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Overview of the Post-War Era - Digital History
In 1945, the United States was a far different country than it subsequently became. Nearly a third of Americans lived in poverty. A third of the country's homes had no running water, two-fifths lacked flushing toilets, and three-fifths lacked central heating.
http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/era.cfm?eraID=16
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Foreign Policy After the Cold War - Boundless
Learn more about foreign policy after the cold war in the Boundless open textbook.
https://www.boundless.com/political-science/textbooks/boundless-political-science-textbook/foreign-policy-18/the-history-of-american-foreign-policy-110/foreign-policy-after-the-cold-war-588-4256/
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Post Cold War Era - Best of History Web Sites
The CNN Student News feature special reports on many key World and American events, issues, and personalities.
http://besthistorysites.net/modern-history/post-cold-war-era/
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Postwar Politics and The Cold War - Gilder Lehrman
The late summer of 1945 marked the height of American power. The country that had suffered from dust bowls, economic depression, and a devastating attack on its Pacific naval fleet in the last decade-and-a-half emerged as the dominant global actor.
https://www.gilderlehrman.org/history-by-era/postwar-politics-and-origins-cold-war/essays/postwar-politics-and-cold-war
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Defining U.S. Foreign Policy in a Post-Post-Cold War World
A successful foreign policy begins with an understanding of the particular challenges of the day, one informed by a historical perspective. As the "post-post-Cold War" label suggests, we can understand the challenges we confront today only if we know how we got here.
http://2001-2009.state.gov/s/p/rem/9632.htm
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Post-Cold War World Order
In the years since the end of the Second World War, American foreign policy has consisted primarily of the effort to cope with two immensely difficult problems which the events of that war brought into being, neither of which had been adequately anticipated and which the discussions among the victor powers at the end of the war failed to solve.
https://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/united-states/1972-10-01/after-cold-war
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The Lost American - Post-Cold War - PBS Frontline
The end of the Cold War - and US Cold War administrations - has created a unique opportunity to make profound changes in the international humanitarian system.
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/cuny/laptop/coldwar.html
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Beyond the Post-Cold War World
An era ended when the Soviet Union collapsed on Dec. 31, 1991. The confrontation between the United States and the Soviet Union defined the Cold War period.
https://www.stratfor.com/weekly/beyond-post-cold-war-world
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Post-Cold War era - Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
Wikipedia's information about the Post-Cold War era.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Post%E2%80%93Cold_War_era
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Why Neither Reagan Nor the United States Won the Cold War - US News
Jack Matlock from US News and World Report discusses Superpower Illusions.
http://www.usnews.com/opinion/articles/2010/01/22/why-neither-reagan-nor-the-united-states-won-the-cold-war-2
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Ronald Reagan and the End of the Cold War: The Debate Continues
For a British professor with more than a passing interest in US foreign policy and the role of the United States in ending the Cold War, it is indeed fascinating to observe how deeply divided opinion still remains over the part played in the making of 1989 by one very special American: President Ronald Reagan.
https://www.gilderlehrman.org/history-by-era/age-reagan/essays/ronald-reagan-and-end-cold-war-debate-continues
