20th Century History By the Decades
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20th Century Resources
1900-09
10-19
20-29
30-39
40-49
50-59
60-69
70-79
80-89
90-99
20th Century: 1960-1969 Decade
- Cycles of U.S.
History - Present Cycle (1943 - Present)
- "This is, of course, our very own cycle. Beginning with the birth of
our version of the idealist generation, the Baby Boomers (approximately
1943), and continuing to this very day."
- The Sixties Project
- A place that tries to explain the
Sixties.
- The Sixties
- The Sixties were a revolutionary, turbulent time of great social and
technological change!
- Straight From The
Sixties
- Subtitle: What Conservatives Owe the Decade They Hate. Article by one
of the experts on the Sixties, Todd Gitlin.
- 60's
Rock: An Overview
- The story of the Rock music that accompanied the Decade of the
Sixties. Many links to the bands, musicians and songwriters of this
influential period. Helps to understand the social and political upheaval
of the times.
- Chronology of San
Francisco Rock 1965-1969
- San francisco was a major center of Rock music in the Sixties. Many
of the popular bands lived there (Grateful Dead, Jefferson Airplane,
etc.) Many other groups and performers came to perform at the top venues:
Fillmore Auditorium, Winterland, and the Avalon Ballroom, plus a number
of other clubs and halls.
- This Day In Rock & Roll History
- People and events of Rock & Roll History are listed day by day. You can also request a particular date to see what happened.
- The Rock (and Sixties and late Eras)) Photos of Robert Altman
- Many rock stars and groups, as well as historic events of the Sixties, are shown in the photos of photographer Robert Altman.
- Rock Photography of Niels van Iperen
- Photos of Rock stars, groups, and events, beginning in the Sixties and continuing. Search, browse, or scan alphabetically by name.
- Photos From
The Sixties Decade
- Photographer's collection of photos from the
Sixties era available here.
- Viet
Nam Generation, Inc.
- The 1960s and the Viet Nam war.
- History
of CounterCulture
- How the "generation gap" developed.
- The
Digger Archives
- An unusual group of the S.F. Haight-Ashbury.
- Bands
and Artists by Decade
- Brief lists of music recording groups, listed according to the decade
in which they were popular.
- The Nixon
links
- President Richard Nixon's political career spanned more than three
decades (50's - 70's). This page attempts to link to information about
this remarkable man and his times. (Also includes links to realted
people, i.e., V.P. Agnew.)
- It's Groovy (The
Seventies Page)
- Collection of links to culture and history of the Seventies Decade.
- Minority
Studies Page
- Huge collection of links to information about minority groups, with
an emphasis on Civil Rights and history of their struggles.
Vietnam War Resources
Kent
State Exhibit
- How anti-War protesters were killed at Kent State
University.
- The Wall: Vietnam War
Memorial
- Find out about the memorial to the veterans of the
Vietnam War. Information on the memorial, its meaning, and the war itself.
- International War Crimes
- From the diary
of a witness to Vietnam War Crimes.
- Organizing Veterans & War Crimes
- How the vets exposed Vietnam War crimes.
- My Lai Commemoration Campaign
- The My Lai Commemoration Campaign (MLCC) has a collection of
information
about the My Lai massacre.
- The Anti-war and
New Left Movements
- Government stifles the 1st Amendment during war.
- COINTELPRO
Helped Destroy the Movements
- The government against the
Anti-War Movement.
- Vietnam Veterans
Against the War (VVAW)
- One of the most visible Anti-War groups.
- Veterans
Organizations & Support Groups
- Support resources for the Vets.
- Images of
War
- Personal stories of events of the war.
- The VietNam Pictures
Archive
- Many different kinds of pictures from Vietnam.
- Viet
Nam
- Lots of different links to information about Vietnam.
- Vietnam, antiwar comic
- By former Georgia
legislator, Julian Bond.
- A Visit to
Vietnam
- Vietnam veterans return to the country.
- Vietnam
Information
- Lots more links to information about contemporary
Vietnam.
- Vietnam: Yesterday and
Today
- Understanding Vietnam--as it was then and as it is
now.
- Vietnam Veterans
- Honoring
Vietnam Veterans living and dead, on either side of the conflict.
- Responding to
McNamara
- A pacifist religious group and truths about the war
recently revealed.
- Vietnam
Report
- From a recent series of international conferences.
- Vietnam War Resources
- Links to information.
-
Vietnam Memoirs
- A view from the vets.
- The Vietnam I
remember
- One former soldier's graphic witness to war.
- My Journey to
Vietnam
- A U.S. Navy seaman's story aboard ship in Vietnam.
- Images of My
War
- Memories of a retured soldier's experiences in the service. Covers
the time period between 1967 to 1975.
- Street
Kids of Vietnam
- The after-effects of the war and the children.
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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General 20th Century Resources
1900-09
10-19
20-29
30-39
40-49
50-59
60-69
70-79
80-89
90-99
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