the past 10 years.

Extent: 22 minutes

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Author: CNN

Subject: Cold War--Berlin Wall

Media Type: Video

Format: VXtreme

Summary: Berliners are having a hard time trying to save a wall they fought to tear down.

Extent: 2 minutes, 10 seconds

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Author: NetGate Publishing Ltd.

Subject: Cold War--Berlin Wall

Media Type: Interactive Photograph

Summary: Gives the viewer a 360 degree view of the famous checkpoint between East and West Berlin.

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Author: All Things Considered (NPR)

Subject: Cold War--McCarthyism

Media Type: Audio

Format: WindowsMedia

Summary: Transcripts from two closed door interview sessions--Langston Hughes and Aaron Copland have been released.

Extent: approximately 15 minutes.

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Author: The Cold War and Communism (ABC News)

Subject: Cold War

Media Type: Video

Format: RealPlayer

Summary: A overview of the early period of Cold War tensions with footage of war torn Europe, the announcement of the Truman Doctrine, the Marshall Plan, and the Soviet blockade of West Berlin that led to the formation of NATO. 

Extent: 3 minutes, 13 seconds

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Author: Weekend Edition (NPR)

Subject: Cold War--Esponiage

Media Type: Audio

Format: WindowsMedia

Summary: The National Archives says records of how much money the CIA received from Congress from 1946 to 1970 are missing. Researchers are annoyed, fearing a loss of important historical information.

Extent: Approximately 7 minutes

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Author: National Security Archive

Subject: Cold War-Cuban Missile Crisis

Media Type: Photographs

Summary: Provides the arial photos used by the Kennedy administration during the Cuban Missle Crisis.

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Website Author: CONELRAD

Subject: Cold War--Daily Life, Cold War--Nuclear Blast

Media Type: Posters

Summary: Has an assortment of print public service announcments and posters designed to inform the average citizen of what to do in the event of an atomic blast.

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Author: Archer Productions

Subject: Cold War--Daily Life, Cold War--Nuclear Blast

Media Type: Video

Format: QuickTime

Summary: A 1950s short film telling schoolchildren what to do if an atomic bomb should explode.

Extent: 9 minutes, 14 seconds

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Author: NOVA (PBS)

Subject: Cold War--Espionage

Media Type: Video

Format: QuickTime

Summary: Gives a family member's perspective of the most notorious atomic spies of the Cold War.

Extent: various playing times

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Author: Ministry of Information

Subject: Cold War--Daily Life, Cold War--Nuclear Blast

Media Type: Poster

Summary: A 1965 poster explaining informing people about the hydrogen bomb and the civil defense. 

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Author: John F. Kennedy

Subject: Cold War--John F. Kennedy, Cold War--Berlin Wall

Media Type: Audio

Format: RealPlayer

Summary: The famous speech delivered by President Kennedy in the shadow of the Berlin Wall in 1963.

Extent: Approximately 7 minutes

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Author: Ernest May and Philip Zelikow, editors

Subject: Cold War--Cuban Missile Crises, Cold War--John F. Kennedy

Media Type: Audio

Format: RealPlayer

Summary: Eight different audio exerpts from the White House during the height of the Cuban Missile Crisis.

Extent: various playing times

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Author: MSN Encarta

Subject: Cold War--Cuban Missle Crisis, Cold War--John F. Kennedy

Media Type: Video

Format: WindowsMedia

Summary: An exerpt of a speech President Kennedy addressed to the nation during the Cuban Missile Crisis.

Extent: 8 seconds

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Author: American Experience: Race for the Superbomb (PBS)

Subject: Cold War--Nuclear Blast

Media Type: Video

Format: QuickTime

Summary: Actual footage of a nuclear blast testing on the typical American home. 

Extent: 6 seconds

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Author: CNN Interactive

Subject: Cold War--Daily Life

Media Type: Video

Format: Quicktime

Summary: Four exerpts from movies showcasing the Cold War relationship between the Soviet Union and the United States.

Extent: Approximately 20 seconds each

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Author: American Experience: Race for the Superbomb (PBS)

Subject: Cold War--Nuclear Blast

Media Type: 360 degree photographs

Format: QuickTime VR

Summary: A virtual tour of the top-secret underground bunker in the mountains of West Virginia that was maintained by the government during the Cold War. The facility was designed to house the members of the House of Representatives and the Senate in case of nuclear attack.

Extent: 8 interactive photographs

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Author: All Things Considered (NPR)

Subject: Cold War-McCarthyism

Media Type: Audio

Format: WindowsMedia

Summary: Cronkite discusses a program he hosted in the 1950s, which covered historical events.  All the writers were victums of the McCarthy-era blacklist and made thinly disguised points about contemporary witch hunts.

Author: Universal Newsreel

Subject: Cold War--Yalta Conference, Cold War--Joseph Stalin, Cold War--Franklin D. Roosevelt, Cold War--Winston Churchill

Media Type: Video

Format: QuickTime

Summary: An overview of the Yalta Conference, what many consider the beginning of the Cold War.

Extent: Approximately 5 minutes

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