Nato has been begging European nations to fix choke points for its so-called "battle map" for a decade. Now EU commissioners ...

He can also discuss the history of diplomacy, the Cold War and American political history. Brian Toon, research scientist at the Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics (LASP), has spent several ...

After World War Two a Cold War developed between the capitalist Western countries and the Communist countries of the Eastern Bloc. Soviet leader Joseph Stalin wanted a buffer zone of friendly ...

The end of the Cold War The Communist government in Russia disintegrated due to economic pressures, the war in Afghanistan and revolt in Eastern Europe. Both Gorbachev and Reagan played major ...

Private archive of Jacek Chyrosz, Warsaw (Poland). Reproduced with permission In the course of the Cold War, architects, planners, and construction companies from socialist Eastern Europe collaborated ...

44 contact hours. in all. The lectures are joint with HY206, covering the following topics: US Cold War Interventions; Communism in Eastern Europe and China; Technologies, Weapons, and the Arms Race; ...

Roosevelt and Churchill agree to allow Stalin to control the governments of Eastern Europe at war's end, thereby setting the stage for the future Cold War. As Soviet forces push into Berlin ...

One by one, Communist governments loyal to Moscow seized power in Poland, Hungary, Romania, and Bulgaria. Soviet Communism soon dominated Eastern Europe. The Cold War had begun.