People of the Revolution and the USSR
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Democratic Party (United States)
The Cold War and decolonization 1945–현재
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GlossaryDemocratic Party (United States)
- Harry S. Truman Harry S. Truman The 33rd president who framed the Cold War with the Truman Doctrine and the Marshall Plan
- Adlai Ewing Stevenson Adlai Ewing Stevenson Two-time presidential nominee who pressed the Soviet Union over its missiles in Cuba at the UN Security Council
- James Webb James Edwin Webb The administrator who organized Apollo
- Lyndon B. Johnson Lyndon B. Johnson A Cold War president caught between reform and war
- Robert McNamara Robert McNamara The quantitative defense secretary who led the Vietnam War and helped prevent nuclear war in the Cuban Missile Crisis
- John F. Kennedy John F. Kennedy The youngest U.S. president, who took the world to the brink of nuclear war and back
- Jimmy Carter Jimmy Carter The 39th U.S. president whose administration marked both the peak and the end of détente
- Ted Sorensen Ted Sorensen Kennedy's speechwriter whose pen chose 'quarantine' over airstrikes at the nuclear brink