Europe Post WWII

Nuremberg Trials

Cases held by the Allies against representatives of defeated Nazi Germany for plotting and carrying out invasions of other countries and atrocities against their citizens in WWII

Berlin Airlift

The successful replenishing of food and other resources to citizens of West Berlin for 15 months following the soviet blockade

Marshall Plan

A US pledge of billions of dollars and resources to help rebuild Europe following WWII

Truman Doctrine

An American foreign policy that pledges Americana support for democracies against authoritarian threats; its chief concern was Eastern Europe and the increasing influence of the Soviet Union in that region

North-Atlantic Treaty Organizations (NATO)

An intergovernmental military alliance established in 1949 to provide collective security against the Soviet Union

Warsaw Pact

A collective defense treaty signed in Warsaw, Poland between the Soviet Union and seven other Eastern Blob socialist republics of Central and Eastern Europe in 1955

Operation Paperclip

A top secret US government program to bring tip German scientists from WWII into the US

Espionage

Government-sanctioned spying to obtain political military and other essential information

The KGB

The security and foreign intelligence agency of the SU

Julius and Ethel Rosenberg

A husband and wife found guilty of treason against the US and executed

Kim Philby

A member of the Cambridge Five, he was a top British government official overseeing all espionage against the SU while being a Soviet spy himself