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

Professor David Dalton talked about the origins of the Cold War following the end of World War II. This was from an American history survey course that covers colonization to the present.

The Cold War was a decades-long diplomatic and military standoff between the Soviet Union and the United States. Skip to main content. ... Cold War: Origins, combatants and leaders .

After the US and Soviet Union became capable of Mutually Assured Destruction, safeguards were put in place to prevent World ...

Stalin’s War: A New History of World War II, by Sean McMeekin, (Basic Books: April 2021), 864 pages. When the Russian government recently terminated a nearly quarter-century relationship between ...

We Now Know: Rethinking Cold War History by John Lewis Gaddis (Oxford University Press, 1998) Man of the People: A Life of Harry S Truman by Alonzo L Hamby (Oxford University Press, USA, 1998) ...

The history of American defense policy during the Cold War is often told by chronologically outlining the waxing and waning of defining ideas or concepts: containment, atoms for peace, open skies, ...

The Intermediate-range Nuclear Forces Treaty, one of the linchpins in the arms-control framework that helped seal the end of the Cold War, is at risk of collapsing and fueling a new arms race.

This was part of the multi-day 2016 International Conference on World War II, titled "1946: Year Zero-Triumph and Tragedy." Alexandra Richie and Conrad Crane talked about the origins of the Cold War.