CIA intervention in the 1948 Italian election
1948 · Event
Covert American money and propaganda help the Christian Democrats defeat the Communists, the CIA's first big political operation.
On these timelines: Cold War, Italy (post-476 CE), Master
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- Truman Doctrine (1947)
- Long Telegram (1946)
- Iron Curtain speech (1946)
Around 1948
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- Manhattan Project (1942)