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Soviet leader Nikita Khruschev and U.S. Pres. John F. Kennedy are forever linked by the Cuban Missile Crisis, Mao Zedong and Chiang Kai-shek by the Chinese Civil War, and U.S. Pres. Ronald Reagan and Mikhail Gorbachev by the roles they played in bringing the Cold War to an end.
From Stalin's reign of terror to Gorbachev and glasnost, meet the eight leaders who presided over the USSR. Updated: August 7, 2024 | Original: March 10, 2022. The Soviet Union had eight...
The Cold War was a period of geopolitical tension between the United States and the Soviet Union and their respective allies, the Western Bloc and the Eastern Bloc, that started in 1947, two years after the end of World War II, and lasted until the fall of the Soviet Union in 1991.
The Cold War was an ongoing political rivalry between the United States and the Soviet Union and their respective allies that developed after World War II. This hostility between the two superpowers was first given its name by George Orwell in an article published in 1945.
The U-2 incident and 1962 Cuban missile crisis, however, ended what little amity existed between the two nations and repolarized the Cold War. Party leaders, upset with Khrushchev for having backed down from the Cuban missile crisis, removed him from power in 1964. Douglas MacArthur
What was the Cold War? How did the Cold War end? Why was the Cuban missile crisis such an important event in the Cold War? What was Harry S. Truman's reaction to communist North Korea's attempt to seize noncommunist South Korea in 1950? Should the United States maintain the embargo enforced by John F. Kennedy against Cuba?
The Cold War was a period of geopolitical tension marked by competition and confrontation between communist nations led by the Soviet Union and Western democracies including the United States.
Summaries on the Different Leaders of the Cold War and their impact. Click here to listen to an audio recording of this reading. From 1948, communists dominated the governments of what became known as Eastern bloc states.
The Cold War was an ideological conflict between the capitalist United States and the communist Soviet Union, and their respective allies. Despite being called a war, it was not a direct...
As World War II dragged to an end in 1945, the leaders of the “Big Three” allied powers—the United States, Soviet Union, and Great Britain—met in Potsdam, Germany, to hash out...