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Venona Project (papers)
a counter-intelligence program initiated by the United States Army Signal Intelligence service. Attempted to decrypt messages sent by the Soviet Union intelligences agencies -
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Cold War
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Truman Doctrine
An American foreign policy to stop Soviet imperialism during the Cold War.Pledged to contain Soviet threats to Greece and Turkey. -
Containment Policy
A military strategy to stop the expansion of an enemy. Best known as the cold war policy of the United States and its allies to prevent the spread of communism abroad. Response to a series of moves by the Soviet Union to enlarge communist influence in Eastern Europe. -
Marshall Plan
A program of financial aid and other initatives, sponsered by the US, designed to boost the econmics of western European countries after world war2 -
Berlin Airlift
The Berlin Blockade was one of the first major international crises of the Cold War.The Soviets offered to drop the blockade if the Western Allies withdrew the newly introduced mark from West Berlin -
Mccathyism
the practice of making accusations of subversion or treason without proper regard for evidence.making unfair allegations -
Rosenberg Trial
Julius and Ethe; Greengrass were American citizens executed for conspiracy to commit espionage, relating to passing information about the atomic bomb to the Soviet Union. -
Sputnik
The very first artifical earth satellite. The soviet union launched it into Earth's orbit on October 4,1957. Visible all around the Earth and its radio pulses were detectable. -
Mao Zedong
Former chairman of the Communist party of China. Founding father of the people's republic of China. -
Iron Curtain
The physical boundary dividing Europe into two separate areas from the end of World War II in 1945 until the end of the Cold War in 1991
