Postwar US Foreign Policy

The Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) was the primary U.S. agency responsible for covert operations, including regime changes and intelligence gathering, throughout the Cold War.

The Cuban Missile Crisis in 1962 is widely considered the closest the world came to nuclear war during the Cold War, following the discovery of Soviet nuclear missiles in Cuba.

Castro's Agrarian Reform Law redistributed land, which included large holdings owned by U.S. corporations. This directly threatened U.S. economic interests in Cuba and led to increased hostility.

The Korean War (1950-1953) involved direct military conflict between Chinese forces and U.S.-led United Nations forces, marking a major escalation in Cold War tensions.

The Warsaw Pact was the military alliance formed by the Soviet Union in 1955 in response to NATO. It included the Soviet Union and Eastern European satellite states. NATO is Western, SEATO was in Southeast Asia, and CENTO was in the Middle East.

The Korean War began in 1950 and ended with an armistice in 1953, placing it firmly in the 1950s.

The Taliban was the de facto government of Afghanistan from 1996 until the US-led invasion in 2001. Al-Qaeda was a militant group hosted by the Taliban, not the government itself.

North Korea's policy of Juche, or self-reliance, emphasizes national autonomy and economic independence, which has led to extreme political and economic isolation from the global community.

US President Franklin D. Roosevelt and British Prime Minister Winston Churchill drafted the "Declaration of United Nations" at the White House in 1941. They also incorporated suggestions of the Soviet Union in the draft. So, the US, the UK, and the Soviet Union were the nations who conceived and formed the United Nations and its functions.

The New Deal was the set of federal programs launched by President Franklin D. Roosevelt after taking office in 1933, in response to the calamity of the Great Depression, and lasting until the American entry into the Second World War in 1942. In less than a decade, the New Deal changed the face of America and laid the foundation for success in World War II and the prosperity of the postwar era – the greatest and fairest epoch in American history. 

The Warsaw Pact was a military alliance between the Soviet Union and its satellite states in Eastern Europe. The United States was not a member of the Warsaw Pact.

The U-2 was an American spy plane that was designed to fly at high altitudes and take photographs of enemy territory. In 1960, a U-2 piloted by Francis Gary Powers was shot down over the Soviet Union, leading to a major international crisis.

The Berlin Blockade was a Soviet attempt to starve West Berlin into submission in 1948. The blockade was lifted in 1949, but it marked the beginning of the Cold War.

The fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989 is considered to be the end of the Cold War. The wall was a symbol of the division between East and West Germany, and its fall marked the beginning of a new era of cooperation between the two countries.

The Tehran Conference was held in Tehran, Iran, from November 28 to December 1, 1943, and it was attended by the leaders of the Allied Powers: Franklin D. Roosevelt, Winston Churchill, and Joseph Stalin.