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The 34th President of the United States from 1953 until 1961. He was a five-star general in the United States Army during World War II
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Chinese Communist revolutionary and the founding father of the People's Republic of China
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the 36th President of the United States, a position he assumed after his service as the 37th Vice President
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the 37th President of the United States, serving from 1969 to 1974
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American medical researcher and virologist. He discovered and developed the first successful inactivated polio vaccine.
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American politician who served as the 35th President of the United States from January 1961 until his assassination in November 1963
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American pilot whose Central Intelligence Agency U-2 spy plane was shot down while flying a reconnaissance mission over Soviet Union airspace, causing the 1960 U-2 incident.
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was a former member of the United States Army Special Forces and retired United States Army master sergeant who received the Medal of Honor for his valorous actions
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American political and social activist who co-founded the Youth International Party
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American emergency law that increased Federal power during World War II
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a committee of the U.S. House of Representatives, investigated allegations of communist activity in the U.S. during the early years of the Cold War
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political hostility between countries characterized by threats
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were the countries that were connected to or influenced by the Soviet Union
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established that the United States would provide political, military and economic assistance to all democratic nations under threat from external or internal authoritarian forces
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was a United States policy to prevent the spread of communism abroad. A component of the Cold War
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was an American initiative to aid Europe and Asia, in which the United States gave $13 billion
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t the end of the Second World War, U.S., British, and Soviet military forces divided and occupied Germany
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a vociferous campaign against alleged communists in the US government and other institutions carried out under Senator Joseph McCarthy
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conflict between Communist and non-Communist forces in Korea
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Judge Irving R. Kaufman presides over the espionage prosecution of the couple accused of selling nuclear secrets to the Russians
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at speculated that if one state in a region came under the influence of communism, then the surrounding countries would follow in a domino effect.
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armed conflict that pitted the communist regime of North Vietnam and its southern allies
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was a pivotal moment in the Cold War.
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a social movement, usually in opposition to a particular nation's decision to start or carry on an armed conflict, unconditional of a maybe-existing just cause
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set of domestic programs in the United States launched by President Lyndon B. Johnson
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to take any measures he believed were necessary to retaliate and to promote the maintenance of international peace and security in southeast Asia.
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coordinated series of fierce attacks on more than 100 cities and towns in South Vietnam.
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policy of the Richard Nixon administration during the Vietnam War to end U.S. involvement in the war
