1. 1968: A Year of Crisis
In an eleven day visit from visit from Soviet Union leader Nikita Khrushchev he challenged the merits of communism versus capitalism in one of his famous debates with Russian leader. ... "It was brilliant, daring, and diplomatic stroke, perhaps the boldest of the twentieth century and undoubtedly would have been the defining acts of his presidency were it not for Watergate" (Ragone 225). ...
The Vietnamese War, as defined to me in the New Standard Encyclopedia, was " an undeclared war for the control of South Vietnam, starting in 1957 and ending in 1975." ... The United States feared that Communism would spread, and President Eisenhower's Domino Theory was born. ...