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Hace 1 día · As the world grapples with signs of increasing geopolitical fragmentation, it is important to reflect on the lessons of the past. This column studies the economic impact of the Cold War, focusing on how the severity of trade barriers varied over time. While the Iron Curtain represented a tariff equivalent of 48% at its height in 1951, trade between East and West gradually became easier until ...
Hace 11 horas · Historians disagree on the exact moment when the Cold War ended. The main diplomatic events that marked the years 1989, 1990 and 1991 were: The Malta Summit between US President George Bush and Soviet leader Gorbachev, which for many historians marked the end of the Cold War. The two leaders met on the ship Maxim Gorky anchored off the coast of ...
Hace 3 días · United States - Red Scare, McCarthyism, Cold War: Truman’s last years in office were marred by charges that his administration was lax about, or even condoned, subversion and disloyalty and that communists, called “reds,” had infiltrated the government.
Hace 3 días · This three-year bloody and brutal struggle left millions of North and South Koreans dead, and over 100,000 casualties for the United Nations forces involved. Despite this, the conflict is a forgotten war today, but its legacy still has a huge global impact. Read this story.
Hace 1 día · The North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) is a military alliance originally established in 1949 to create a counterweight to Soviet armies stationed in central and eastern Europe after World War II. When the Cold War ended, NATO was reconceived as a “cooperative-security” organization.
Hace 5 días · For a while it seemed that the US still had the upper hand in the Third World, with the mid-1960s seeing the downfall of Sukarno, the consolidation of power in the Congo (Zaire) of General Mobutu and the death in Bolivia of one of the greatest of the new breed of revolutionaries, Che Guevara.
Hace 2 días · 3) Operation Danube Chronicles. Operation Danube documents the Warsaw Pact invasion of Czechoslovakia in 1968. This military intervention crushed the Prague Spring and halted liberalization reforms in the country. The operation, involving the Soviet Union, Poland, Bulgaria, and Hungary, was a significant event in Cold War history.
