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People (11)
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Supreme Allied Commander, 34th President, and the man who warned America about itself
George H.W. Bush
41st President of the United States, 1989–1993
Harry S. Truman
The haberdasher from Missouri who dropped the bomb, integrated the military, and contained the Soviets
J. Robert Oppenheimer
Director of the Manhattan Project and father of the atomic bomb
John F. Kennedy
35th President of the United States, 1961–1963
Joseph McCarthy
U.S. Senator whose anti-Communist crusade defined — and disgraced — an era
Neil Armstrong
The first human to set foot on the moon
Richard Nixon
The 37th President who opened China, ended the draft — and became the only president to resign
Robert F. Kennedy
Attorney General, Senator, and presidential candidate assassinated in 1968
Robert Goddard
Pioneer of modern rocketry who launched the world's first liquid-fueled rocket in 1926
Ronald Reagan
40th President of the United States, 1981–1989
Places (9)
Alaska
Seward's Icebox — America's largest and most remote state
Cape Canaveral
The Florida Launch Site That Has Carried American Ambitions Into Space Since 1950
Dallas
The city where Kennedy was killed and the Sun Belt came of age
Dwight D. Eisenhower Presidential Library
The Abilene, Kansas campus on the prairie where Ike grew up
George H. W. Bush Presidential Library
The Texas A&M library of a one-term president and lifelong public servant
Harry S. Truman Presidential Library
The Independence, Missouri library where the former president kept an office
John F. Kennedy Presidential Library
I. M. Pei's white tower on Boston harbor
Ronald Reagan Presidential Library
The hilltop library in Simi Valley with a retired Air Force One
The Interstate Highway System
The largest public works project in American history
Eras (1)
The Cold War
The ideological standoff between the United States and Soviet Union, 1945–1991
Events (18)
Assassination of JFK
The Murder of a President, Dallas, November 22, 1963
Bay of Pigs
The CIA's Failed Invasion of Cuba and Kennedy's Defining Early Crisis, April 1961
Berlin Airlift
The 11-Month Mission That Defied the Soviet Blockade, 1948–1949
Chicago 1968
The Democratic Convention that tore a party apart and handed the White House to Nixon
Cuban Missile Crisis
Thirteen days in 1962 when nuclear war became a real possibility
Election of 1968
Nixon's narrow victory amid assassination, riots, and the collapse of the New Deal coalition
Fall of the Berlin Wall
The 1989 night that signaled the end of the Cold War
Iran Hostage Crisis
The 444-Day Captivity That Ended the Carter Presidency, 1979–1981
Iran-Contra Affair
The Reagan administration's secret arms deal that illegally funded Nicaraguan rebels
Korean War
The "Forgotten War" that established the Cold War's logic of limited conflict, 1950–1953
Sputnik
The 1957 Soviet satellite that started the Space Race
The Manhattan Project
The secret World War II program that built the atomic bomb
The Miracle on Ice
The 1980 Olympic hockey upset that became a Cold War triumph
The Moon Landing
Apollo 11 and humanity's first steps on another world, July 1969
The Rosenberg Case
The Cold War espionage trial that ended in the electric chair
The Space Race
The Cold War competition between the United States and Soviet Union to conquer space
The U-2 Incident
The 1960 spy-plane shootdown that wrecked a superpower summit
Vietnam War
America's longest 20th-century conflict and the war that broke the postwar consensus, 1955–1975
Documents (7)
Gulf of Tonkin Resolution
The 1964 Congressional Authorization That Escalated the Vietnam War
Kennedy's Inaugural Address
Ask not what your country can do for you, 1961
Marshall Plan
The American Program That Rebuilt Western Europe After World War II
National Security Act of 1947
The law that created the CIA, NSC, and Joint Chiefs — and built the permanent architecture of the Cold War
North Atlantic Treaty
The 1949 alliance document that reversed 150 years of American foreign policy
Pentagon Papers
The leaked Defense Department history that revealed the government had systematically lied about Vietnam
Tear Down This Wall
Reagan at the Brandenburg Gate, 1987
Concepts (9)
Containment
America's Cold War strategy to halt the spread of Soviet communism
Détente
Nixon and Kissinger's strategy of easing Cold War tensions through direct diplomacy
McCarthyism
The anti-communist witch hunt that suppressed dissent and defined postwar American politics
Military-Industrial Complex
Eisenhower's Warning About the Alliance Between Defense Industry and Government Power
Red Scare
Two Episodes of Anti-Communist Hysteria That Reshaped American Civil Liberties
The Domino Theory
The Cold War premise that communist takeover in one country would trigger a regional chain reaction
Truman Doctrine
The Cold War Policy That Committed America to Containing Communism
U.S.–China Relations
From Open Door to trade war — the relationship that will define the 21st century
U.S.–Soviet Relations
Allies for four years, adversaries for 46 — the rivalry that defined the 20th century
Organizations (5)
NASA
The space agency founded in 1958 that won the race to the Moon and became the symbol of American ambition
NATO
The 1949 alliance that bound America to Europe's defense and deterred the Soviet Union for forty years
The CIA
The Cold War spy agency created in 1947 for foreign intelligence — and covert action around the world
The NSA
The codebreaking agency founded in secret in 1952 to intercept the world's communications
United Nations
The international body America founded in 1945 — and has funded, led, and defied ever since
Technology (2)
ARPANET and the Birth of the Internet
The Cold War research network that grew into a global communications system
Nuclear Weapons
The weapon that redefined war, power, and the survival of nations
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