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• Title: Aftermath of World War II: Prelude to the Cold War
  Publication Date: 1962
  Format: Film
  Location: Non-print Media
  Call No./URL/Item No.: D825.A48
  Subject: Politics
  GeographicArea: United States
  TimePeriod: 1940s
  Description: Summarizes the major results of World War II and presents the developments that set the stage for the breakup of the victorious Allies into two opposing groups. Using maps, charts, and authentic footage of the period, the film is designed to create an understanding of the events leading to the ideological conflict known as the Cold War.
  
  
• Title: Assessing the Soviet Threat: The Early Cold War Years
  Author: Woodrow J. Kuhns/Center for the Study of Intelligence
  Publication Date: 1997
  Format: Print
  Location: Government Documents
  Call No./URL/Item No.: PREX 3.17:As 7
  Subject: Military & Intelligence
  GeographicArea: Soviet Union
  TimePeriod: 1940s
  Description: "The documents in this volume were produced by the analytical arm of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) and its predecessor, the Central Intelligence Group (CIG), between the latter's founding in 1946 and the end of 1950. Because more than 450 National Intelligence Estimates dealing with the Soviet Union and international Communism have been declassified since 1993, this volume features the current intelligence that went to the President in the Daily and Weekly Summaries. Taken as a whole, this volume provides the first comprehensive survey of CIA's early analysis of the Soviet threat."
  
  
• Title: Assessing the Soviet Threat: The Early Cold War Years
  Author: Woodrow J. Kuhns/Center for the Study of Intelligence
  Publication Date: 1997
  Format: Online
  Location: Network WWW
  Call No./URL/Item No.: http://www.cia.gov/csi/books/coldwaryrs/index.html
  Subject: Military & Intelligence
  GeographicArea: Soviet Union
  TimePeriod: 1940s
  Description: "The documents in this volume were produced by the analytical arm of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) and its predecessor, the Central Intelligence Group (CIG), between the latter's founding in 1946 and the end of 1950. Because more than 450 National Intelligence Estimates dealing with the Soviet Union and international Communism have been declassified since 1993, this volume features the current intelligence that went to the President in the Daily and Weekly Summaries. Taken as a whole, this volume provides the first comprehensive survey of CIA's early analysis of the Soviet threat."
  
  
• Title: Berlin Airlift: Six-Month Anniversary
  Publication Date: 12/3
  Format: Audio
  Location: Broadcast
  Call No./URL/Item No.: LAB au rl orig 788
  Subject: Military & Intelligence
  GeographicArea: Western Europe
  TimePeriod: 1940s
  Description: Berlin Airlift (or Air Lift): Six-Month Anniversary. Reporter: Sidney N. Berry, chief, special events, U.S. Information Agency (USIA), Voice of America (VOA). Broadcast on December 30, 1948.
  
  
• Title: Crimean Conference: Yalta, February, 1945
  Author: Chelsea House
  Publication Date: 1970
  Format: Film
  Location: Nonprint Media
  Call No./URL/Item No.: D734.C7 1945g
  Subject: Politics
  GeographicArea: Multiple
  TimePeriod: 1940s
  Description: Traces the highlights of Roosevelt's final overseas tour, focusing on the controversial Big Three discussions in Russia on the occupation of Germany, the Japanese campaign, the Polish question, and the United Nations conference.
  
  
• Title: Day by Day The Forties
  Author: Thomas M. Leonard
  Publication Date: 1977
  Format: Print
  Location: McKeldin Reference Stacks
  Call No./URL/Item No.: D427.L4
  Subject: Multiple Subjects
  GeographicArea: Multiple
  TimePeriod: 1940s
  Description: Daily timeline of the 1940s; international in scope.
  
  
• Title: Famous Trials: The Alger Hiss Trials, 1949-50
  Author: Doug Linder/Famous Trials Project, University of Missouri
  Publication Date: 2003
  Format: Online
  Location: Network WWW
  Call No./URL/Item No.: http://www.law.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/hiss/hiss.html
  Subject: Military & Intelligence
  GeographicArea: United States
  TimePeriod: 1940s
  Description: Includes excerpts from HUAC and grand jury hearings and trial transcripts, chronology, images, links, bibliography, video clips, letters written by Whittaker Chambers and Richard Nixon to their children, the "Pumpkin Papers," an "incriminating Venona cable," and excerpts from the Nixon Watergate tapes in which he references Hiss.
  
  
• Title: Foreign Relations of the United States, 1945-1950: Emergence of the Intelligence Establishment
  Author: US State Department
  Publication Date: 1996
  Format: Online
  Location: Networked WWW
  Call No./URL/Item No.: http://dosfan.lib.uic.edu/ERC/frus/frus58-60x1/index.html
  Subject: Military & Intelligence
  GeographicArea: United States
  TimePeriod: 1940s
  Description: Official documentary historical record of major U.S. foreign policy decisions and significant diplomatic activity.
  
  
• Title: Great Britain Foreign Office: United States Correspondence 1930-1948
  Author: Foreign Office, Great Britain
  Publication Date: 1930
  Format: Microform
  Location: McKeldin Microform
  Call No./URL/Item No.: E183.8.G7G71, E183.8.G7G72, E183.8.G7G73
  Subject: Politics
  GeographicArea: Multiple
  TimePeriod: 1940s
  Description: This collection is officially known as British Foreign Office File 371. It is the principal British diplomatic file on the United States throughout and after the war years. The indexes (in McKeldin Reference under the same call number) are arranged by year and file number with subject matter described. To locate an item one must note page number, volume number, reel number and year. This correspondence contains detailed reports which reveal the process of American transition from post-World War I isolationism to world supremacy. It covers Anglo-American relations, conduct of the war, political and social events, economic policy and plans for postwar reconstruction.
  
  
• Title: How Are the Mighty Fallen
  Author: Time-Life Multimedia
  Publication Date: 1976
  Format: Film
  Location: Nonprint Media
  Call No./URL/Item No.: D424.E8 no. 11 pt. 1 and D424.E8 no. 11 pt. 2
  Subject: Politics
  GeographicArea: Eastern Europe
  TimePeriod: 1940s
  Description: Discusses the post-World War II establishment of the Iron Curtain and the beginning of Cold War tensions which reached a climax with the 1948-49 Russian blockade of West Berlin. Accompanying discussion guide.
  
  
• Title: Human Rights - Fundamental Freedoms
  Author: BBC-TV and Time-Life Films
  Publication Date: 1978
  Format: Film
  Location: Nonprint Media
  Call No./URL/Item No.: D424.E8 no. 10 pt. 1 and pt. 2
  Subject: Politics
  GeographicArea: Eastern Europe
  TimePeriod: 1940s
  Description: Discusses the aftermath of the Second World War, including Soviet domination in Eastern Europe
  
  
• Title: Manhattan Project: Official History and Documents
  Author: National Archives and Records Administration
  Format: Microform
  Location: McKeldin Microform
  Call No./URL/Item No.: QC773.ALM3
  Subject: Science & Technology
  GeographicArea: United States
  TimePeriod: 1940s
  Description: This collection includes material on the diplomatic history of the Manhattan Project as well as the daily log, the diary of Colonel Mathias, and reports on the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The Manhattan Engineering District, later known as the Manhattan Project, was formed upon the recommendation of Vannevar Bush to President Roosevelt in 1942. It was dedicated to the development of three major fission processes and was responsible for the design of the atomic bomb, under the supervision of J. Robert Oppenheimer and Enrico Fermi in Los Alamos, New Mexico. In addition, the Project was involved in related intelligence gathering operations, diplomatic missions and the location of uranium ore. The orginal documents are held by the National Archives. Restricted items have not been microfilmed. The Guide locates documents as they are arranged on the reels and gives a detailed breakdown of the materials in the collection; there is no cumulative subject index. (McKeldin Reference QC773.ALM31).
  
  
• Title: Messages Between Franklin D. Roosevelt and Winston S. Churchill 1939-1945, and Related Materials in the Franklin D. Roosevelt Library
  Author: National Historical Publications Commission
  Publication Date: 1973
  Format: Microform
  Location: McKeldin Microform
  Call No./URL/Item No.: E742.5.R58
  Subject: Politics
  GeographicArea: Multiple
  TimePeriod: 1940s
  Description: Roll 1. Map room papers, Sept. 1939-July 1942.--roll 2. Map room papers Aug. 1942-July 1943.--roll 3. Map room papers Aug. 1943-Feb. 1944.--roll 4. Map room papers, March-Aug. 1944.--roll 5. Map room papers Sept. 1944-April 1945.--roll 6. President's secretary's file, President's personal file, messages from other files and collections.
  
  
• Title: O.S.S./State Department Intelligence and Research Reports Part 2: Postwar Japan, Korea, and Southeast Asia
  Author: O.S.S./State Department
  Publication Date: 1977
  Format: Microform
  Location: McKeldin Microform
  Call No./URL/Item No.: DS518.1.U5
  Subject: Military & Intelligence
  GeographicArea: Asia & Oceania
  TimePeriod: 1940s
  Description: 6 reels; accompanied by a guide and index.
  
  
• Title: O.S.S./State Department Intelligence and Research Reports Part 3: China and India
  Author: O.S.S./State Department
  Publication Date: 1977
  Format: Microform
  Location: McKeldin Microform
  Call No./URL/Item No.: DS774.C456 reel 1
  Subject: Military & Intelligence
  GeographicArea: Asia & Oceania
  TimePeriod: 1940s
  Description: Indexed by: A Guide to O.S.S./State Department Intelligence and Research Reports: China and India (McK Ref DS774.C456 Guide).
  
  
• Title: O.S.S./State Department Intelligence and Research Reports Part 5: Postwar Europe
  Author: O.S.S./State Department
  Publication Date: 1977
  Format: Microform
  Location: McKeldin Microform
  Call No./URL/Item No.: D824.P688 reel 1-10
  Subject: Military & Intelligence
  GeographicArea: Multiple
  TimePeriod: 1940s
  Description: Indexed by: A Guide to O.S.S./State Department Intelligence and Research Reports : Postwar Europe (Mck Ref D824.P688 Guide).
  
  
• Title: O.S.S./State Department Intelligence and Research Reports Part 6: Soviet Union
  Author: O.S.S./State Department
  Publication Date: 1977
  Format: Microform
  Location: McKeldin Microform
  Call No./URL/Item No.: DK267.S68 reel 1 - 8
  Subject: Military & Intelligence
  GeographicArea: Soviet Union
  TimePeriod: 1940s
  Description: Microfilm reproduction of Office of Strategic Services and State Department intelligence reports on Russia, 1941-1949. Indexed by: A Guide to O.S.S./State Department Intelligence and Research Reports : the Soviet Union (McK Ref DK.S68 Guide) .
  
  
• Title: O.S.S./State Department Intelligence and Research Reports Part 7: The Middle East
  Author: O.S.S./State Department
  Publication Date: 1977
  Format: Microform
  Location: McKeldin Microform
  Call No./URL/Item No.: DS42.M54 reel 1-3
  Subject: Military & Intelligence
  GeographicArea: Africa & the Middle East
  TimePeriod: 1940s
  Description: Indexed by: A Guide to O.S.S./State Department Intelligence and Research Reports : the Middle East (McK Ref DS42.M54 Guide).
  
  
• Title: Occupation of Japan
  Publication Date: 1942
  Format: Microform
  Location: McKeldin Microform
  Call No./URL/Item No.: D802.J3022 1942
  Subject: Politics
  GeographicArea: Asia & Oceania
  TimePeriod: 1940s
  Description: This collection reproduces English language archival source materials covering the entire occupation period of Japan by the U.S. during WWII. The documents start with wartime preparations and go through negotiation of the 1951 peace treaty. The documents are from the National Archives, Presidential Libraries, and collections of private papers. The types of material included are official military, intelligence, diplomatic and foreign policy publications, diaries, interviews, and minutes of meetings. he indexes provide title, date, and collation information for each document. Entries also include special annotations on format or contents of a document or document series, list of subject headings, names of organizations, and name of issuing source under which the document is indexed.
  
  
• Title: Open Hearing
  Publication Date: 9/24
  Format: Audio
  Location: Broadcast
  Call No./URL/Item No.: LAB au rl orig 2210
  Subject: Politics
  GeographicArea: Multiple
  TimePeriod: 1940s
  Description: "Open Hearing" a 30 minute program from Washington which presented current issues, moderated by Winston Burdette. This tape includes two programs. Side 1: Recorded 9/25/46. Topic - Should We Adopt a More Moderate Policy Toward Russia? Guest include Ralph Ingersol, editor of PM and James Reston, of The New York Times. Side 2: Recorded 10/1/46. Topic - Are the Press and the Radio Helping to Create a War Scare? Guest include Major George Fielding Elliot, Military Expert for The New York Herald-Tribune and Roger Baldwin, Dir. of the American Civil Liberties Union.
  
  
• Title: Open Hearing
  Publication Date: 11/2
  Format: Audio
  Location: Broadcast
  Call No./URL/Item No.: LAB au rl orig 2214
  Subject: Multiple Subjects
  GeographicArea: Multiple
  TimePeriod: 1940s
  Description: Side 2: Recorded 11/25/47. Topic - Should We Extend Additional Aid To China? Guest include Rep. Walter H. Judd of Minnesota and Harold Isaacs, foreign correspondent and author. Reel number N-12
  
  
• Title: People's Platform
  Publication Date: 5/8/
  Format: Audio
  Location: Broadcast
  Call No./URL/Item No.: LAB au rl orig 2222
  Subject: Multiple Subjects
  GeographicArea: Multiple
  TimePeriod: 1940s
  Description: "People's Platform", a 30 minute discussion program. The program uses a debate format and is moderated by Dwight Cook. This tape includes two programs. Side 1: Recorded 5/8/49. What Should Be US Policy Toward China? Guests include Dr. Luther Dulig, Pres. of the Institute of Public Administration, Robert Smith, Far East Correspondent of The New York Times and Maude Russell, Exec. Dir. of Committee for a Democratic Far Eastern Policy/YMCA in China. Side 2: Recorded 5/15/49. Does the End of the Berlin Blockade Mean We Are Winning the Cold War in Germany? Guests include Joseph B. Philips, editor of Intl. Affairs - Newsweek, Max Learner, New York Post and Fowler V. Harper, Yale Law Professor.
  
  
• Title: President Truman's Committee on Civil Rights
  Author: Committe on Civil Rights (Truman)
  Format: Microform
  Location: McKeldin Microform
  Call No./URL/Item No.: J82.B3 1964
  Subject: Politics
  GeographicArea: United States
  TimePeriod: 1940s
  Description: This collection includes materials from the Harry S. Truman Library relating to the work of the above mentioned committee, which presented a report to the President in 1947 entitled To Secure These Rights. The Committee criticized segregation in its many aspects and offered thirty-four recommendations for federal intervention in order to eliminate it from the U.S. civil service and the armed forces. Documents from seven manuscript sources are included in this collection: the Tom Clark Papers, the George M. Elsey Papers, the Frank P. Matthews Papers, the Philleo Nash Papers, and three record groups in the Harry S. Truman Papers. Of special note is the active correspondence of the Committee with groups such as the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, the National Urban League, the American Jewish Committee, the American Civil Liberties Union and the American and National Bar Associations. The guide to this collection (McKeldin Reference E185.61.P674 index) must be used for access. It does not contain a subject index. A large proportion of the collection consists of correspondence, testimony before the Committee, transcripts of its meetings and working papers of the Committee.
  
  
• Title: Reckoning: 1945 -- and After
  Author: Media Guild
  Publication Date: 1980
  Format: Film
  Location: Nonprint Media
  Call No./URL/Item No.: D743.W63 pt. 25
  Subject: Politics
  GeographicArea: Multiple
  TimePeriod: 1940s
  Description: This program looks at the occupation of Germany after World War II by the U.S., Russia, Britain and France according to the arrangements made at Yalta. Also examines the beginnings and causes of the power struggle that ensues between the U.S. and Russia.
  
  
• Title: Records of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Part I, 1942-1945 : The Soviet Union
  Author: Joint Chiefs of Staff
  Publication Date: 1979
  Format: Microform
  Location: McKeldin Microform
  Call No./URL/Item No.: DK267.R431
  Subject: Military & Intelligence
  GeographicArea: Soviet Union
  TimePeriod: 1940s
  Description: Indexed by: A Guide to Records of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Part I, 1942-1945 : The Soviet Union (McK Ref DK267.R431 Guide).
  
  
• Title: Roots of the Cold War
  Author: M. Matthews
  Publication Date: 1984
  Format: Film
  Location: Nonprint Media
  Call No./URL/Item No.: D843.R66
  Subject: Multiple Subjects
  GeographicArea: Multiple
  TimePeriod: 1940s
  Description: Historian Arthur Schlesinger, Jr. examines the origins of the Cold War during the period 1941-1947.
  
  
• Title: Secretary of State James Byrnes Reports on Moscow Conference
  Publication Date: 12/3
  Format: Audio
  Location: Broadcast
  Call No./URL/Item No.: LAB au rl orig 2295
  Subject: Multiple Subjects
  GeographicArea: Multiple
  TimePeriod: 1940s
  Description: Secretary of State James Byrnes reports on the results of the Moscow Conference from which he has just returned. In Moscow he met with the foreign ministers of Russia and Great Britain.
  
  
• Title: Truman and the Policy of Containment
  Author: Chelsea House
  Publication Date: 1971
  Format: Film
  Location: Nonprint Media
  Call No./URL/Item No.: E744.T7 V. 1 and E744.T7 v. 2
  Subject: Politics
  GeographicArea: Multiple
  TimePeriod: 1940s
  Description: Volume One: "Beginning of the Cold War, 1945-47." Volume Two: "The Cold War Flares, 1948-50." Includes coverage of Winston Churchill's "Iron Curtain" speech, the Truman Doctrine, the Czechoslovakian coup, the Berlin blockade, the H-bomb, the fall of Nationalist China, and the beginning of the Korean War.
  
  
• Title: USAFE Berlin Airlift Web Site
  Author: US Air Forces in Europe
  Publication Date: 2000
  Format: Online
  Location: Networked WWW
  Call No./URL/Item No.: http://www.usafe.af.mil/berlin/berlin.htm
  Subject: Politics
  GeographicArea: Eastern Europe
  TimePeriod: 1940s
  Description: Includes video clips and photographs.
  
  
• Title: Winston Churchill and President Truman Receive Degrees
  Publication Date: 3/5/
  Format: Audio
  Location: Broadcast
  Call No./URL/Item No.: LAB au rl orig 2246
  Subject: Politics
  GeographicArea: Multiple
  TimePeriod: 1940s
  Description: Winston Churchill and President Truman receive degrees honorary degrees from Westminster College in Missouri. Keynote address by Churchill who indicates need for an armed United Nations and a military unit among english-speaking peoples. He notes both the contributions of Russia in WWII and the need for concern for England and America's welfare with the rise of Communism. Notes filed with original tape.
  
  
• Title: World War II Ends: The Victors, The Vanquished, and the Origins of the Cold War
  Author: Chelsea House
  Publication Date: 1970
  Format: Film
  Location: Nonprint Media
  Call No./URL/Item No.: D814.W6
  Subject: Multiple Subjects
  GeographicArea: Multiple
  TimePeriod: 1940s
  Description: Traces military and political highlights of 1945 as World War II ended. Includes coverage of V-E Day, the end of the Pacific naval war, the Potsdam conference, the bombing of Japan and the Japanese surrender. Also includes coverage of the San Francisco UN conference, the Moscow conference and Churchill's 'Iron Curtain' speech with Stalin's reply
  
  
• Title: WRC 45th Anniversary: 1947
  Author: WRC Radio
  Publication Date: 1968
  Format: Audio
  Location: Broadcast
  Call No./URL/Item No.: LAB au rl orig 1714
  Subject: Multiple Subjects
  GeographicArea: United States
  TimePeriod: 1940s
  Description: WRC 45th Anniversary. Washington, D.C., radio station WRC celebrated its 45th anniversary in 1968 with a series of short documentaries highlighting each year of service. This tape: 1947. Tape 3 of 3. Taft-Hartley Act, Labor relations, H.V. Kaltenborn, Marshall Plan, Cold War, Bryson Rash.
  
  
• Title: WRC 45th Anniversary: 1949
  Author: WRC Radio
  Publication Date: 1968
  Format: Audio
  Location: Broadcast
  Call No./URL/Item No.: LAB au rl orig 1716
  Subject: Multiple Subjects
  GeographicArea: United States
  TimePeriod: 1940s
  Description: WRC 45th Anniversary. Washington, D.C., radio station WRC celebrated its 45th anniversary in 1968 with a series of short documentaries highlighting each year of service. This tape: 1949. President Truman's election laugh. Russia (Soviet Union) atomic bomb, Nuclear bomb, Cold War, Forrestal, McAndrew.