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Cold War history of the United States
- New Look (policy)The New Look was not a fashion statement. It was the name Dwight D. Eisenhower gave to his national security policy, and it rested on a simple, radical idea…
- Washington Summit (1987)The Washington Summit of 1987 brought Ronald Reagan and Mikhail Gorbachev together for three days in December at the White House.
- Presidency of Ronald ReaganRonald Reagan's tenure as the 40th president of the United States began with his first inauguration on the 20th of January 1981.
- Reagan DoctrinePresident James Monroe issued the Monroe Doctrine in 1823 to establish a new boundary for American foreign policy. Theodore Roosevelt followed with his own…
- Presidency of Harry S. TrumanThe Presidency of Harry S. Truman began not with an election, but with a phone call. On the 12th of April 1945, Truman was urgently summoned to the White…
- Strategic Arms Limitation TalksThe Strategic Arms Limitation Talks began in Helsinki in November 1969, at a moment when the United States already held 1,054 intercontinental ballistic…
- Bay of Pigs InvasionThe Bay of Pigs Invasion ended in total defeat within three days. On the 20th of April 1961, the invading force of Cuban exiles surrendered to the Cuban…
- NSC 68NSC 68 opened with a stark warning: the issues at stake were momentous. As the document itself put it, they involved "the fulfillment or destruction not only…
- Marshall PlanThe Marshall Plan sent $13.3 billion across the Atlantic to rebuild a continent that had been reduced to rubble. Named after Secretary of State George C.
- X ArticleThe Sources of Soviet Conduct, known as the X Article, ran in the July 1947 issue of Foreign Affairs, signed only with the letter X.
- Cuban Missile CrisisThe Cuban Missile Crisis lasted exactly 13 days in October 1962, and during those 13 days, the world's two nuclear superpowers came closer to destroying each…