Living with the constant fear that nuclear war could break out at any second was just a fact of life that everyone had to ...

Spanning from the late 1940s to the early 1990s, the Cold War wasn’t a traditional war that was fought on battlefields. As a high-stakes race between the U.S., the Soviet Union, and their allies, the ...

The Cold War is widely considered to have ended in 1991 with the collapse of the Soviet Union. It appeared to mark the end of an era with the fall of the Iron Curtain, the dissolution of the USSR, and ...

Activists at the National Network on Cuba (NNOC) also helped plan the convoy. The NNOC is a coalition of member organizations that include the Soviet-sympathetic Communist Party USA (CPUSA), ...

For decades, the United States and the Soviet Union fought for global dominance without ever facing each other in full-scale ...

THE UK is reviving a Cold War-era plan to prepare the country and civilians as the threat of war escalates. The head of the ...

Frontmatter -- Preface -- Contents -- Abbreviations -- Introduction: Art Canons and the Cold War -- Part One: Painting by Marxism: American Art in Soviet Reflection -- Chapter 1 The Ugly Shapes of ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. GettyImages 109890493 William McElligott Getty Images 2 Pumping out warplanes by the tens of thousands, the USSR manufactured and ...

Ti Top Island in Ha Long Bay is named after Soviet cosmonaut Gherman Titov, linking early spaceflight, military aviation, and ...

MOSCOW (AP) — Boris Spassky, a Soviet-era world chess champion who lost his title to American Bobby Fischer in a legendary 1972 match that became a proxy for Cold War rivalries, died Thursday in ...

In 1965, a group of Israeli amateurs shocked the Soviet chess elite, securing a moral victory in the Cold War arena. The ...