Narrator: After World War Two, a 45-year struggle for global supremacy emerged: the Cold ... propaganda victory for the West and Berlin became a symbol of the allies’ keenness to oppose further ...

The expression “Cold War” reminds any lay observer of the post-Second World War cold war between the US and USSR, which unleashed a bipolar world order until 1991, when Soviet Russia disintegrated ...

Located on Straße des 17. Juni and close to the Brandenburg Gate, the Soviet War Memorial commemorates the Soviet soldiers who died during the Second World War. The Tiergarten Soviet War Memorial is ...

The end of the Cold War By the beginning of the 1980s, the Soviet Union faced several challenges. The taking down of the Berlin Wall in 1989 kick-started the fall of the Soviet Union.

In his highly praised book The Second Cold War: Carter, Reagan, and the Politics of Foreign Policy, historian Aaron Donaghy retells the story of that period, arguing that in both the case of Carter’s ...

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A Soviet strategy The criticism of Carter’s foreign policies seems particularly mistaken when it comes to the Cold War, a period defined by decades of hostility, mutual distrust and arms buildup ...

Her Fathom essay ‘Soviet ... its proxy war against its Cold War adversary, the United States. Moscow coopted the anti-imperialist, anti-colonialist and anti-racist concerns of these countries, ...

President Jimmy Carter, right, surrounded by journalists after announcing he was lifting the travel ban on Cuba, Vietnam, North Korea and Cambodia, March 9, 1977. AP Photo/file ...