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Cold War history of the United States
- New Look (policy)President Dwight D. Eisenhower entered the White House in January 1953 with a clear priority to balance national security needs against the nation's…
- Washington Summit (1987)The Washington Summit of 1987 took place on the 8th of December 10 between United States president Ronald Reagan and General Secretary Mikhail Gorbachev.
- 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 68A 66-page top secret policy paper titled United States Objectives and Programs for National Security arrived on President Harry S.
- 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 ArticleOn the evening of the 9th of February 1946, Joseph Stalin stood before a packed audience at Moscow's Bolshoi Theatre. He spoke for nearly two hours about…
- 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…