After Stalin’s death in 1953, it looked as though the Cold War might thaw a little. The new leader Nikita Khrushchev looked for a peaceful coexistence. In 1959 he said, There are two ways ...
Millions of Russians- many of them Stalin's one-time friends- went to ... as they demanded "an end to the war" and the release of Israeli hostages. A developing storm over north-central Mexico ...
Premier Josef Stalin, who ruled Russia since 1924, saw the Soviet empire spread eastward through China and westward through half of Europe. Cold war on Reds launched by U.S. to capitalize on ...
According to Kennan, Stalin needed to believe in the triumph ... Soviet Communism soon dominated Eastern Europe. The Cold War had begun.
That was the holy grail of Soviet leaders, from Joseph Stalin to Leonid Brezhnev, during the Cold War. But the multi-generational, bipartisan leadership of American presidents from Harry Truman to ...
In an echo of the Yalta Conference in 1945, the American and Russian leaders will talk on Tuesday about who gets what in the ...
Roosevelt and Churchill agree to allow Stalin to control the governments of Eastern Europe at war's end, thereby setting the stage for the future Cold War. As Soviet forces push into Berlin ...
There is no third way. There were problems in Eastern Europe throughout the 1950s and early 1960s. The Cold War even spread to the Caribbean.