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 ...

When Johanna's baby, Erwin, was born on August 24, 1944, her father used Nazi connections to pack both mother and child off to German-occupied Czechoslovakia. Aware that the tide of war was ...

Old and young, healthy and sick, men and women, and even infants and infirm, were killed in cold blood. They were not combatants in civil war or rebellions, they were not criminals. Indeed, nearly all ...

This is the fifth episode in a seven-part series on the Cold War and the Vietnam War, brought to you by Bitesize GCSE History. Throughout this series, we are examining the key moments in the Cold War, ...

Gordievsky passed away on March 4 in England, where he had lived since defecting in 1985. Police confirmed Saturday that his death is not being treated as suspicious ...

During the Cold War, the threat of nuclear Armageddon was ... such as Poland, Romania, Czechoslovakia and Bulgaria. Opponents to the Soviets were arrested and many elections were rigged.

According to Dr. Koura, "This research underscores the complexity of Cold War alliances and how smaller states like ...

Ethiopia, Spain, Czechoslovakia and eventually Poland ... many living through those crisis years saw their own “cold war” ...

Trump is not Neville Chamberlain. Putin is not Adolf Hitler. The world of 2025 is not 1938. But the shakedown of Ukraine ...