Decisions made from the Oval Office of
Learn how domestic politics affected them.
And their subsequent impact on the world.
The Gallery of Cold War Presidents
Look through the gallery below and select the Cold War President of interest to view
a collection of carefully curated resources about their administration.
To Watch:
To Play:
Optional: Watch Midway (2019) Movie, available on Netflix and Amazon Prime.
Below is a short clip from the movie.
To Watch:
To Interact: US Foreign Aid Dashboard
To Consider: Foreign Aid in Larger Amount = More Generous?
To Consider: Korean War Bombing (Produced Using R & D3.js)
To Watch: Vietnam War In 25 Minutes (Only If You Need A Recap)
To Consider:
To Watch:
To Explore: The Nixon Project
To Consider: Why was there a "buffer period" before the public turned on Nixon?
To Peruse
To Watch:
To Observe: How Ford's Approval Ratings were affected after he grants Nixon a full pardon.
To Watch:
To Consider: A caricature about the Camp David Accords
Some Extra Data Vizualization
An interactive dashboard to visualize and compare the number of deaths/casualties in various wars.
Notice the clearly-defined inverse relationship between inflation levels and presidential approval ratings.
Conclusion (Big Ticket Questions)
Since both the main political parties hold views on the opposite ends of the spectrum, why is it that approval ratings by party seem to follow similar general trends?
Was placating both the Left and the Right a wise option? Or did it backfire and costed the President(s) support from both parties?
A Tableau Dashboard to compare the Approval Ratings of different Presidents (across number of years in office)• Note how the Approval Ratings change as the Election approaches (a consistent trend across the board)• Can you identify certain periods of a particular administration just based on the Approval Ratings? (i.e. Nixon's sharp decrease towards the end is a clear indication of the watergate scandal)• Is the Rally 'Round The Flag phenomenon true? Try identifying them on LBJ's Approval Rating graph
How To Use The Cold War Presidency Project?
Below are the 6 main sections of this project• Presidents - Where you can easily navigate to the President of Interest to explore some resources about their administration's decisions during the Cold War• Data Viz - These are a couple of extra data visualizations that might help you ponder a little bit more about how domestic politics affect the Administration's Cold War decisions• Games - Enjoy this intricately designed crossword game that contains all the important event/concepts that is covered in the UCLA CLUSTER 60CW course taught by Sean Ewing• Conclusion - Some data visualization techniques that could potentially help us answer our big ticket question: "Does domestic politics affect the administration's decisions disproportionately?"• Features - Tells you how to use The Cold War Presidency Project (i.e. this page!)• Author - A brief introduction to the author and the objective of this project
Author
The Cold War Presidency Project is the Jia Shing Wee's official Final Project for the 2022 CLUSTER 60CW course, as taught by Sean Ewing.As of Spring Quarter 2022, Jia Shing is a Freshman pre-majoring in Financial Actuarial Mathematics at UCLA. He is interested in creative ways to use data for storytelling. Hence, a big part of the project consists of graphs, plots, and interactive dashboards to visualize the impact/effectiveness of certain President's decisions during the Cold War.