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.

It committed the U.S. to contain Soviet geopolitical expansion during the Cold War, providing economic and military aid to countries resisting communism, which significantly influenced global ...

The Cold War began in Europe, but it soon spread to Africa, Asia and Latin America. Each superpower feared that a setback in a developing country could give the other the advantage in the Cold War.

Kunakhovich presents a richly detailed chronicle of the relations between political and cultural actors in the East German city of Leipzig and the Polish city of Krakow during the Cold War. He shows ...

In 1953, while Nash was at M.I.T., FBI agents went after three members of the university's math department who previously had been members of the Communist Party.