Nuclear armament of the U.S. and the USSR in the 1940s; establishment of NATO and the Warsaw Pact; the Space Race; the Cuban Missile Crisis; glasnost and perestroika in the USSR; the fall of the ...

In 1991 the Soviet Union split up and the Cold War ended. In February 1945, the leaders of the UK, America and the Soviet Union met in Yalta in the Crimean region of the Soviet Union. After ...

The post-Cold War peace is well and truly over. This is a changed strategic environment. 'The number of conflicts higher than at any time since 1945, a spectre of famine from Gaza to Sudan and the ...

On July 25, 1945, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill ... and set the stage for a post-war "cold" war that would be waged in the coming decades between two global superpowers.

Nixon and Brezhnev, National Archives Mutually Assured Destruction The key weapon of the Cold War, the nuclear bomb ... U.S.S.R., and they spent the years after 1945 racing to develop ever ...

In September 1945, a young Russian man symbolically ushered in the Cold War when he walked into Ottawa newsroom and announced he had proof of a widespread Soviet spy ring operating in Canada.

Canada was thrust into the Cold War world quickly and unexpectedly. In September 1945, a young Russian named Igor Gouzenko walked into the newsroom of the Ottawa Citizen and announced he had proof ...