Tag: coldwar

The Wall Comes Down  The dominoes fall: incredibly quickly, the Soviet bloc is breaking up, virtually without bloodshed.

Star Wars Ronald Reagan pledges to defeat the “evil empire,” but abhors the idea of nuclear war. He is prepared[…]

Spies  Even before the end of World War II, spies prepare for post-war world order. Beginning in 1944, KGB spies[…]

Soldiers of God Afghanistan is a brutal war that costs the lives of almost 15,000 Soviet conscripts and an estimated[…]

Freeze As the United States absorbs the hike in OPEC oil prices and concerns for human rights in the East[…]

Backyard The United States has always regarded Latin America as its own back yard. In 1954, Guatemalan President Jacobo Arbenz[…]

Good Guys, Bad Guys Across the world, the two superpowers back surrogates engaging in ideological and, sometimes, physical conflict. In[…]

Detente The North Vietnamese overwhelm U.S.-backed forces in the South and the United States steps up its bombing campaign. Nixon[…]

China Chinese Communists are victorious in the longest civil war in 20th century history. Mao Zedong’s reforms are popular, but[…]

Red Spring In the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe, denial of freedom and incentive stifles ambition and achievement. The young[…]