The Cuban Missile Crisis: 40 Years Later
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NBC Nightly News looks back at the Cuban Missile Crisis, showing how close America came to nuclear war with Russia in 1962.
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Berlin Area Historical Society
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The Berlin Area Historical Society is dedicated to preserving the history and genealogy of Berlin, Pennsylvania, and the surrounding area. Currently, the society maintains a genealogy building, a records building/museum, and two faithfully restored buildings, the Heritage Haus and Glade One-Room Schoolhouse.
The site offers information about the society as well as upcoming events.
Calvin B. Taylor Museum [MD]
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The Calvin B. Taylor Museum is a historic house museum located in Berlin's National Register Historic District. The main block of the house has been converted into the present day museum, and the west wing is a gallery which displays local memorabilia. The home was originally built in 1832. The house was named for Calvin B. Taylor, who occupied the house between the early 1890s and 1932. Taylor was notable for founding the Calvin B. Taylor Banking Company. The museum serves to chronicle the daily life in Berlin, Maryland, during the course of the 19th century and early 20th century.
The site offers an events calendar, visitor information, a photo gallery featuring 18 photographs of the home, historical information regarding the home, and a photographic tour of the house.
This is a duplicate of listing 10078.
Parallel History Project on Cooperative Security
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These more than 350 recently declassified documents from archives of former Warsaw Pact countries and the U.S. reveal previously hidden aspects of Cold War military strategy. The project offers documents and accompanying analyses in six categories: Warsaw Pact records; Warsaw Pact war plans; NATO records (U.S. and British); national perspectives (Bulgaria, Romania, Hungary, China, and Poland); crises (Berlin and Libya); and intelligence.
The website also provides 13 oral history interviews with former officials, including two Eisenhower administration officers involved with NATO planning and nuclear weapons policies. Documents reveal a 1964 Warsaw Pact war plan for using nuclear weapons in a preemptive strike against NATO forces and a 1965 Hungarian Army exercise detailing the targeted destruction of Western cities, including Vienna, Munich, Verona, and Vicenza. A 30-page survey article assesses the new history written since the release of recent documents.