Cold War

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Pod Tim Phillips WL

A journey along the Iron Curtain . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Santa_Surveillance_s Glen McBeth

Q&A Why did NORAD begin tracking Santa Claus in the Cold War?

Mikhail Gorbachev as seen in a 1995 portrait. His leadership saw the Soviet Union undergo dramatic reform, leading to its dissolution in 1991 (Photo by Dana Gluckstein / mptvimages / eyevine)

Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev as a Cold War hero or a failed idealist: the historians’ verdict

East German leader Willi Stoph greets West German chancellor Willy Brandt at Erfurt. (Getty images)

Cold War summits: how USA & USSR leaders worked to end the conflict

President Reagan and General Secretary Gorbachev together

What brought a thaw in the Cold War?

Second World War allies Churchill, Roosevelt and Stalin (left to right) at the Yalta Conference in February 1945. East and west would soon become bitter rivals, however

The Cold War: 9 key questions

George C Marshall, architect of the Marshall Plan, which pledged billions of dollars to help rebuild war-torn Europe

What was the Marshall Plan?

President Truman, seen here in 1948

What was the Truman Doctrine?

Pod Philip Oltermann WL

Stasi poets: creative writing & the Cold War

American citizens Ethel and Julius Rosenberg, following their arrest by the FBI 1950. They were convicted of passing infomation to the Soviets and executed in 1953

The secrets and lies of Cold War spies

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Pod Kristina Spohr WL

Why the Ukraine conflict isn’t a new Cold War . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Pod Rana Mitter WL

Nixon in China: the trip that changed the Cold War

Pod Louis Menand WL

America’s Cold War culture boom

Pod Martin Sixsmith WL

Cold war mind games

Nikita Khrushchev visits President of Egypt Gamal Abdel Nasser in 1964

Snuffed out democracies and poisoned toothpaste: how the Cold War wreaked havoc in post-colonial Africa