Cold War Primary Sources | Changing Superpower Relations in the 1970s and 1980s

• Richard M. Nixon: Informal Remarks with Newsmen (Nixon Doctrine)
• Richard M. Nixon: Excerpt from Remarks on Returning from China
• Ronald Reagan

Cold War rivalry in the 1960s was marked by dramatic tense events and often bloody hot spots. The Cold War was a prolonged conflict for world dominance from 1945 to 1991 between the two superpowers, the democratic, capitalist United States and the communist Soviet Union. The weapons of conflict were commonly words of propaganda and threats. During the John F. Kennedy (1917–1963; served 1961–63) and Lyndon B. Johnson (1908–1973; served...