Tag: 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.
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.
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.
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.