Curated playlist
Cold War
- Cold WarWhy was the Cold War called a war when the two superpowers never fought each other directly?
- Governors Island SummitThe Governors Island Summit ended early because of an earthquake far away.
- Slavic-Eurasian Research CenterA Japanese research center renamed itself in 2014 because its subject had vanished.
- Rapacki PlanPoland's Rapacki Plan asked the UN in 1957 to keep nuclear weapons out of Central Europe.
- Malta SummitThe Malta Summit brought United States President George H. W. Bush and Soviet General Secretary Mikhail Gorbachev together on the 2nd and the 3rd of December 1989. It happened just a few weeks after the fall of the Berlin Wall. The two men…
- Space RaceThe Space Race began underground, in the firing pits of missile test ranges.
- Morgenthau PlanRoosevelt and Churchill initialed a plan to turn Germany into farmland. Both soon distanced themselves from it.
- Greek Civil WarShots rang out at a march of at least 200,000 people in Athens in 1944. It began the Greek Civil War.
- Conference on Security and Co-operation in EuropeThe Soviet Union signed the 1975 Helsinki Accords expecting to win. The paper had no treaty force.
- PermestaA CIA pilot bombing for Permesta rebels was shot down over Ambon, Indonesia, in May 1958.
- Soviet empireThe Soviet empire was never called an empire by the people who ran it. Its leaders called the system anti-imperialist.
- Sputnik crisisThe rocket that launched Sputnik 1 produced almost 1,000,000 pounds of thrust. U.S. officials guessed about 200,000.
- EurocommunismGorbachev's memoirs cite Eurocommunism as a key influence on glasnost and perestroika.
- Moscow Summit (1988)After the 1988 Moscow Summit, some Soviet history classes were cancelled.