Cold War and protest politics

The United States and the Soviet Union during the Cold War after WWII jockeyed for power, Europe through NATO and the Warsaw Pact military affairs dominating, respectively. While engaged in proxy wars and developed powerful nuclear arsenals, the two countries avoided direct military conflict. U.S. Third World leftist movement that is often seen in opposition to the Soviet Union sponsored. U.S. troops 1950-53 Korean War and the Chinese Communist Party's war against North Korea. House Un - American Activities Committee investigation into suspected leftist subversion in a series of shana, Senator Joseph McCarthy during the figurehead of anticommunist Ross.
1961 Soviet launch of manned space available for the first time to the United States in 1969, "The Moon is a man" to get to the first call of President John F. Kennedy instructions. Kennedy also faced a tense final atomic Cuba with Soviet forces. Meanwhile, the United States experienced sustained economic expansion. Different regions of white nationalist groups, including the Ku Klux Klan, the growing civil rights movement used nonviolence to confront segregation and discrimination exist. And this is symbolized as Rosa Parks and Martin Luther King Jr., led the Americans as black. On the other hand, some black nationalist groups like the Black Panther Party was more of an opportunity.
After Kennedy was assassinated in 1963, 1964 and 1965 Civil Rights Act, Voting Rights Act under President Lyndon B. Johnson. Accepted, [67] [68] He signed into law the Medicare and Medicaid programs. [69] Johnson and his successor, Richard Nixon, a proxy war in Southeast Asia into the unsuccessful Vietnam War expanded. A large counterculture movement, growth, war, black nationalism, and the sexual revolution swept the opposition. Betty Friedan, Gloria Steinem, and others, a new wave of feminism that political equality, social and economic status of women has been sought.
In 1974, as a result of Watergate, Nixon became the first U.S. president to resign, to avoid being accused of abuse of power and obstruction of justice. Jimmy Carter administration in the late 1970s stagflation and the hostage crisis in Iran was identified. In 1980, the election of President Ronald Reagan and move like a U.S. policy to the right, reflected changes in tax and spending priorities announced. The second term of office in the Iran - Contra and significant diplomatic progress with the Soviet Union brought. The Soviet collapse ended the Cold War.