Cold War (US/Western Focus) - Fall 2024 (HIST 27/127)

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Cold War (US/Western Focus) - Fall 2024 (HIST 27/127)

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Russian-Language Broadcasts by Fund to Soviet Personnel in Eastern European Satellite Countries
A Free Europe Committee memorandum which outlines potential broadcasting to target Soviet troops.

AUSTRIA. Vienna. 1961. John F. Kennedy and Nikita KHRUSHCHEV.

CIA briefing board for JFK showing range of Soviet MRBMs (Bobby Kennedy on 16 October jokingly asked whether the missiles could hit Oxford, Mississippi, where federal marshals had intervened only two weeks earlier, so Oxford was included). PSALM was the special codeword for intelligence data on missiles in Cuba, a compartment created at President Kennedy’s insistence for greater control of this sensitive information.

"How did atomic energy information leak out to the damn scientists in the first place?"
political cartoon implying that there are communists among U.S. scientists during the red scare

"Wolf! Wolf"
political cartoon pointing out rampant false charges of communism during the red scare

October 14, 1962: U-2 photograph of MRBM site two nautical miles away from the Los Palacios deployment – the second set of MRBMs found in Cuba. This site was subsequently named San Cristobal no. 1 (the photo is labeled 15 October for the day it was analyzed and printed).

Graphic from Military History Quarterly of the U.S. invasion plan, 1962.

November 6, 1962: Soviet personnel and six missile transporters loading onto ship transport at Casilda port. (Note shadow at lower right of RF-101 reconnaissance jet taking the photograph.)

UNITED STATES GIFTS AND LOANS COMPARED WITH GROSS NATIONAL PRODUCT
A table that show the gift and loan budget given by United State
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