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DP History Cold War: General Websites and Causes of the Cold War

What were the origins?

Links

The Cold War
History in Focus: The Cold War
Where Historians Disagree: Origins of the Cold War
Who Was to Blame?
Origins and Ending: The Historical Debate
Who Started the Cold War: An Exchange
Origins of the Cold War in Europe and Near East (Google Book Chapter)

Origins of the Cold War (iTunes U, Yale)
Origins of the Cold War (iTunes U, UC Berkley)
Eisenhower Revisionism
The International System and the Origins of the Cold War (Leffler and Painter)

Environmental Histories of the Cold War
Post-Revisionist Cold War (JSTOR article)
Barnes as a Revisionist of the Cold War

Cold War Documents

The World the SuperPowers Made
A Long View of the COld War

History Today article--you'll need the password from home.
The Munich Effect

Database PDF file. You'll need the password from home.
Berlin: Flashpoint of the Cold War
Ideological Foundations of the Cold War
Superpower Quest for Empire

PDF
Cold War; Nuclear Strategies

BBC: The Cold War
Cold War Topics
Cold War Files

Interpreting History through Documents
Cold War Museum
Bitesize GCSE: Cold War
History.com: The Cold War
Causes
History Learning Site: Causes
CNN: The Cold War
Rise and Fall of the Big Three

You'll need the password from home.
Postwar Politicis and the Origins of the Cold War

nice collection of essays , primary source materials and interviews.
Origins of the Cold War
Lecture 14: Origins of the Cold War
Cold War Origins

Documents from the Wilson archives
Cold War: Causes
Cold War: A Brief History
Truman and the Cold War
American Pre-eminence and the Cold War
Teaching the COld War: Overview

Soviet Influence in Europe