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Use the subscription database.  The user name is CA1032 and the password is vikings, then you must click on the orange box for SIRS products.  Once there, search “cold war”.  You’ll get 458 great results.  http://www.proquestk12.com/

An overview of the cold war http://history1900s.about.com/cs/coldwaroverview/

Another http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/ColdWar.htm

One more http://www.coldwar.org/articles/40s/index.asp

And don’t forget the obvious:  search for your indivdual person or event

http://kclibrary.lonestar.edu/decade50.html

http://www.thepeoplehistory.com/1950s.html

http://www.chiff.com/pop-culture/1950s.htm

http://www.answers.com/topic/1950s-1

And last but not least, try the SIRS database.  Click on this link, type the user name CA1032 and the password vikings, then click on the orange SIRS products box.  Search 1950’s, and then look at the many choices of people and topics within the list of results.