Berlin Airlift/Iron Curtain:
B1 Color map of Berlin Airlift from PBS website “Introduction”
B2 Color map of Berlin Airlift from PBS website “Three Air Corridors”
B3 Color map of Berlin Airlift from PBS website “Airlift Ends”
B4 Black line master map of post WWII Europe for student use
B5 Partial transcript of 1995 interview with Gail Halvorsen (pages 2-4)
B6 Photograph: A C-54 flies over a graveyard and perilously close to some apartment buildings while making its landing approach at Tempelhof.
B7 Photograph: Miniature parachutes can be seen dropping from Halvorsen's C-54 as he brings the plane in for a landing at Tempelhof.
B8 Photograph: Halvorsen's bunk becomes a factory for miniature parachutes weighted with Lyons chocolate.
B9 Photograph: Airlift C-54s being unloaded at Tempelhof after the heaviest snowfall of the winter blanketed the airport in white on 1 March 1949. High winds, poor visibility, and icing conditions near ground level forced a temporary cessation of operations during the night, but clearing skies the following day brought tonnages to the near normal level.
B10 Photograph: Berliners watch the airlift.
B11 Photograph: Stalin, Truman, and Churchill at the Potsdam conference.
B12 Document: Five page Department of State Office of Public Affairs background memorandum on the situation in Berlin from the Truman Presidential Library archives
B13 Photograph: Building the Wall, August 1961
B14 Photograph: Families Separated
B15 Photograph: Peter Fechter dying at the wall
B16 Photograph: Peter Fechter being carried away by East German border guards
B17 Photograph: East German border guard Conrad Schumann escaping to West
B18 Book, “Mercedes and the Chocolate Pilot” by Margot Theis Raven
B19 Document, transcript of 2007 interview with Gail Halvorsen

Cuban Missile Crisis/Living in the Atomic Age:
M1 Department of State translation of Nikita Khrushchev’s letter to President Kennedy dated 26 October 1962 (7 pages)
M2 Letter from President Kennedy to Nikita Khrushchev dated 25 October 1962
M3 Photograph: Executive Committee of the National Security Council meeting, White House Cabinet Room, 29 October 1962
M4 Photograph: Completed SA-2 missile site showing characteristic Star of David pattern.
M5 Photograph: October 25, 1962: Low-level photograph of San Cristobal no. 1 showing extensive tracking from surging construction and possible missile readiness drills.
M6 Photograph: CIA briefing board for JFK showing range of Soviet MRBMs (Bobby Kennedy on 16 October jokingly asked whether the missiles could hit Oxford, Mississippi, where federal marshals had intervened only two weeks earlier, so Oxford was included). PSALM was the special codeword for intelligence data on missiles in Cuba, a compartment created at President Kennedy’s insistence for greater control of this sensitive information.
M7 Photograph, Nikita Khrushchev
M8 Photograph, Fidel Castro
M9 Photograph, Khrushchev and Castro embracing
M10 Photograph, President John F. Kennedy
M11 Civil Defense Fallout Shelter Sign
M12 Fallout Protection pamphlet
M13 11 Steps to Survival pamphlet
M14 Family Shelter Designs pamphlet
M15 LIFE magazine, June 18, 1965, featuring recent space walk
M16 Saturday Evening Post, December 14, 1963, featuring the circumstances surrounding President Kennedy’s assassination and Lyndon B. Johnson’s succession to the presidency.

Korean War:
K1 Cobblestone Magazine, Fall 1999 issue, “The Korean War, 1950-1953”
K2 Cobblestone Teacher Activity Guide
K3 Photograph, Wounded chaplain reads memorial service over snow covered bodies of Marines
K4 Photograph, Wounded soldier being evacuated to hospital in Pusan
K5 Photograph, Korean orphan boy adopted by a motor pool battalion at Inchon
K6 Photograph, Grief stricken soldier whose buddy has been killed in action is comforted by a fellow soldier
K7 Cold Weather “pile” cap, Korean War
K8 Document, excerpt from oral history interview with Clark M. Clifford
K9 Document, speech given by President Truman on March 12, 1947, recommending assistance to Greece and Turkey
K10 Helmet, steel pot with liner, chin strap, and netting
K 11 Collapsible shovel

Vietnam War:
V1 Photograph, 2nd Lieutenant Harold Bascom Durham, Jr.
V2 Citation, Medal of Honor, Harold Bascom Durham, Jr.
V3 Photograph, Army Medal of Honor
V4 Song lyric, “Where is the Love,” Black Eyed Peas
V5 Song lyric, “Where Have All the Flowers Gone?” (written by Pete Seeger)
V6 Song lyric, ““Blowin’ in the Wind,” Bob Dylan
V7 Song lyric, “I Feel Like I’m Fixin’ to Die Rag,” Country Joe & the Fish
V8 Song lyric, “Ohio,” Neil Young
V9 Song lyric, “Run Through the Jungle,” Creedence Clearwater Revival
V10 Song lyric, “What’s Goin’ On?” Marvin Gaye
V11 Cap, Boonie
V12 Canteen
V13 Photograph, Bell UH-1 (Huey) helicopter
V14 Photograph, Bell UH-1 (Huey) helicopters
V15 Photograph, US Marine walks through a ravine filled with punji sticks, 28 Jan 1966
V16 Document, text of President Johnson’s “Peace Without Conquest” speech at Johns Hopkins University on April 7, 1965
V17 Magnet, peace symbol
V18 Flag, POW/MIA
V19 Video, “Return With Honor” (PBS Home Video)

Fall of Berlin Wall/End of Cold War:
E1 Piece of Berlin Wall
E2 Photographs, End of the Berlin Wall, November 1989
E3 Photograph, Climbing over Berlin Wall
E4 Photograph, Mikhail Gorbachev
E5 Map, Europe under the Warsaw Pact
E6 Map, Europe, present day with capitals
E7 Map, Europe, present day without capitals

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