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JFK and the Cold War

After WWII came the Cold War. The main enemies were the United States and the Soviet Union. Though these two countries never actually fought each other directly. When John F. Kennedy became president in the middle of the Cold War, some progress was made in the tensions of the war. In 1963, the two sides made a major arms control agreement. But this was just the middle of the war. After many events such as the Cuban Missile Crisis and the Vietnam war, the Cold War ended in 1991.