The Impact of the Cold War around the World
On October 22, 1956, Hungarians took to Parliament Square in Budapest to protest the Pro-Stalinist regime in Hungary. The movement, led mainly by students and workers, advocated for economic and social reforms and the removal of Stalinist leaders like Mátyás
Read moreA Soviet supply truck entering Afghanistan in March of 1956. On March 11, 1956, the Soviet Union and the government of Afghanistan struck an economic agreement that would modernize and industrialize Afghan society. The funds were not limited to military
Read moreThe Bay of Pigs Invasion was an attempt to overthrow Fidel Castro’s communist Cuba in a three-day invasion of Cuba from April 17 to April 20, 1961. The invasion was fought by Cuban exiles that were influenced and were supposed
Read moreIn 1947, Yugoslavia and the other “Eastern Bloc” nations strongly rejected the United States’ Marshall Plan aid at the demand of Joseph Stalin. Only one year later, in 1948, Yugoslavia’s leader, Josip Broz Tito split with Stalin and established Yugoslavia
Read moreIn February 1948, Czechoslovakia was Joseph Stalin’s next recruit for his Communist orchestra developing in the Eastern Bloc. The once democratically elected nation converted into a “People’s Democracy,” almost overnight. Reactionary forces, made up of Ministers of the Social Democratic
Read moreJapanese Prime Minister Yoshida Shigeru signs the San Francisco Peace Treaty on September 8th, 1951 On September 8th, 1951, representatives from Japan and the United States signed the Security Treaty Between the United States and Japan in San Francisco,
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In August of 1953, the United States and Britain directed a covert operation to overthrow the government of the Iranian prime minister, Mohammed Mossadegh, and replace it with a new one led by Reza Pahlevi, the constitutional monarch, or shah,
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A New Berlin The divided city of Berlin experienced quite disparate fortunes, with West Berlin flourishing while the Eastern side toiled. In search of better fortunes, thousands of East Germans fled west across the border, weakening not only the city
Read moreThe battle for Guatemala In June 1954 the Eisenhower Administration supported a Central Intelligence Agency led coup to overthrow the Guatemalan President Jacobo Arbenz Guzman. CIA director Allen Dulles viewed Arbenz’s policies towards nationalizing Guatemalan resources as a communist threat
Read moreIn the summer of 1959, the United States and the Soviet Union had mirror exhibitions in each other’s countries that were meant to showcase their technological prowess. The infamous “kitchen debate” took place in the Soviet Union during the American
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