

President Kennedy delivered an Inaugural Address during the height of the Cold War, initiating a space race:

The Cold War spanned over four decades of American history, beginning with the paranoia of McCarthyism, a political witch hunt for communists: Hey teachers and students - Check out CommonLit's free collection of reading passages and curriculum resources to learn more about the events of this episode. This setup would spill across the world, with client states on both sides. Basically, the Soviets occupied Eastern Europe and the US-supported western Europe. This week we'll talk about how the Cold War started. There was plenty of fighting, from Korea to Viet Nam to Afghanistan, but we'll get into that stuff next week. The Cold War was called cold because of the lack of actual fighting, but this is inaccurate. In which John Green teaches you about the Cold War, the decades-long conflict between the USA and the USSR.
