Cold War

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A photograph from the tumultuous German-Czech border in 1938 during World War II. The Sudetenland had long been a hotspot of contact between the two groups.
The Space In Between
A memorial to Holocaust victims in front of a Jewish cemetery.
A Postcard from Berlin: Confronting a Troubled Past
A scene from the 1956 Hungarian Revolution
Remembering '56: The Hungarian Revolution
Mata Hari (1876-1917).
Top Ten Origins: Spies, Lies, and Moles: Oh My!
Joseph Stalin
Dismantling a Legacy: The Last Days of Stalin
NATO and Russia in close proximity again. A U.S. F-22A Raptor accompanies a Russian Tu-95 near the Alaskan NORAD Region airspace, 2007.
NATO's New Order: The Alliance After the Cold War
ELAS Guerrillas, 1943
The Greek Civil War, 1946–1949
The logo of Solidarność painted on an overturned Soviet era T-55 in Prague in 1990
Poland Takes Charge of Its Own Revolution
Marker: "90 Miles to Cuba. Southernmost Point, Continental USA. Key West, FL"
Rethinking Cuba Libre
Cover of The Collapse: The Accidental Opening of the Berlin Wall by Mary Elise Sarotte.
…And the Walls Came Tumbling Down: A History of Contingency and Happenstance
Monument with figures dressed as pop culture figures like Superman, Santa, and Ronald McDonald
1989: The Year That Changed It All
Reinforcing Omaha Beach with men and equipment
Remembering D-Day: 10 Important Facts to Know
Cover of The Last Empire: The Final Days of the Soviet Union by Serhii Plokhy
"The Greatest Geopolitical Catastrophe of the Century"
Team photo of a soccer team
The Politics of International Sport
Photo of a deer
4/24/14: Memories of the Iron Curtain
a man standing on a large bomb
Fifty Years Later, We Still Need to Learn to Love the Bomb
The futuristic National Security Operations Center occupies a floor of the National Security Agency's headquarters in Fort Meade, Maryland.
America's "Big Brother": A Century of U.S. Domestic Surveillance
State of War: The Political Economy of American Warfare, 1945-2011, by Paul A. C. Koistinen Book Cover.
The Anatomy of the Military-Industrial Complex
The sickle and hammer on a Soviet Union flag from the 1930s.
A Failed Empire: The Soviet Union in the Cold War from Stalin to Gorbachev (The New Cold War History)
Blind Oracles: Intellectuals and War from Kennan to Kissinger, by Bruce Kuklick book cover.
Blind Oracles: Intellectuals and War from Kennan to Kissinger
Review of Ho Chi Minh: A Biography, by Pierre Brocheux (translation by Claire Duiker) Book Cover
Ho Chi Minh: A Biography
The Sino-Soviet Split: Cold War in the Communist World, by Lorenz M Luthi Book Cover
Clashing Shades of Red
President Ronald Reagan Says Goodbye to Soviet General Secretary Mikhail Gorbachev After The Last Meeting at Hofdi House Reykjavik Iceland, 10/12/1986
The Presidential Candidates Should Vow to Complete the Nuclear Arms Reduction Efforts Begun by President Reagan in Reykjavik
Sputnik
Soviets Launch Sputnik, 1957