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Cold War

United States of America · Government / Democratic Party Government. Chronological records rendered directly from the World History Database.

4Records
1950–1995Date range
3Named people
2Places

Chronological records

1950

Dean Gooderham Acheson16 March 1950

Government / Democratic Party Government

Makes a speech suggesting ways in which Russia can end the Cold War

1961

John Fitzgerald KennedyJune 1961

Vienna · Government / Democratic Party Government

Kennedy attends a summit with Premier Khrushchev in Vienna to discuss cold war confrontations between the east & west, in particular the situation in Berlin

1962

John Fitzgerald Kennedy3 February 1962

Geneva · Government / Democratic Party Government

In response to the Cuban alignment with the Soviet Union during the Cold War, President John F. Kennedy extended measures by Executive Order, widening the scope of the trade restrictions

1995

William Jefferson Bill Clinton4 September 1995

Government / Democratic Party Government

Japanese-American relations are strained after the rape of a 12 yr schoolgirl by two US marines and a sailor, citing the end of the cold war, critics question the need to keep 45,000 US troops in Japan

Names involved

Dean Gooderham AchesonJohn Fitzgerald KennedyWilliam Jefferson Bill Clinton

Provenance

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