The Iron Curtain was the political, military, and ideological barrier that divided Soviet-controlled Eastern Europe from the democratic nations of Western Europe during the Cold...
For thirteen days in October 1962, the United States and the Soviet Union confronted each other over nuclear missiles in Cuba. President John F. Kennedy and Soviet leader Nikita...
The Cold War Was Fought in Stadiums, Arenas, and Olympic Villages Too.
For decades, the United States and the Soviet bloc battled for influence around the world. They competed in military power, technology, space exploration, propaganda—and sports.
To communist governments, an Olympic medal represented far more than athletic achievement. Victory...
Needing to stop the flood of humanity fleeing communist oppression by making it to the divided city of Berlin, the communist government of East Germany took drastic measures. In August of 1961, construction of the Berlin Wall began.
Two young lovers, an American refugee worker, and an East German seminary student, find themselves separated by the...
