Cold War
Articles on the origins of the Cold War and its most important moments. Features timelines and information sheets.
Articles on the origins of the Cold War and its most important moments. Features timelines and information sheets.
The following article on NSC-68 is an excerpt from Lee Edwards and Elizabeth Edwards Spalding's book A Brief History of the Cold War It is available to order now at Amazon and Barnes & Noble. The prospect in 1950 of a united and expansionist communism, led by the Soviet Union and Communist China, led the Truman administration…
The following article on the Nixon Doctrine is an excerpt from Lee Edwards and Elizabeth Edwards Spalding's book A Brief History of the Cold War It is available to order now at Amazon and Barnes & Noble. Despite his Quaker roots, Nixon had a reputation as a staunch anticommunist. Campaigning for the presidency in the fall of 1968,…
The following article on the Cold War Detente is an excerpt from Lee Edwards and Elizabeth Edwards Spalding's book A Brief History of the Cold War It is available to order now at Amazon and Barnes & Noble. By the time of the Nixon presidency, the nature of the Cold War had changed. Applying its interpretation of peaceful…
The following article on the Salt 2 Treaty is an excerpt from Lee Edwards and Elizabeth Edwards Spalding's book A Brief History of the Cold War It is available to order now at Amazon and Barnes & Noble. The Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty (SALT) were two rounds of bilateral conferences and corresponding international treaties between the United States…
The following article on the Jimmy Carter foreign policy is an excerpt from Lee Edwards and Elizabeth Edwards Spalding's book A Brief History of the Cold War It is available to order now at Amazon and Barnes & Noble. The Carter Foreign Policy has been summarized by some analysts as good intentions gone wrong. Carter thought that…
The following article on Leonid Brezhnev is an excerpt from Lee Edwards and Elizabeth Edwards Spalding's book A Brief History of the Cold War It is available to order now at Amazon and Barnes & Noble. In October 1964, Leonid Brezhnev, the ultimate apparatchik, replaced the unpredictable Nikita Khrushchev as the general secretary of the Communist Party…
The following article on Kennedy and Khruschev is an excerpt from Lee Edwards and Elizabeth Edwards Spalding's book A Brief History of the Cold War It is available to order now at Amazon and Barnes & Noble. The most contentious moments of the Cold War—the Bay of Pigs Invasion, the Cuban Missile Crisis, the building of the Berlin…
The following article on de-Stalinization is an excerpt from Lee Edwards and Elizabeth Edwards Spalding's book A Brief History of the Cold War It is available to order now at Amazon and Barnes & Noble. Nikita Khrushchev’s dramatic “de-Stalinization” speech in February 1956 was a watershed moment in the Cold War. After a succession crisis following Stalin’s…
The following article on the Hungarian Revolution is an excerpt from Lee Edwards and Elizabeth Edwards Spalding's book A Brief History of the Cold War It is available to order now at Amazon and Barnes & Noble. Eisenhower was president at a time, said Congressman Walter Judd, when the world was “filled with confusion,” when a third of…
The following article on the Red Scare is an excerpt from Lee Edwards and Elizabeth Edwards Spalding's book A Brief History of the Cold War It is available to order now at Amazon and Barnes & Noble. In general terms, a "Red Scare" is the promotion of fear of a potential rise of communism. It was pronounced in…