In the nineteenth century, the British government was obsessed with checking perceived Russian expansion in Afghanistan, the Balkans, China, the Dardanelles, Persia, and Poland—even if only Crimea ...
While at Potsdam, Truman heard that Americans had detonated the first successful atomic weapon ... Soviet Communism soon dominated Eastern Europe. The Cold War had begun.
When European Union leaders met in Brussels on February 6th to discuss the war in Ukraine, French President Emmanuel Macron ...
Threads may not be the most popular war film, but its harrowing content is an immensely powerful testament to Cold War fears.
but the Americans achieved the first moon landing. During the Cold War, the threat of nuclear Armageddon was an everyday fear. By the 1980s, Mikhail Gorbachev was reforming the Soviet Union as ...
at the very least. In this sequel to his survey of the first years of the Cold War, Professor Jonathan House clears away the fog covering a lot we never understood back then. He begins by carefully ...
Discover how the Cold War turned hot for the first time, on the Korean peninsula in the early 1950s. Kill 'em All': The American Military in Korea - Jeremy Williams explores the repercussions of a ...
There is now a new cold war taking shape. This is different in scope and substance compared to the one waged after the end of the Second World War. Then the contestants were what was at that time ...