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Cold War
- Cold WarOn the 5th of March 1946, former British prime minister Winston Churchill delivered a speech in Fulton, Missouri, that would define the opening chapter of…
- Governors Island SummitRonald Reagan met Mikhail Gorbachev on Governors Island during the final days of 1988. The date marked December 7, a time when Cold War tensions still hung…
- Slavic-Eurasian Research CenterOn the 24th of June 1953, Hokkaido University made a decision to coordinate research activities. This moment occurred just one year after the end of the US…
- Rapacki PlanThe Geneva Summit convened on the 18th of July 1955 to discuss global security and disarmament. Two Eden Plans emerged from the conference but failed to gain…
- Malta SummitBrent Scowcroft and other members of the US administration were initially concerned that the proposed Malta Summit would be premature.
- Space RaceThe Space Race began as a direct extension of the Cold War's nuclear arms race. Following World War II, both the United States and the Soviet Union acquired…
- Morgenthau PlanIn early 1944, Henry Morgenthau Jr. held a meeting with Secretary of State Cordell Hull to discuss the future of Germany after World War II.
- Greek Civil WarIn April 1941, German forces advanced on Athens while King George II and his government fled to Egypt. They established a government-in-exile that lacked…
- Conference on Security and Co-operation in EuropeIn April 1969, the Soviet Union proposed a European Security Conference to address its political isolation following the 1968 invasion of Czechoslovakia.
- PermestaAt 3:00 am on the 2nd of March 1957, Ventje Sumual stood before fifty attendees at the governor's residence in Makassar.
- Soviet empireThe term Soviet empire emerged in academic circles during the late 1950s to describe a specific pattern of global dominance.
- Sputnik crisisIn the early 1950s, Lockheed U-2 spy plane flights over the Soviet Union provided intelligence that the US held the advantage in nuclear capability.
- Moscow Summit (1988)The summit took place from the 29th of May to the 2nd of June in 1988. Ronald Reagan and Mikhail Gorbachev met in Moscow during this period.