CPAC emerged during the Cold War as a rallying point for conservatives determined to resist the advance of Soviet communism.

It’s 1985, and the Cold War is still going strong when an unexpected visitor shows up at the front gates of the American embassy in Rome.

West Germany joined NATO in 1955 during the Cold War. East Germany became part of the alliance after German reunification in 1990.

This school calls for establishing guardrails, buffers, and dialogue mechanisms, some of which were resurrected from the Cold War era, particularly the détente phase of the Soviet Union.

The regime appeared to be unsettled by NATO’s growing military resolve and deepening ties with Indo-Pacific nations in recent years, with Guo accusing the alliance of having a “Cold War mentality.”

The bright and colorful works celebrate democracy, freedom, and the end of the Cold War. A highlight is a mural of a Trabant—that notoriously terrible East German automobile—“breaking” through the wall.

Russia has prided itself on its space programme since the Cold War, when Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin became the first person to travel into space in 1961.

I commend State Armor for acting with a sense of urgency to expose the CCP’s nefarious networks across our states and equip local lawmakers with the tools to fight this New Cold War.” States Can Act More Swiftly Mr.

And there are some things that we can take inspiration from in the Cold War, but we ought to remember that we didn't really do this necessarily all that well inside our own country during the Cold War, right?

The ambassador elaborated that the current competition is unlike the Cold War when the Soviet Union had a “very weak economy.”

Truman, Churchill's speech is considered a critical moment preceding the Cold War that soon unfolds.

During the Cold War, the Soviet Union framed the United States as a land of hypocrisy and decay. Today, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has refined that tactic, applying it not just to the world stage, but to the minds of Americans themselves.

‘Non-Aligned’ Former Colonies Ironically, with the coming of the Cold War, Communist influence only grew.

But that total war scenario, underway since the end of the Cold War, is now heading toward its final clash as the United States confronts the People’s Republic of China. The U.N. is nowhere to be seen.

Construction of the infamous Berlin Wall—one of the most iconic symbols of the Cold War—takes place just two months after East Germany’s communist leader Walter Ulbricht says, "No one intends to build a wall" to try to stop the exodus, totaling over 3

Even now, to read Jean-François Revel’s 1983 screed “How Democracies Perish” about the credulity and worse of Western Cold War policymakers is to tremble with rage. And let me be clear that self-criticism is one of the great strengths of the West.

Kennedy in 1961 at the height of the Cold War, as part of the Foreign Assistance Act. The legislation was meant to organise foreign aid programmes in developing countries to bolster the United States’ list of allies.

Washington initially deployed its Typhon missile system in April 2024 for drills, the first time since the Cold War that the intermediate-range, land-based launchers were hosted outside U.S. territory.

We went through the war, the postwar “liberal” order was born, and the Cold War began soon after. The rhetorical apparatus of that period that lasted 40 years was that freedom was battling tyranny.

"In the Cold War, the biggest part of the CIA was devoted to measuring the Soviet economy," he said. "We got rid of that. We've never brought it back. We need to bring it back.”

As such, the nation’s European allies have begun to express concern that the United States is backing away from its commitment to the NATO alliance as well as its historic Cold War role as a defender of Europe from Russian aggression.

However, the Chinese Embassy in Wellington did respond, condemning Patel's remarks as “groundless assertions” and evidence of “a Cold War mentality.”

In the days since the Cold War, the number of France’s tanks has dropped from 1,349 to 222 and the number of fighter aircraft from 686 to 254.

John Ikenberry’s theory: Unlike past defeated powers, Russia, in the immediate post-Cold War period, embraced the post-1945 order, expecting restraint from the U.S. hegemon.

That team was made up of college players who defeated the Soviet Union at the height of the Cold War. The political stakes were enormous. Diplomatic channels were frozen at the time. The Moscow Olympics would soon be boycotted.

A New Cold War? Milley’s remarks came on the heels of the release of a new Heritage Foundation report (pdf), which holds that the United States has entered into a new Cold War with China and outlines a defensive plan to counter the threat.

Copeland presents his case by using case studies of the American Revolution, the War of 1812, the Mexican–American War, the Oregon Territory dispute with Great Britain, the Spanish–American War, World War I, World War II, and the Cold War conflicts of

Commentary At the end of the Cold War while the “Eastern Bloc” was dissolving rapidly, most Western economies entered into a recession. So the “winners” of the Cold War were not in a position to extract vengeance from the “losers.”

Set in the 1960s, these compelling stories follow Gabriel Dax, a travel writer turned reluctant MI6 asset, from London to Cold War hotspots like Eastern Europe, Guatemala, and Berlin.

In 2013, Obama was possibly the first U.S. leader to acknowledge the existence of Area 51, an Air Force base built during the Cold War, which has long been rumored to house extraterrestrials and unidentified flying objects (UFOs).