Cold War Primary Sources | Those Who Strove for Peace

• Eleanor Roosevelt
• Dwight D. Eisenhower: "Chance for Peace" Address
• Dwight D. Eisenhower: U.N. Speech "Peaceful Uses of Atomic Energy"

By 1952, both the democratic United States and the communist Soviet Union were locked in the Cold War (1945–91). The United States was ready to defend against communism anywhere in the world. With sixty member nations, the United Nations (UN), which formed in 1945 at the end of World War II (1939–45), struggled to become an important worldwide peacekeeping organization. Many critics said the UN was only a propaganda platform from which the communists...