The Berlin Wall, erected in 1961 at the height of the Cold War, was the physical embodiment of the political division between the East and the West, the United States and the Soviet Union. Two of the most famous presidential speeches of the Cold War—"Ich bin ein Berliner" by John F....
just three years before World War I began. He worked up through the ranks from infantryman to captain, instructor, major, and lieutenant colonel before the first world war drew to a close. By the time the second war rolled around, Eisenhower had worked in varying capacities such as...