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What Happened in Africa During the Cold War?

Africa became a major arena of Cold War rivalry as newly independent nations navigated pressure from both the United States ...
For the United States to compete with China and Russia on nuclear energy, it must work with allies to accelerate nuclear expansion at home, in Eastern Europe, and in emerging markets.
The congressional anti-communist hearings of the 1940s are a reminder that freedom of speech today is even more fragile than ...
For nearly fifty years, the United States and the Soviet Union competed for global influence without ever fighting directly. This video traces the key moments of the Cold War — from the Berlin Airlift ...
Thirty years have passed since U.S.-led diplomacy brought together the warring parties in Bosnia to end what then was ...
The flood of angry —and justified— reactions to this year’s Nobel Peace Prize laureate, María Corina Machado, reveals less about the committee’s decision than about the public’s sense of shock. How ...
MOSCOW, Oct 2 (Reuters) - Russia on Thursday said that there was no Cold War with the West because it was now a "fiery" conflict, and that the European Union and the NATO military alliance were lying ...
FILE - Jane Fonda appears at the 31st annual Screen Actors Guild Awards in Los Angeles on Feb. 23, 2025. (Photo by Jordan Strauss/Invision/AP, File) (Jordan Strauss) NEW YORK – Drawing upon her ...
Petroleum and mysterious sections of a 1950s Cold War U.S. Navy base have emerged from the beach near Buxton, NC, on the Outer Banks. National Park Service photo The site of a Cold War era navy base ...
India’s access to cheap Russian gas gives it little fear of the Trump administration’s sanctions. If Trump could restore Russian gas to international markets, this arrangement would collapse.
China has invaded every aspect of American life, and few seem to care. Kudos to Rahm Emanuel for sounding the alarm (“We Have Met the Enemy and He Isn’t Us,” op-ed Sept. 2). We know how high-tech ...