The Cold War was a strategic and tactical contest to influence the nature of the governments and societies of the world’s countries. On one hand, the United States and its allie… See more

Fearing that poverty, unemployment, and dislocation were reinforcing the appeal of communist parties to voters in post-World War II western Europe, the United States implemente… See more

In 1947, with Greece embroiled in a civil war provoked by Communists, Britain was forced to suspend economic and military aid to Greece and Turkey. Worried that if those two c… See more

Launched by Soviet Communist Party First Secretary Nikita Khrushchev at the 20th Party Congress (1956), De-Stalinization was a program of political reform that condemne… See more

Formulated by diplomat George F. Kennan and first pursued in the late 1940s, Containment was a U.S. foreign policy aimed at checking the alleged expansionist intentions o… See more