Fourteen years ago, in December 1991, Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev told his country that the cold war was over. In signing the decree that dissolved the Soviet Union and ended the East-West competition, Gorbachev also announced an end to the arms race and the "insane militarization" that...
I was elected May 7th, 2008. I am a very controversial leader, as most foreign powers consider me a puppet of Vladimir Putin. Am I a good leader? Some say yes…some say no… Dmitry Medvedev
President Gerald Ford and Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev. Credit: Gerald R. Ford Library President Gerald Ford met with Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev in the Soviet Union in November 1974 as part of an effort to normalize relations during the Cold War. After years of negotiations between Presidents...
Collective misinformation from the government to the press and public under President Lyndon Johnson during escalation of Vietnam War, 1964–1968. glasnost Policy of accommodation adopted by Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev from 1984 to 1991, signaling thawed relations between the United States and the ...
Orwell’s dire prediction began to manifest in 1945. As Europe was liberated from Nazi tyranny, it was jointly occupied by the Soviet Red Army in the east and the Americans and British in the west. At conferences to chart the future of post-war Europe,tensions emergedbetween Soviet leaderJos...
When Americans think of Eisenhower, they often note the growth of the U.S. defense industry, and tensions with the Soviet Union. Those tensions became known as the Cold War, and lasted long after Eisenhower left office. 当美国人想到艾森豪威尔时,便会想到美国国防工业的增长,以及与苏联的紧张关系...
But the Cold War began to break down in the late 1980s during the administration of Soviet leader Mikhail S. Gorbachev. He dismantled the totalitarian aspects of the Soviet system and began efforts to democratize the Soviet political system. When communist regimes in the Soviet-bloc countries of...
Cold War, the open yet restricted rivalry that developed after World War II between the United States and the Soviet Union and their respective allies. It was waged on political, economic, and propaganda fronts and had only limited recourse to weapons. T
Soviet relations were never truly friendly: Americans had long been wary of Sovietcommunismand Russian leaderJoseph Stalin’s tyrannical rule. The Soviets resented Americans’ refusal to give them a leading role in the international community, as well as America’sdelayed entryinto World War II, ...
The 45-year standoff between the West and the U.S.S.R. ended when the Soviet Union dissolved. Some say another could be starting as tensions with Russia rise.