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Truman Doctrine
With the Truman Doctrine, President Harry S. Truman established that the United States would provide political, military and economic assistance to all democratic nations under threat from external or internal authoritarian forces. -
McCarthyism
McCarthy's Wheeling Speech. Senator Joe McCarthy and chief counsel Roy Cohn interrogating suspected communists. -
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Korean War
World War II divided Korea into a Communist, northern half and an American-occupied southern half, divided at the 38th parallel. -
Election of Eisenhower
The United States presidential election of 1952 was that nation's 42nd quadrennial presidential election, held on Tuesday, November 4, 1952. Republican Dwight D. -
start of Vietnam War
The Vietnam War began as a civil conflict that pitted the North Vietnamese Communist government and the South Vietnamese Communist rebels known as the Viet Cong against the non-Communist South Vietnamese government. -
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Cuban Missile Crisis
The Cuban Missile Crisis, also known as the October Crisis, the Caribbean Crisis, or the Missile Scare, was a 13-day (October 16–28, 1962) confrontation between the United States and the Soviet Union concerning American ballistic missile deployment in Italy and Turkey with consequent Soviet ballistic missile deployment in Cuba. -
LBJ becomes president
In the 1960 campaign, Lyndon B. Johnson was elected Vice President as John F. Kennedy's running mate. -
End of Vietnam War
1975 marked the end of the Vietnam War. After the South Vietnamese army folded under NVA pressure the Fall of Saigon was inevitable. The US started evacuating its citizens but to not alarm the South Vietnamese they left under a number of pretexts including Operation Babylift. On April 30, 1975 Saigon fell and the Vietnam War was over. -
Election of Ford
The United States presidential election of 1976 was the 48th quadrennial presidential election, held on Tuesday, November 2, 1976. The winner was the relatively unknown Jimmy Carter. -
Fall of Berlin Wall
The Berlin Wall was a guarded concrete barrier that physically and ideologically divided Berlin from 1961 to 1989.
