As one of the most challenging periods in world history, the Cold War was politically and diplomatically tense. While other ...

As such, the expansion of NATO has been blamed for increased militarization in Europe and has led to a new conflict similar to the Cold War. The Warsaw Pact’s alliance of countries extended the ...

The soldiers were part of a 250,000-strong invasion force from five Warsaw Pact countries which invaded ... prevented the outbreak of the Third World War." "This is the perspective of generals ...

Putin was a Russian KGB agent during the Cold War. Now every member state of the former Warsaw Pact and three constituent republics of the USSR of that era are NATO allies of the United States.

The USA and the Soviet Union’s opposing political and economic beliefs caused the Cold War. NATO and the Warsaw Pact were established. Both competed in an arms race. Flashpoints – Hungary ...

It was the biggest such expulsion since the height of the Cold War era and the hostilities ... and the Soviet Union formed the Warsaw Pact with eastern European countries such as Poland and ...

A military pact between the countries of the former Soviet Bloc (USSR ... NATO was founded in 1949 in Washington, but became less prominent after the end of the Cold War. In 2002, it had 19 members: ...