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Cold War
- Cold WarOn the 16th of April 1947, an influential advisor to Democratic presidents named Bernard Baruch stood before an audience and declared, "we are today in the…
- 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 was a contest between two superpowers that began not in the stars but deep underground, in the firing pits of missile test ranges.
- Morgenthau PlanThe Morgenthau Plan began as a handwritten memorandum in 1944 and very nearly erased one of the world's great industrial nations from the map.
- Greek Civil WarThe Greek Civil War began not with a declaration or a battle line, but with a demonstration. On the 3rd of December 1944, at least 200,000 people marched…
- 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.
- PermestaPermesta was a rebel movement in Indonesia that began before dawn on the 2nd of March 1957, when Lt. Col. Ventje Sumual stood in the governor's residence in…
- Soviet empireThe Soviet empire was never called an empire by the people who ran it. Soviet leaders declared their system anti-imperialist, a people's democracy, a beacon…
- Sputnik crisisThe Sputnik crisis began on the 4th of October, 1957, when a Soviet satellite the size of a beach ball began beeping its way around Earth.
- 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.