Hal Brands and Gareth Porter debate the resolution, "The Cold War was a necessary response by the United States to a Soviet and Chinese threat to the global balance of power." Hal Brands, senior ...

During World War 2, Chrysler built tanks, planes, and other military vehicles. The manufacturer's engineers went on to create turbine engine-powered cars using what they learned from these ...

Germany, long a synonym for economic brawn and muscle, is beginning to recall words like lumbago or sciatica instead. Though still leading in Europe, and ...

During the final days of the Cold War, the Soviet Union developed what seemed like pure science fiction: mobile laser tanks capable of disabling missiles, blinding pilots, and destroying optical ...

Jonathan Dimbleby is the author of Barbarossa: How Hitler Lost The War; and Endgame 1944: How Stalin Won The War, both published in paperback by Penguin, priced £12.99 and £10.99 respectively ...

By 27 April the suburb of Spandau were taken and the Brandenburg Gate stood in the distance. By then Hitler married Eva Braun whilst maddeningly scolding at his ‘treacherous’ general staff.

President Ronald Reagan issued his challenge — “Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall!” — at the Brandenburg Gate in 1987. European history has also been America’s history as a European power.

L-R: Budapest's Chain Bridge; Berlin's Brandenburg Gate; and New York City's Empire State Building are illuminated in orange to honor the slain Bibas family, Feb. 26, 2025.

The Brandenburg Gate is one of the most recognized monuments in Germany, and, indeed, Europe. Located in Berlin, the triumphal arch has a tumultuous history. Completed in 1791, this neoclassical ...

‘Once the wall was down, unification became possible and imaginable. ‘Since 1945, the divided city of Berlin had been a symbol of the Cold War, a symbol cast in concrete by the Wall built in 1961.