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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 the Cold War policy of containment 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. Shortly after Stalin’s death in March 1953, Eisenhower gave a speech notably titled “The Chance for Peace,” in…
This Korean War summary 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. Korean War summary — An offshoot of Cold War politics Toward the end of World War II, Korea, which had been forcibly annexed by…
The following article on when did China become communist 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 February 1949, Acheson and Ambassador-at-Large Philip Jessup proposed to Truman that military supplies then being loaded in ships…
The following article on what NATO does 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. What does NATO do? This is a common question for those who've heard of the military alliance hundreds of times…
The following article on the Marshall Plan 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. On April 5, 1947, Walter Lippmann, the most influential columnist of the day, wrote that “the danger of a European economic…
The following article on the Truman 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. The combination of one of the worst winters in history and the economic consequences of World War II reduced Great Britain…
The following article is an excerpt from Warren Kozak's Curtis LeMay: Strategist and Tactician. It is available for order now from Amazon and Barnes & Noble. Curtis LeMay, the Air Force General and father of the modern Strategic Air Command—who turned it into an effective instrument of nuclear war—was thought by many to have a…
The following article on the Bay of Pigs Invasion is an excerpt from Warren Kozak's Curtis LeMay: Strategist and Tactician. It is available for order now from Amazon and Barnes & Noble. In March, just two months into the Kennedy administration, Air Force Chief Curtis LeMay was called into a meeting at the Pentagon with…
The following article on the result of the Cuban Missile Crisis is an excerpt from Warren Kozak's Curtis LeMay: Strategist and Tactician. It is available for order now from Amazon and Barnes & Noble. In the summer of 1962, negotiations on a treaty to ban above ground nuclear testing dominated the political world. The…
What caused the Cold War? A number of geopolitical factors that emerged in the wake of the Second World War, pitting Russia against the U.S. World War II ended with the Soviet Union and United States as allies that triumphed over Nazi Germany. But how did two countries that used…
