Puppy Diplomacy and the Cold War America ExplainedIn 1961, a gift from Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev to President John F. Kennedy, the adorable pooch Pushinka, brought the men closer together. Did puppy diplomacy prevent an all-out nuclear...
The Story of the CIA America Explained, Government ExplainedCIA agents make it their business to be intelligent. They may know more about you than you think. But what do you know about the...
The Botched Invasion: Bay of Pigs America ExplainedOne of the Cold War’s only violent actions, the Bay of Pigs invasion of Cuba in 1961 proved to be a humiliating defeat for the U.S....