20th Century History By the Decades
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20th Century: 1950-1959 Decade
- The
Fifties Links
- Links gathered on the 1950s.
- 50's
Postwar America
- Chapter of the book: Outline of American History, on The Fifties.
- Readings In
The American 1950S
- Large set of well-organized links to resources related to the culture
and politics of the 1950's. Lots of primary materials and personal
observations of the events and issues.
-
The Beat Begins
- Online course resources for The Fifties, out of the University of
Minnesota. Includes sections on general information, plus Literary,
Music, Movies, Consumer Culture, Science and Technology, and more!
- Literature
for The American 1950s
- Extensive collection of links to articles, writings, photograps and
literature on and from the Fifties decade.
- The Howl/Drive Project
- An examination of the poetry (Howl) and influences of a Fifties "Beat
Generation" poet, Allen Ginsberg, and compares it to a Nineties poet,
Mike Henry (Drive).
- Literary Kicks
- All about the Fifties "Beat Generation" writers. An excellent
collection of links as part of an extended essay.
- The Fifties: The
Golden Age of Television
- The Fifties is known as the Golden Age of Television in large part
because of the variety shows which dominated the early part of the
decade. Variety was to the early Fifties what the Western was to the late
Fifties.
- The Fifties
- Explores the culture of the Fifties Decade (music, TV, etc.).
- Main
Events of the Eisenhower Presidency,
1953-61
- A brief, but helpful timeline which identifies the major events of
this era.
- The Fifties at a
Nuclear Laboratory
- Glory Days is the title of this chapter in the life of Oak Ridge
National Laboratory, a nuclear laboratory, which is examined with respect
to American Culture of the decade of the Fifties.
- Jazz: The
1950's - Records & Photography
- An online exhibition on the great Jazz people of the Fifties! Lots of
pictures are included.
- The Music of the
Fifties
- The music that was popular to the people of the Fifties is celebrated
and examined here.
- Grease: Fads & Fashion
- Fifties fads and fashions are outlined by the Grease stage musical.
- Ball of Fire
- Dedicated to the noted movie actress, Barbara Stanwyck.
- Media History
Project Timelines
- "Browse key events in media history by era, century, or decade. The
buttons at the top of each page are "clickable" and specify where you are
in the timeline. Just click on a button to see that period."
-
The Tube: The Federal Communication Commission
- How Television is viewed by those who watch those who are supposed to
oversee it, the FCC. Includes a bit of history of the medium, with links
to related information.
- US Labor
History 1950s
- Major events timeline in labor relations during the 1950s.
Cold War & Soviet Union Resources
- Library of Congress Soviet Archives Exhibit
- Two exhibits:
1) "Internal Workings of the Soviet System", covers internal politics
and aspects of Soviet reality that were hidden or falsified in official
propaganda.
2) "The Soviet Union and the United States", shows how Soviet-American
relations were conducted between governments, between the publics of the
two countries, and between the Communist parties of the USSR and the USA.
- CAIN: Conflict Archive
on the Internet
- A clearinghouse for information on international conflicts.
- Joseph Stalin
- A key person in Soviet and Communist History.
- Stalin,
Willi Munzenburg, and the Seduction of the Intellectuals
- A book review about Communist subversion of the West.
- Repression and Terror: Stalin in Control
- In the 1920s, Joseph Stalin set the stage for gaining absolute power
by employing police repression against opposition elements within the
Communist Party.
- Cold War Hot
Links:
- Many Web reources relating to the Cold War
- Cold War:
Postwar Estrangement
- The postwar split examined.
-
Cuba History Archives
- Lots of information about Cuba, from the Communist Revolution onward,
both the U.S. and Cuban viewpoints.
- Senator Joseph
McCarthy
- Audio (and other) files from the McCarthy Era and the
Cold
War.
- McCarthyism
essay
- A brief introduction to McCarthyism.
- The
Impact of McCarthyism
- What happened to those who were "different".
- An Air Force
for Crises and Lesser Conflicts
- An official government sponsored
report.
- National
Guard in the Post-Cold War Era
- An official government sponsored
report.
- Military
Strategy and Force Posture
- An official government
sponsored report.
- Deterring
Regional Aggressors
- An official government
sponsored report.
- U.S. and Japan
After the Cold War
- An official government sponsored report.
- Human Radiation
Experiments
- Report on U.S. military secret use of civilians for
experiments.
- Intelligence and
CounterIntelligence
- How spying played a big part in the Cold War.
Korean War Resources
- city.net South
Korea
- Current information about South Korea.
- city.net North
Korea
- Current information about North Korea.
- Country Studies
- Government manuals on Asian countries and elsewhere.
- Eyewitness: A
Korean Remembers
- One person's account of the war, causes and effects.
- Korean War Project
- Links to information about the Korean War and aftereffects.
- Korean War
History
- Links related to the history of the Korean
War.
Nuclear Weapons & Nuclear War Resources
- Todd's
Atomic Homepage
- A huge collection of links to all things nuclear.
- Decision:
Hiroshima-Nagasaki
- How it was decided to drop The Bomb.
- Leo Szilard Home
Page
- An anti-Bomb physicist shares secret information.
-
Nagasaki Journey
- A photo essay on the atomic bomb blast at
Nagasaki, Japan.
- Enola
Gay
- The aircraft that dropped The A-Bomb is memorialized.
- T R A C E S
- A
place to learn about radiation effects.
-
Becoming Death: FilmNotes
- Film series: Cinema & the Atomic Age.
- Fifty From
Trinity
- Links to events of the development of the nuclear age.
- Atomic Age at 50
- Experts reflect on Hiroshima
and Nagasaki, aftermath and future.
- Bureau of Atomic
Tourism
- Visit sites where A-weapons have been exploded.
- Radiation Effects Research
- Information about medical effects of radiation on humans.
- New
Nuclear Infrastructure
- Report to the government on nuclear
presence.
- Reducing
Nuclear Danger
- U.S. Department of Energy planning document.
- The U.S.
Nuclear Weapons Cost Study Project
- True cost of atomic weapons is
estimated.
- Executive
Summary: Atomic Costs
- The government's asssessment of nuclear
costs.
- Atomic
Audit
- Cost of the U.S. nuclear arsenal.
- Nuclear Weapons:
Effects and Survival
- Pictures and sound files.
- Eliminating
Weapons of Mass Destruction
- How it might be done.
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