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 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 ...

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.

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Reasons for the Cold War Soviet policy in Eastern Europe The Cuban Crisis Why the USA lost the war in Vietnam Managing the Cold War 1962-85 ...

When we think about the Cold War, we often think about the ... various geopolitical conflicts between 1945 and the 1980s. Although the "war" between the USA and USSR never got directly "hot ...

As the Cold War settled into détente in the early 1970s ... Then, on New Year's Day 1980, the Soviet Union invaded Afghanistan, a non-aligned nation. Castro's foreign policy received a crushing ...