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The Cold War, Episodes 1-24

This is a companion web site to the award-winning twenty-four episode documentary that appeared on television in 1998. The web site includes links to historical documents; interactive maps; profiles of key figures; a glossary; narratives about culture, the space race, espionage, and the bomb; images; transcripts of interviews with key figures, games; links to other sites; and transcripts of chats with journalists, scientists, and historians about the topics of each episode of the TV series. Some of the narratives are excerpts from ?Cold War: An Illustrated History," the companion book to the TV series.

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Material Type:: Presentation
Date Added to MERLOT:: June 1, 2000
Date Modified in MERLOT:: September 1, 2022
Author:: John Hashimoto, Knowledge Bank, CNN Interactive in conjunction with its Cold War Series
Submitter:: Cathy Swift

Primary Audience:: High School, College General Ed
Mobile Compatibility:: Not specified at this time
Technical Requirements:: Interactive IPEX for images Windows Media Player for interviews Apple?s QuickTime 3 for QTVR images and video excerpts Shockwave for games
Language:: English
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