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People (12)

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

Jackson Pollock

The poured canvases and the short fame, 1912-1956

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

The first human to set foot on the moon

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

Pioneer of modern rocketry who launched the world's first liquid-fueled rocket in 1926

40th President of the United States, 1981–1989

Places (9)

Seward's Icebox — America's largest and most remote state

The Florida Launch Site That Has Carried American Ambitions Into Space Since 1950

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 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

The CIA's Failed Invasion of Cuba and Kennedy's Defining Early Crisis, April 1961

The 11-Month Mission That Defied the Soviet Blockade, 1948–1949

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

The "Forgotten War" that established the Cold War's logic of limited conflict, 1950–1953

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 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

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

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 (10)

Abstract Expressionism

The New York School and the moment the center moved

America's Cold War strategy to halt the spread of Soviet communism

Nixon and Kissinger's strategy of easing Cold War tensions through direct diplomacy

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

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 (6)

The Tiffany Network, from Murrow to Cronkite, founded 1927

The space agency founded in 1958 that won the race to the Moon and became the symbol of American ambition

The 1949 alliance that bound America to Europe's defense and deterred the Soviet Union for forty years

The Cold War spy agency created in 1947 for foreign intelligence — and covert action around the world

The codebreaking agency founded in secret in 1952 to intercept the world's communications

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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