The button on the right links to notes given in class on the Cold War. These notes contain information on the early tensions leading to the war, the use of espionage, propaganda, the Yugoslavian case study, the Brezhnev Doctrine, and deescalation under Gorbachev among other things.
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The button on the right links to primary sources from the beginning of the Cold War which were used in our in class debate.
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Below are some videos that correspond to this period of history. They may help enrich your understanding of the past, provide a wormhole to distract you from whatever it is you really need to get done, or provide background noise for your stress induced nervous breakdown. Some we watched in class, others are new.
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A highly contested theory on what brought the Cold War to an end. By highly contested I mean, unless you are talking about the generational differences in perception of cold war tensions as reflected through popular media, don't use it on the test.
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Interested in how popular culture can be used to track evolving political ideologies? The AV Club put together a timeline doing just that.
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