Nuclear armament of the U.S. and the USSR in the 1940s; establishment of NATO and the Warsaw Pact; the Space Race; the Cuban Missile Crisis; glasnost and perestroika in the USSR; the fall of the ...

Tempelhof Airport stands as a symbol of resilience in Berlin's tumultuous history. During the Berlin Airlift, this site ...

The Berlin Wall remained a symbol of Cold War tension until it was torn down in November 1989. The speech President Kennedy gave in Berlin is often called the ‘Ich bin ein Berliner’ speech.

Russian President Vladimir Putin has demanded that Ukraine cede its occupied territories—Donetsk, Luhansk, Zaporizhzhia and ...

Novelist Namwali Serpell, writing in The New Yorker recently, coined a phrase that’s lingered in my mind every day since.

The East Side Gallery refers to the longest intact section of the Berlin Wall ... world's joyous and optimistic reactions to the end of the Cold War era. What exists today forms the world's ...

Early in 1990, about three months after the Berlin Wall fell and Eastern Europe’s communist regimes imploded, I had the ...

(Bloomberg) -- German bonds suffered their worst day since the months following the fall of the Berlin Wall on an historic ... were about to reunify as the Cold War drew to a close.

In Bucharest, one family showed me the hidden shelf in a closet where they kept the short-wave radio on which each evening ...