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Cold War

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

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

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

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

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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
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The Cold War: 9 key questions

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What was the Marshall Plan?

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What was the Truman Doctrine?

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Stasi poets: creative writing & the Cold War

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The secrets and lies of Cold War spies

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

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Nixon in China: the trip that changed the Cold War

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America’s Cold War culture boom

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Cold war mind games

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

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