Article: COLD WAR: THE RUSSIANS ARE COMING! H-BOMBS, MCCARTHYISM AND ESPIONAGE ARE BYWORDS OF THE CONFLICT BETWEEN EAST AND WEST.(OUR MILLENNIUM)

Byline: BROWN H. CARPENTER, STAFF WRITER

THE COLD WAR zigged and zagged during the 1950s, heating up to a shooting skirmish in Korea, then easing off when the leader of the Soviet Union was invited to the United States for a friendly visit.

Threatening words and bellicose propaganda continued between Washington and Moscow, but the competition took a different turn in 1957 when the Russians orbited two Sputnik satellites around the Earth, sending America into a panic of self-doubt and a flurry of rocket launching.

The 1952 election of Dwight D. Eisenhower to the U.S. presidency ended 20 years of Democratic occupation of the White House, but the ...

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