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…to anti-Communist forces in Greece and Turkey, but it was later expanded to justify support for any nation that the United States government believed was threatened by Communism during the Cold War period.2 Moves and Countermoves U.S. officials…

…In August 1948, Whittaker Chambers, charged that Alger Hiss, was a Communist spy. Chambers claimed that he and Hiss had belonged to the same spy group and that Hiss had given him secret State Department documents. This group was a network of American…

…After the end of World War 2, two superpowers emerged as they had come out of the war very strong. These two superpowers were the USA and the USSR. The USA believed in the capitalist system while the USSR believed in the communist system of government…

…reached a new low. The Truman Doctrine did not deteriorate relations between East and West as much as the Marshall Plan. After the defeat of Nazi Germany the civil war that was going on in Greece between the monarchists and the communists came more into focus…

…in the historical records in the future. On November 9th, 1989, the leader of the East Berlin Communist party, Gunter Schabowski, announced that the border with the West Berlin would be opened. This significant event will be recorded in historical records forever. After…

…to withdraw. Greece was occupied by German, Italian, and Bulgarian troops, and the government fled to England. In 1944 the Germans withdrew from Greece, and the government returned under British protection. A serious problem arose when the Communists, who had led…

…When the communists took over a country, one of the first things that they did was to confiscate all the privately-held weapons, to deny the people the physical ability to resist tyranny. But even more insidious than the theft of the people's weapons…

…to contain it. The French also invoked the Truman Doctrine as, technically, they were fighting against a communist aggressor. America sent supplies, equipment and money to Vietnam for the French soldiers. The war with France ended in 1954 with Ho chi Minh…

…of the FBI and CIA. Lee Harvey Oswald was a low level agent for one of them. The "Russian Communist plot" Theory: The assassination was planned by the KGB in the Soviet Union. The assassination was organized be communist agents working for Russia. It involved…

…The Petrov Affair During the Cold War between Communist and democratic nations in the late 1940's, Communism was feared by many Australians. Menzies exploited that fear during his time as prime minister. But his attempts to outlaw the Communist Party…