Explore the Cold War period, one of the most significant and tense times in modern history. Unlike traditional wars fought ...

The Cold War between the U.S. and the USSR in the Middle East resembled a chess match: each party sought to neutralize the strategic advantage of the other in the vital, but highly explosive region.

Russian officials are telegraphing a slowdown of the country’s war economy -- the first major slump since the launch of the ...

9 Reasons to Thank the USSR: How We Got the Cold War Wrong. THINK AGAIN. Much of what many of us learned in school about the struggle between the U.S. and USSR was very, very wrong.

The allies. Before the Cold War divided the world in half, the U.S. and the USSR were allies who fought the Nazis hand in hand. Although, by the end of the war in 1945, politicians on both sides ...

Republican nominee Donald Trump drew an analogy Monday between dangers once posed by the Soviet Union and the more recent peril of Islamic terrorism. “In winning the Cold War, President Ronald ...

Russia is on a fast track back to the Cold War Soviet Union, or indeed – woe is us – is already there. The claim comes with various adornments: today’s Russia is a totalitarian dictatorship ...

Historians pinpoint the Cold War as starting with the Truman Doctrine in 1947 and ending with the fall of the Soviet Union in 1991. It's likely the U.S. is going to be entering a prolonged ...

This week Russian President Vladimir Putin revived the Cold War tradition of taking geopolitics onto the ice, suggesting in a call to President Donald Trump that American and Russian skaters play ...

The Cold War is suddenly back as a hot topic in American politics. A quarter-century after the fall of the Soviet Union handed the United States victory in a titanic ideological duel, the era’s ...