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Space Race
The space race was a 20th-century competition between two Cold War rivals, the United States and the Soviet Union, to achieve the best spaceflight capability.
Cold War
Spanning approximately 45 years between 1947 and 1991, wherein no direct battles were fought, the Cold War was a period of intense geopolitical tension between the United States and the Soviet Union.
1950s America
The 1950s were a decade marked by the post-World War II boom, the dawn of the Cold War and the civil rights movement in the United States
Coal Towns
Coal towns were company-owned towns that had no elected officials and no independent police forces. They paid workers in company-issued currency, called scrip, and pressured mining families to shop exclusively for food, fuel, and other necessities at the coal operator's own stores.
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