Supplemental Materials

The Origins of the Cold War: U.S. Choices After World War II

The Origins of the Cold War: U.S. Choices After World War II engages students in the national debate on the U.S. role in the world in 1946. The unit recalls the historically-rooted ambivalence with which Americans greeted their country's sudden prominence in world affairs after World War II.

Additional Resources from the Choices Program

The Fog of War Teacher's Guide and Accompanying Online Resources
Additional lesson plans on the Cuban missile crisis (and other topics in the history of American foreign policy) are available from the Teacher's Guide for The Fog of War.

Accompanying online resources are available.

Web Links

The Truman Library
 Collection of sixty-nine documents related to the Truman Doctrine

The Cold War International History Project
 Newly available documents and analysis of events, links to other sites

The Parallel History Project on NATO and the Warsaw Pact
Collections of documents and papers on various Cold War topics

Books

Beschloss, Michael. The Conquerors: Roosevelt, Truman and the Destruction of Hitler's Germany, 1941-1945 (New York: Simon and Schuster, 2002). 377 pages.

Gaddis, John L. The United States and the Origins of the Cold War, 1941-1947 (New York:Columbia University Press, 1972). 396 pages.

Jones, Joseph Marion. The Fifteen Weeks (New York: Harcourt, Brace and World, 1964). 296 pages.

Kennan, George F. Memoirs (1925-1950) (Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1967). 623 pages.

Kimball, Warren F. Franklin D. Roosevelt and the World Crisis, 1937-1945 (Lexington, Mass.: D.C. Heath and Company, 1973). 297 pages.

Paterson, Thomas G. The Origins of the Cold War (Lexington, Mass.: D.C. Heath and Company, 1974). 126 pages.

Ulam, Adam B. The Rivals: America and Russia Since World War II (New York: Penguin Books, 1971). 405 pages.

NOTE: This is a selected list of resources focused on the topic of the curriculum unit, The Origins of the Cold War: U.S. Choices After World War II. Additional resources will be added to this site as they become available.