Houston / Washington / Vienna / Geneva / Baltimore / New York / Washington / DC / Berlin / Cambridge / Beijing / /
Continent
America / Europe / Africa / Asia / /
Country
Cuba / Afghanistan / North Korea / Korea / China / Israel / East Germany / Germany / Turkey / Russia / United States / Soviet Union / Angola / Vietnam / South Korea / Southeast Asia / /
Event
Diplomatic Relations / Person Communication and Meetings / Political Endorsement / Person Travel / /
Facility
John F. Kennedy Library / Richard Nixon Library / University of Kentucky / American University / NASA Headquarters / /
Holiday
Christmas / /
IndustryTerm
delivery systems / partial solution / earth satellite / gas stations / /
MedicalCondition
Red Hysteria / /
Movie
I Married a Communist / John Wayne / /
NaturalFeature
Persian Gulf / /
Organization
U.S. government / American University / Central Intelligence Agency / KGB / Saigon government / National Liberation Front / Cuba’s government / Congress / University of Kentucky / National Aeronautics and Space Administration / /
Person
Marilyn Monroe / Obama / Lyndon Johnson / Melvyn P. Leffler / Richard Nixon / Henry Jackson / George Kennan / Vladislav Zubok / Green Berets / Jimmy Carter / Bob Dylan / Fidel Castro / Stalin / Nikita Khrushchev / George C. Herring / Henry Kissinger / John Lewis Gaddis / John F. Kennedy / Walter Lippmann / Muhammad Ali / Tom Brokaw / Truman / Stephen J. Whitfield / Strangelove / Cold War / Crisis / II / Constantine Pleshakov / Walter LaFeber / Martin Luther King / Jr. / Maxwell Smart / Gerald Ford / Ronald Reagan / John Wayne / /
Position
butcher / led President / President / Soviet diplomat / Vice President / official / Professor of History Emeritus / historian /diplomat / Major / spy / U.S. official / journalist / /
The Cold War as Context George C. Herring 1961–1981: by any measure, an extraordinary age. It was a time of political giants, JFK, Martin Luther King, Jr., Ronald Reagan; of larger-than-life politicians with feet of