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For more, see
 * ==== American Government USG.4.4 for an overview of American Foreign Policy, including tools used by policymakers and lesson plans for studying policy decisions. ====
 * ==== United States History II.33 for information on American involvements in Iraq and Afghanistan. ====
 * ==== World History II.48 for information about the 9/11 terrorist attacks. ====


 * [|A New Story Told at Ground Zero: The National September 11 Memorial Museum] from //The New York Times.//
 * //[|Where the Twin Towers Stood]// a slideshow also from //The New York Times//.

[|The Collapse of the Soviet Union] is a model lesson plan from the Massachusetts Department of Elementary and Secondary Education.

[|The Fall of the Iron Curtain] from the Google Cultural Institute

A new era begins in the United States

PBS article that gives a great overview of the Post Cold-War era

This site provides critical lectures in American Foreign Policy.

The Council on Foreign Relations' site is a wonderful multimedia resource that has video clips on U.S. foreign policy and philanthropy.

Post Cold War Map



**Richard Nixon and the Opening to China**
Text of the [|Shanghai Communique], February 27, 1972

See also [|Nixon's China Game]from PBS American Experience.

**The Iraq War**

 * See The Costs of War from Brown University for a study of the impact of war on people and nations, including:**
 * 190,000 lives lost (mostly Iraqi civilians)
 * 4,488 American servicemen and women and 3,400 American independent contractors killed
 * $2.2 trillion in costs (1/8 of the national debt)

[|10 Years in Iraq] from the Truman Center features first-hand accounts from veterans of the war.

Click here to see British novelist John le Carre read excerpts from his 2003 anti-war essay, [|The United States of America Has Gone Mad].