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

As the Cold War intensified at the end of the 1950s, the U.S. Army devised a plan to build a sprawling launch site for ...

Save guides, add subjects and pick up where you left off with your BBC account. Narrator: After World War Two, a 45-year struggle for global supremacy emerged: the Cold War. One side was led by ...

In an account that reads more like a spy thriller than a political history, British author Charlie English recounts the story of how the CIA smuggled books behind the Iron Curtain ...

A s the world holds its breath over the Russian invasion of Ukraine and other current affairs, comparisons are inevitably ...

Visit the TV show page for '1945-1953: From World War to Cold War' on Moviefone. Discover the show's synopsis, cast details, and season information. Watch trailers, exclusive interviews, and ...

The Cold War relationship between the two rival nations was often ... American and Soviet leaders managed to avoid direct combat with each other from 1945 to 1989, the basic period of the Cold War.

This “sweeping, original” history of the Cold War traces its origins in post-war Europe, through tumultuous decades of confrontation, to the fall of the Berlin Wall and beyond. Pelican , £25. ...

Director Brian Knappenberger argues that the Cold War continues, ... and deploy it in Hiroshima and Nagasaki in August of 1945, killing over 200,000 mostly civilian residents.