Nuclear armament of the U.S. and the USSR in the 1940s; establishment of NATO and the Warsaw Pact; the Space Race; the Cuban Missile Crisis; glasnost and perestroika in the USSR; the fall of the ...

The blockade of Berlin was the first serious crisis of the Cold War. By 1948, the Western allies began moving towards consolidating their occupation zones in Western Germany into a single ...

The Cuban Missile Crisis happened one year after the construction of the Berlin Wall, which was a major source of Cold War tension in Europe. America and the Soviet Union were competing in the ...

Germany is planning to pump billions into defense spending, but the need to better prepare goes well beyond the Bundeswehr.

As I wrote in “The Worst Cold War Documentary Ever Made,” the series did not address the Korean War, the Soviet invasion of Hungary in 1956, the Berlin Crisis of 1958, a brief Chinese ...

The Berlin blockade and subsequent airlift proved to be a public relations bonanza for the United States in the Cold War against the ... describe the Berlin crisis around the world, as well ...

Berlin—“How do you feel about everything ... an area that was a no man’s land through the Cold War and became a central point in the city again after the wall came down.