
President John F. Kennedy and Soviet Foreign Minister
Andrei Gromyko meet at the White House, with former U.S. ambassador
to the Soviet Union Llewellyn Thompson (in middle) (October 18,
1962). |
The stand-off between the United States and
the Soviet Union permeated the politics and culture of the
United States from the end of the Second World War through
the early 1960s. This course will explore the origins of the
Cold War, the terms on which it was fought, and the degree
to which it imposed a political and cultural “consensus” on
the United States. |