This lesson plan is an inquiry into events that occurred during the Cold War era. It is a technology-based project on one event that occurred during the Cold War(1945-1991). The Cold War describes the tense and hostile relationship...

Kids learn the history of the Red Scare during the Cold War. A fear of communism caused black lists and accusations led by Senator Joseph McCarthy.

Although the space race was originally a competition between two Cold War foes,it ultimately resulted in many benefits for the people of the Earth. Find information on the Mercury, Gemini, and Apollo, and Soviet space programs,...

Outline of proceedings that took place at the Yalta Conference. Features student questions.

A fun word search game with terms about the Cold War. Play online or print out a version for use in class or at home.

This tutorial discusses four wars between 1914 and 1975 that the United States participated in. These include: World War I, World War II, the Korean War, and the Vietnam War. A PDF file of the tutorial is available.

Transcript of a NewsHour interview with George F. Kennan (1904-2005), the man credited with articulating the policy of containment that shaped U.S. foreign policy toward communism at the start of the cold war.

Investigate the biography of Leonid Brezhnev who was the leader of the Soviet Union (Russia) during much of the Cold War on this site.

Relations between the United States and Russia have always been very tumultuous but the recent capture and release of US and Russian spies has shown that while there is still a lot of progress to be made and trust to be built, the two...

In July 1975, the first joint Soviet-American spacecraft docking took place. In this activity, students will analyze the way that government officials in both the United States and the Soviet Union valued space exploration for more than...