The 1945 meeting betwen the Allied partners underlined the differences between them, and set the stage for a post-war "cold" war that would be waged in the coming decades between two global ...

Now as the 25th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall approaches, CNN will re-air its epic 24-part landmark series to give viewers a chance to see how the events of yesterday have shaped the ...

Analyze the factors that shaped U.S. strategy during the Cold War CFR Education aims to build global affairs literacy by providing free, nonpartisan resources and programming to help high school and ...

The Weilheim was built during the Cold War to hunt naval mines and protect German sea lanes during a potential conflict in ...

For four decades, Castro stood at the center of a dangerous game for political pre-eminence in the Third World.

Hal Brands and Gareth Porter debate the resolution, "The Cold War was a necessary response by the United States to a Soviet and Chinese threat to the global balance of power." Hal Brands, senior ...

An end to which Cold War? / Walter LaFeber -- The Cold War, the long peace, and the future / John Lewis Gaddis -- Quiet cataclysm : some afterthoughts on World War III / John Mueller -- Some lessons ...

Champagne corks popped on December 3, 1989 as Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev and US president George H.W. Bush met on the cruise ship, Maxim Gorky, off the coast of Malta to declare the end of the ...

U.S. President Joe Biden, right, and Chinese President Xi Jinping shake hands before their meeting on the sidelines of the G20 summit meeting, Nov. 14, 2022, in Nusa Dua, in Bali, Indonesia. In ...

Gordon F. Sander is a writer and historian based in Riga, Latvia. He is the author of several works of military and Cold War history, including most recently, The Finnish Factor: Kekkonen, Kennedy, ...