This project explores how the ideas of Hans Morgenthau, who introduced realism to Americans at the dawn of the Cold War, can help guide the United ... The Realist: The Life and Ideas of Hans ...

The global superpower stand-off that brought the world to the brink of destruction. BBC Two's new Cold War Season explores the cultural and political impact of a conflict that divided the world.

Post-WWII, tension between the USA and the Soviet Union led to a worldwide Cold War. Reasons for this included: ideological differences, problems in Germany, the arms race and the Korean War.

The hijacking crisis of September 1970 occurred against the backdrop of a decades-long Cold War between the planet's two strongest nations. Although the United States and Soviet Union had begun ...

Fidel Castro's life story is not the story of the leader ... By deftly manipulating the opportunities afforded Cuba by the Cold War, he managed to turn his island into a launching pad for the ...

But Hitler's Nazi menace would soon be replaced by a new threat to world peace as the Soviet Union and the United States faced off in the Cold War. Canada was thrust into the Cold War world ...

I offered a course on the Cold War and American pop culture, to try to help younger students understand the fears that dominated so much of American life in the 20th century. When my students saw ...