This is a blog about world history in general, world war ii, i, vietnam war, middle ages, boer war, weapons, and biographies of famous people, etc.
The Berlin Airlift was the Allied air transport of food, fuel and other important materials to West Berlin between June 24, 1948, and May 12, 1949, during the Cold War as the Soviet Union had closed all roads and railways which connected the sector of Berlin under Allied control with West Germany. The main rationale for [...]
The Bay of Pigs Incident was an unsuccessful attempt by a CIA-trained force of Cuban refugees to invade southern Cuba, rally the local population and eventually overthrow the despotic government of Fidel Castro. The invasion attempt took place between April 17 and April 19, 1961, during the Cold War, after three months John F Kennedy [...]
The Berlin Wall was a long wall with guard towers and barbed wire which was built by East Germany during the Cold War, isolating West Berlin from the rest of Communist Germany. Officially called the "Anti-Fascist Protection Wall", this military barrier was more than 87 miles (120 km) long. The construction of the Berlin Wall [...]
Officially called European Recovery Program, the Marshall Plan was a post-war relief program for rebuilding war-torn Europe. It was implemented by the US government between 1948 and 1951. The program was named after Secretary of State George Marshall and was largely the creation of State Department officials, especially William L. Clayton and George F. Kennan. [...]
Robert McNamara (1916 – 2009) was the eighth Secretary of Defense of the United States of America. He served under Presidents John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson from 1961 to 1968. During the time he worked as Secretary of Defense he had to deal with major international issues, such as the Bay of Pigs [...]
The Suez Canal Crisis was a 1956 military conflict between Egypt on one side, and Great Britain, France and Israel on the other, during the Cold War. It arose when the Arab country decided to nationalize the Suez Canal, which was operated by a company of British and French stockholders. Background to the Suez Canal [...]
