Dwight David Eisenhower was born on 14 October 1890, at Denison, Texas, the third of seven sons of David Jacob and Ida Elizabeth Stover Eisenhower.…
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1 9 1 7 – 1 9 6 3 Born in 1917, John Fitzgerald Kennedy was the second son of a millionaire Democrat power-broker, Joseph…
1 8 9 4 – 1 9 7 1 A coal miner’s son from Kalinovka, Ukraine, Nikita Khrushchev became involved in trade union activities during…
As the 1950s dawned, a Communist attack seemed imminent. The Russians had grabbed Berlin and in 1949 had successfully tested their own A-bomb. China had…
In 1959 a revolution took place in Cuba and Fidel Castro came to power. He introduced a Soviet-style government on the island and he looked…
The founders of communism promised a new kind of state based on fairness and equality. Under the leadership of Leonid Brezhnev, Soviet communism moved a long…
The term ”Cold War” was first used by Bernard Baruch, advisor to US President Truman, in a speech made in April 1947. He spoke about…
In 1945, at the end of WWII, Germany was divided into a Soviet Zone in the East, and British, French and American Zone in the…
Fidel Castro overthrew the US-backed Batista dictatorship in January 1959 to take control of Cuba, and in 1960 he took over US oil refineries in the…