Between 1946 and 1989, the United States was locked in a tense period of political tension with the Soviet Union (also known as the USSR). Although …
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The Cold War Explored
From the space race to paranoia — the Cold War is still impacting us today. Discover some key Cold War moments, and conflicts many long-lasting effects.
The first decade of the Cold War sparked tremendous fear that communists were trying to infiltrate and undermine the American way of life. Seeing the …
Just about as quickly as WWII ended, the Cold War began. Stalin had lost 11 million troops during the war, and he sought to mitigate any encroachment …
Although differing art perspectives were simply one ideological aspect of the Cold War, they were very important in influencing Western Europe’s …
After initial successes in checking communist expansion and Soviet aggression with the Korean War and Cuban Missile Crisis, the United States plunged …
The Soviet Union dominated the world stage for almost 70 years. It fought alongside the allies in World War II. Under Stalin, it secured a sphere of …
On the hot summer morning of the 19th of August, the citizens of Russia woke up to find every TV channel broadcasting a recording of Tchaikovsky’s …
When Vladimir Lenin, the leader of the Russian Revolution, died in 1924, the fate of the Soviet Union and its leadership was left to two men: Leon …
