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• How easy is it to steal a nuclear bomb?
• How McCarthyism Worked
• The Cold War: October 1951-1991
• How the Nuclear Arms Race Works
• How Spies Work
• The Kremlin and Red Square
• How Royalty Works
  
• Russian Revolution
• Cold War History
  
• History of Russia
• House of Romanov
• World War I
• History of Cuba
• History of North Korea
• History of Vietnam
• Union of Soviet Socialist Republics
• World War II
• History of China
  

More Great Links

• The Cold War Museum
• Communist Party USA
• Smithsonian Institution's Cold War Time Line
• Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation

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• "China." Amnesty International.
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• CNN.com: Cold War Timeline.
  http://www.cnn.com/SPECIALS/cold.war/timeline/frameset.html
• CNN.com: Profile of Kim Il Sung.
  http://www.cnn.com/SPECIALS/cold.war/kbank/profiles/kim/
• Communist Party USA.
  http://www.cpusa.org/
• Eaton, William J. "Gorbachev's Rise to Power." Los Angeles Times. 12 March 1985 (12 February 208).
• "Fidel Castro." New York Times. 19 Feb 2008. http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/
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• Harms, William. "China's Great Leap Forward." University of Chicago Chronicle. 14 March 1996.
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• Karnow, Stanley. "The TIME 100: Ho Chi Minh." TIME. 9 February 2008.
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• "Made in China: China's boom creates opportunities, problems." Current Events, a Weekly Reader publication. 107, 4. 1 October 2007 (12 February 2008).
• Museum of Communism.
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• "One Castro for Another." FoxNews.com.
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• Submarine and Cold War History: Cold War Timeline. Smithsonian Institution Museum of American History.
  http://americanhistory.si.edu/Subs/history/timeline/index.html
• University of Washington, Department of History.
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• Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation.
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• Wolcott,Martin, Gilman. "The Evil 100." Citadel Press, 2004.