During the Cold War, NATO searched for effective methods to prevent a potential Soviet invasion. One of the most ...

As part of a special series of reports on how Russia views 1989, BBC Moscow correspondent Steve Rosenberg has travelled to former East Germany. He took a look inside Wünsdorf, a complex near ...

The blockade of Berlin was the first serious crisis of the Cold War ... genuine fears of war in the West. And instead of preventing the establishment of an independent West Germany, it accelerated ...

The meeting underlined the differences between the Allied powers, and set the stage for a post-war "cold" war ... in Germany became de facto country boundaries, creating West and East Germany ...

West Germany, meanwhile, appreciated the power of having an American überpartner during the Cold War, especially since West Germany flourished economically during most of the conflict.

A symbolic Iron Curtain cut through the middle of Europe: East vs West ... for the Cold War. The Yalta Conference took place during World War Two. By the Potsdam Conference, Nazi Germany had ...

The iron curtain was a boundary that divided Europe from the end of the second world war in 1945 to the late 1980s/early 1990s, during the Cold War ... from there to West Germany.