Tag: cold-war
Tag: cold-war
4 pages tagged cold-war.
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Chapter 52: NATO and the Warsaw Pact — World History 101
How the WWII allies split into two armed alliances, divided Europe with an Iron Curtain, and spent four decades on the edge of a nuclear war that — miraculously — never came.
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Chapter 57: Korea, Vietnam, and Afghanistan — World History 101
The Cold War’s hot wars: how proxy conflicts in Korea, Vietnam, and Afghanistan let the superpowers fight each other without ever facing each other.
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Chapter 59: The Paradox of Iranian Democracy — World History 101
Mossadegh, the 1953 CIA coup, the 1979 revolution, and the layered theocracy that grew from a stolen democracy.
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Chapter 60: The Decline and Fall of the Soviet Union — World History 101
Stagnation, glasnost, perestroika, the fall of the Berlin Wall, and the August 1991 coup that ended the USSR.
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