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This is a timeline of the main events of the Cold War, a state of political and military tension after World War II between powers in the Western Bloc (the United States, its NATO allies and others) and powers in the Eastern Bloc (the Soviet Union, its allies in the Warsaw Pact and later the People's Republic of China).
Fault Lines: A History of the United States Since 1974 (WW Norton, 2019), scholarly history. excerpt; Olson, James S. ed. Historical Dictionary of the 1970s (1999) excerpt; Richards, Marlee. America in the 1970s (Twenty-First Century Books, 2010) online. Sandbrook, Dominic. Mad as Hell: The Crisis of the 1970s and the Rise of the Populist Right ...
World map of alliances in 1970 The 1975 Apollo-Soyuz space rendez-vous, one of the attempts at cooperation between the US and the USSR during the détenteThe Cold War (1962–1979) refers to the phase within the Cold War that spanned the period between the aftermath of the Cuban Missile Crisis in late October 1962, through the détente period beginning in 1969, to the end of détente in the ...
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The 1970 New York gubernatorial election was held on November 3, 1970 to elect the governor and lieutenant governor of New York. Incumbent Republican Governor Nelson Rockefeller defeated the Democratic nominee, former UN Ambassador and U.S. Supreme Court Justice Arthur Goldberg, by more than ten percentage points. On January 1, 1971 ...
Nelson Rockefeller 277 93 George Romney 186 Ronald Reagan 182 2 John V. Lindsay 10 Ohio Governor James A. Rhodes 55 — Massachusetts Senator Edward Brooke 1 Michigan Governor George Romney 50 — James A. Rhodes 1 New Jersey Senator Clifford Case 22 — Not Voting 16 Kansas Senator Frank Carlson 20 — — Arkansas Governor Winthrop ...
Megan Marshack, an aide to former New York governor and Vice President Nelson Rockefeller, was with him the night died suddenly in 1979. Marshack later lived and worked as a reporter in Placerville.
Nelson Rockefeller, after whom Rockefeller Republicans were named.. The Rockefeller Republicans were members of the United States Republican Party (GOP) in the 1930s–1970s who held moderate-to-liberal views on domestic issues, similar to those of Nelson Rockefeller, Governor of New York (1959–1973) and Vice President of the U.S. (1974–1977).