From the doctrine of containment and the Korean War, through the civil rights movement, the Cuban Missile Crisis, the Moon landing, and the traumas of Vietnam and Watergate, to the Reagan years and the collapse of the Soviet Union. Slide across the years to relive America's long rivalry with the Soviet Union.
The Truman Doctrine and the Marshall Plan commit the United States to containing communism and rebuilding Western Europe, framing decades of global rivalry with the Soviet Union.
The Truman Doctrine and the Marshall Plan commit the United States to containing communism and rebuilding Western Europe, framing decades of global rivalry with the Soviet Union.
The Truman Doctrine and the Marshall Plan commit the United States to containing communism and rebuilding Western Europe, framing decades of global rivalry with the Soviet Union.
Around 1947 AD
Truman Doctrine & Union of the Dodecanese
Independence of India and Pakistan
Communists are expelled from government
The Truman Doctrine and the Marshall Plan
Outbreak of the Civil War
Italy Becomes a Republic
From the doctrine of containment and the Korean War, through the civil rights movement, the Cuban Missile Crisis, the Moon landing, and the traumas of Vietnam and Watergate, to the Reagan years and the collapse of the Soviet Union. Slide across the years to relive America's long rivalry with the Soviet Union.
The Truman Doctrine and the Marshall Plan commit the United States to containing communism and rebuilding Western Europe, framing decades of global rivalry with the Soviet Union.
The United States leads a UN force in the Korean War, while at home Senator Joseph McCarthy's hunt for communists fuels a climate of suspicion and fear.
The Supreme Court strikes down school segregation in Brown v. Board of Education, and the Montgomery bus boycott launches Martin Luther King Jr. and the civil rights movement.
For thirteen days the United States and Soviet Union stand on the edge of nuclear war over missiles in Cuba, before Kennedy and Khrushchev step back from the brink.
King's 'I Have a Dream' speech crowns the March on Washington; months later President Kennedy is assassinated in Dallas, shaking the nation.
Landmark civil rights and voting laws end legal segregation, even as President Johnson deepens American involvement in the divisive Vietnam War.
Neil Armstrong becomes the first human to walk on the Moon, a triumph of the space race and a defining moment of American technological achievement.
The Watergate scandal forces President Nixon to resign — the only president ever to do so — deepening public distrust of government amid Vietnam's end and economic malaise.
Ronald Reagan cuts taxes, builds up the military, and confronts the Soviet Union; his diplomacy with Gorbachev helps bring the Cold War toward a peaceful close.
The Soviet Union dissolves, leaving the United States as the world's sole superpower and opening a new, uncertain era in global affairs.