The Battle of Cold Harbor was the Confederacy’s last major Civil War victory. Does it offer any insight into the mysterious ...

When we think about the Cold War, we often think about the nuclear arms race and stalemate, anti-communist/anti-capitalist rhetoric and propaganda, and economic conflict. Even Encyclopedia Britannica ...

Was there a ‘New Cold War’ in the early 1980s? Was there a ‘New Cold War’ in the early 1980s? This online resource is a collaboration between LSE IDEAS and The Open University. It has received ...

If you grew up anytime from the 1950s to the 1980s, The Cold War was omnipresent. Bomb drills, proxy wars, and fear of a nuclear apocalypse were on everyone's minds, pretty much all the time.

While such similarities are striking, it is also important to remember the significant differences between the early 1980s and the international situation today. The Cold War was in part an ...

If American defense spending had bankrupted the Soviet economy, forcing an end to the Cold War, Soviet defense spending ... gross national product during the 1980s, including Gorbachev's first ...

During the Cold War, the threat of nuclear Armageddon was an everyday fear. By the 1980s, Mikhail Gorbachev was reforming the Soviet Union as they faced economic problems and individual countries ...