In The World of the Cold War: 1945-1991 Vladislav Zubok argues that circumstance rather than ideology shaped the clash ...

Created by the Allies 10 years after World War II to help defend Western Europe, the German army was designed to fight as ...

The first three countries merged their areas in 1949 to create West Germany (a.k.a. the German Federal Republic ... an especially tense period of the Cold War. Three weeks after the crash ...

For one, Cold War history makes conflict appear to resemble an on-off switch. Stories of the United States containing the Evil Empire and leading the Free ... Or policymakers could consider the ...

Russia is no longer interested in engaging with the West if that engagement requires them to abandon their dreams of an expansionist empire ... style than the Cold War-era Soviet Union, but ...

Ukraine has a new weapon in its fight against Russia — Cold War-era German battle tanks. The New York Times reported that Germany sent 10 of the obsolete Leopard 1A5 tanks to Ukraine last month.

It is a great autobiography by one of the most intriguing Cold Warriors ... was impossible to know with certainty for which side a German was working.” Born in Germany in 1923, Wolf was taken ...