Cold War Policies 1945-1991

"The Yalta conference is often cited as the beginning of the Cold War. This meeting of the "Big Three" at the former palace of Czar Nicholas on the Crimean southern shore of the Black Sea took place February 4-11, 1945."

"The most important cause of the end of the Cold War was not Ronald Reagan or George Bush or Gorbachev or the Pope. It was the grass-roots resistance to communism by the people of Eastern Europe. Movements like Solidarity were the real reason that communist governments found themselves undermined and vulnerable and it was the mass of working men and women in Europe that made possible the free elections, the collapse of the Berlin Wall, and the disappearance of the Iron Curtain that signified the end of the Cold War."

A nice site to roam around. Photos, short articles, external links, and even a few QT movies if you can find them, links to them are not labeled. Not a "scholarly" overview, but one easy to read, to get an idea of what it was like during that period if you missed living it, or will bring back a few memories if you're old enough.