Soviet Union

The Warsaw Pact was an agreement formed shortly after West Germany joined NATO and was aimed for mutual defense against outside threats and established a unified military command under Soviet control. While it promoted ideals of peaceful coexistence, the pact ultimately served to reinforce Soviet…

The Cuban Missile Crisis was a dangerous confrontation between the United States and the Soviet Union. This intense standoff was triggered by the discovery of Soviet nuclear missiles in Cuba. Such a direct menace to American interests propelled the Cold War adversaries to the precipice of nuclear…

This 1971 agreement between the United States and the Soviet Union established a shared understandings for nuclear weapons and missile use. The agreement was signed during the Nixon Administration's push for détente, in which they sought to reduce tensions with the Soviet Union through…

<p>During World War II, Tunner led the effort to fly supplies from India “over the Hump” of the Himalayas to supply nineteen Chinese divisions, and later commanded the Berlin Airlift operation.</p>
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<p><span class="deck"> “Almost every time a serious disarmament effort got under way, it barely managed to move forward an inch or two before a great world cataclysm intervened”</span> </p>

<p><span class="deck"> <span class="typestyle"> The U-2, Cuba, and the CIA</span> </span></p>

<p><span class="deck"> <span class="typestyle"> The American Experience With Foreign Aid</span> </span></p>

<p><span class="deck"> <span class="typestyle"> The fallout-shelter craze of 1961</span> </span></p>

<p><span class="deck"> SENT ON A HOPELESSLY VAGUE ASSIGNMENT BY WOODROW WILSON, AMERICAN SOLDIERS FOUND THEMSELVES IN THE MIDDLE OF A FEROCIOUS SQUABBLE AMONG BOLSHEVIKS, COSSACKS, CZECHS, JAPANESE, AND OTHERS</span> </p>

<p><span class="deck">In 1932, the Communist International paid to send a cast of American blacks to Moscow to make a movie about American racial injustice. The scheme backfired.</span></p>

<p><span class="deck">The Cold War was an anomaly. More often than not, the world’s two greatest states have lived together in uneasy amity. And what now?</span></p>

<p><span class="deck">The first American to leave the Earth's atmosphere recalls the momentous flight that put us on a course for the Moon.</span></p>

<p><span class="deck">Seen in its proper historical context, amid the height of the Cold War, the investigation into Kennedy’s assassination looks much more impressive and its shortcomings much more understandable.</span></p>

<p><span class="deck">In an exchange of letters, a man who had an immeasurable impact on how the great struggle of our times was waged looks back on how it began.</span></p>

<p><span class="body">American self-interest was involved, of course, but the Marshall Plan remains what some have referred to as a rare example of “power used to its best end.”</span></p>

<p><span class="deck">Sixty years ago this month, the Soviet Union orbited a “man-made moon” whose derisive chirp persuaded Americans that they’d already lost a race that had barely begun.</span></p>

<p><span class="deck">Nikita Khrushchev’s son recalls a world in which the United States was the Evil Empire, and the Soviet superpower was a carefully maintained illusion.</span></p>

<p><span class="deck"><span class="typestyle">Setting the record straight about my father.</span> </span></p>

<p><span class="deck">The Cuban Missile Crisis as seen from the Kremlin</span></p>

<p><span class="deck">To bring their nation to the leading edge of technology, Soviet leaders are turning to the United States. Their grandfathers did the same thing.</span></p>

<p>Largely unknown to his cabinet, Ronald Reagan broke with previous U.S. policy and initiated a global campaign of economic and political warfare against the Soviets.</p>

<p>Twenty-two years ago, the Soviet parliament suspended the Communist Party after the failure of a dramatic coup attempt to remove Gorbachev.</p>

<p>Much of what we know today about the leadership of the Soviet Union during the Cold War is attributable to the late son of Nikita Khrushchev.</p>

<p>Vladimir Putin and his clique ruthlessly took over Russia’s assets and used their billions to undermine Western institutions and democracies.</p>

<p>The former foreign minister of Russia provides a unique look inside his country's leadership and reflects on the prospects for democracy there.</p>

<p>The award-winning photojournalist broke gender barriers and was the first American female reporter killed in combat in Vietnam.</p>