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Venona Papers
Venona papers is a List of names ostensibly deciphered from codenames contained in the Venona project, an American government effort from 1943 - 1980 to decrypt coded messages by intellegence forces of the Soviet Union. -
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Cold War
The Cold War was a state of political and military tension after World War II between the Soviet Union and United States since the Soviet Union wanted to spread communism the U.S. revolted. -
Truman Doctrine
The Truman Doctrine was an American foreign policy to stop Soviet imperialism during the Cold War. -
The Marshall Plan
The Marshall plan was an American initiative to aid Western Europe, in which the United States gave $13 billion in economic support to help rebuild Western European economies after the end of World War II. -
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Berlin Blockade & Airlift
The Berlin Blockade was one of the first major international crises of the Cold War. During the multinational occupation of post-World War II Germany, the Soviet Union blocked the Western Allies' railway, road, and canal access to the sectors of Berlin under Western control. -
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The Korean War
Was a war between North and South Korea, in which a United Nations force led by the United States of America fought for the South, and China fought for the North, which was also assisted by the Soviet Union. The north wanted to extend its communist ideas to the south. The war spanded for 3 years. -
Sputnik
The Soviet Union let out the first artificial Earth satelite on October 4, 1957 because they wanted domination of space. -
U2 Spy Plane Incident
The United States let out spy plane being flown by the CIA pilot Francis Gary Powers who was performing photographic aireal reconnaissance but later shot down by the Soviets on May 1, 1960. -
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Bay of Pigs Invasion
The invasion was a failed military invasion of Cuba undertaken by the CIA through April 17, 1961 to April 19, 1961 to overthrow the communist government of Fidel Castro. -
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Berlin Wall
The Berlin Wall was a barrier that divided Berlin from 1961 to 1989. Constructed by the German Democratic Republic.
