After World War II, Germany was divided into what became two sectors: West Germany, controlled by the Western Allies (United ...

The IGY, they decided, would be celebrated in 1957.As part of the IGY, the Soviet Union vowed that it would launch an ...

extravehicular activity has helped provide the solutions to many problems that astronauts face in space On This Day in History The Nazi concentration and extermination camp was the site of the ...

In April 1954, Soviet spies Vladimir and Evdokia Petrov, masquerading as Canberra diplomats, defected to Australia. This Cold ...

The Soviet Union was plunged into a power struggle among ... delivering one of the most infamous moments in Cold War history. Enraged by Western criticism of Soviet policies, particularly ...

The Baltic States of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania, which had been independent between the two world wars, were annexed by the Kremlin in June of 1940, during the dramatic days when Paris fell to the ...

The 40,000,000-50,000,000 deaths in World War II make it the bloodiest conflict and the largest war in history. World War II changed the world map and geopolitics forever. In this war, America dropped ...

For most of American history, it was George Washington ... person with both reprehensible and admirable traits. In the Soviet Union, however, most citizens found it difficult to think historically ...

Receive free articles, highlights from the archive, news, details of prizes, and much more. The Soviet Union might seem the last place that the art duo Gilbert & George would achieve success. Yet as ...

A photographer's iconic shot of polar bears in abandoned buildings on a Russian island shines a spotlight on wider changes in ...

Laika was a three-year-old mixed terrier who was taken from the streets of Russia and thrust into a rocket in the name of ...