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Cold War
- Cold WarFifty years, no direct shot, and one misread signal from the end. Listen to the war of spies, walls, and the men who chose not to fire.
- Governors Island SummitThe Governors Island Summit met on the 7th of December, 1988, and it would not go the full distance. Ronald Reagan and Mikhail Gorbachev were at its center.
- Slavic-Eurasian Research CenterThe Slavic-Eurasian Research Center at Hokkaido University sits on Japan's northernmost island, in the city of Sapporo. On the 28th of April 1952, the United…
- Rapacki PlanThe Rapacki Plan arrived at the United Nations General Assembly on the 2nd of October 1957, carried by a Polish foreign minister whose name alone posed a…
- 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 EuropeOn the 1st of August 1975, thirty-five heads of state gathered at Finlandia Hall in Helsinki to sign a document that carried no legal force of a treaty, yet…
- 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.
- EurocommunismEurocommunism was a political current that fractured the communist world from within. In the 1970s and 1980s, Western European communist parties began…
- Moscow Summit (1988)The Moscow Summit brought Ronald Reagan and Mikhail Gorbachev together in the Soviet capital from the 29th of May to the 2nd of June, 1988.