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 ...

In an obvious threat to the allied air rights into the city, the Soviets charged that Western allies were abetting the schemes of the West Berlin industrialists by flying war materiel across East ...

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 ...

Many feared the world was on the verge of war. Four players from Scotland's team recall playing hockey and politics as they came face to face with the shocking reality of the Berlin Crisis.

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 ...

In a chilling speech this morning, the Foreign Secretary said the world will 'not get back to normal' amid Russia's invasion of Ukraine and the Middle East crisis ... the Cold War manual' and ...