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Zero Hour - Origins of the Cold War
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The origins of the Cold War can be traced back to World War 1 and World War 2. In the final months of World War 2, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Winston Churchill and Joseph Stalin already .. show full overview
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The Korean War - The Cold War Turns Hot!
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Not so long after World War 2, the Cold War had its first very hot conflict. After the separation of Korea into a communist north and a pro-western south, the stage was set for war. A .. show full overview
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The Iron Curtain Has Decended and Germany Gets Divided
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The agreements made late during World War 2 were soon to become obsolete when the USSR and the Allies couldn't agree on the economic future of Germany. After the US further alienated .. show full overview
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Weapons of Mass Destruction
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"Now I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds." a famous quote from Robert Oppenheimer the father of the Atomic Bomb. The most obvious Weapon of Mass Destruction that most people think .. show full overview
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The Father of the Berlin Wall - Walter Ulbricht
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"No one intends to build a wall!“ - Walter Ulbricht's famous quote, implying that nobody would dare to close the borders between West Germany and the GDR, confirmed the plans for a wall .. show full overview
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On the Pitch and in Space - The Contest of Ideologies
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The Cold War certainly happened on a multitude of fronts like sports, science and of course the military. Each super power had to prove that their ideology was superior through .. show full overview
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A Child of War - Invention of the Computer
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When Alan Turing built his first computer to crack the Nazi codes of the Enigma with his Turing Machine, he was far from the first one to think of the universal calculator. Even on the .. show full overview
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Proxy War in Nicaragua - US-Arms Deals with Iran
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Nicaragua is a perfect example of a small Latin American country being under crossfire by super powers. During the Cold War Communism seems a viable option for Nicaragua and the so .. show full overview
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The Cuban Missile Crisis and Espionage During the Cold War
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Espionage is what we don't know much about but what we instantly connect to the Cold War. Especially, the CIA and the KGB with their double agents were infamous for their activities and .. show full overview
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Cats, Memes and Porn - The History of the Internet
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t’s hard to imagine what our world would be like today without the invention of the internet. What it means to our society can be answered in many ways. Based on a project of internet .. show full overview
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The First Woman in Space - Valentina Tereshkova
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Valentina Tereshkova was the first woman in space. As a citizen of the Soviet Union she became a symbol of defeat to the West during the Space Race. As the USSR had not only beaten the .. show full overview
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The Doomsday Clock Is Ticking! - The Cold War Arms Race
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If it's 5 to 12, it's certainly time to do something to avoid a catastrophe. That metaphor is actually based on the doomsday clock, an imaginary clock set up by scientists during the .. show full overview
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Turning Point of the Vietnam War - The Tet Offensive
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The Vietnam War is the most prominent of the proxy wars during the Cold War. The turning point in the conflict was the Tet Offensive. A huge attack by the viet cong in various cities of .. show full overview
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The Electronic Revolution - The Synthesizer
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Until the 50s, the production of music was only possible with classical instruments. But during the time of rapid changes after World War 2, the old principles were about to change with .. show full overview
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Beatniks, Hippies and Free Love - The Counterculture
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Following the Second World war, a new generation prospers and they are sick of their parents old certitudes. They despise war and dream of a new world of peace and free love. This .. show full overview
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Between the Sexes - Sports Legend Ewa Klobukowska
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Ewa Klobukowska was a successful Polish athlete and she set several records during her career. When it came to her qualification for the Olympic Games in Mexico City 1968, she had to be .. show full overview
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The Soviet Master Spy - Rudolf Abel
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Trenchcoats, bugs and secret agents are things we all know from the movies. But the Cold War was a busy time for spies from the USA and the Soviet Union. The USSR sent a real master spy .. show full overview
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X-Men, Star Trek and Lord of the Rings - Cold War Culture
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What do Wolverine, Mr. Spock and Gandalf have in common? Their creators were all children of the Cold War during which arts and culture underwent a fundamental change. Comics, Science .. show full overview
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The Falklands War - A War for Lost Glory
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The Falklands War was based on an old colonial struggle between two former world powers. When the military Junta in Argentina decided to claim the Falkland Islands in the South Atlantic .. show full overview
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Hunting the Communists! - Joseph McCarthy
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Joseph McCarthy rose to fame during the 1950s fighting communism on American soil. The ever lingering fear of Soviet spies spreading un-Americanism in the US during the cold war hit a .. show full overview
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Fall of the Iron Curtain
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The Fall of the Berlin Wall is the event that stands out among the Revolutions of 1989 that ended the Cold War. The peaceful revolution and the German Reunification led to the Fall of .. show full overview
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Fast Food - Would You Like Capitalism With That?
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A city that is not plastered with branches of US Fast Food chains is a rare sight nowadays. That wasn't always the case. Fast Food, as we know it today, is a child of the economic boom .. show full overview
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Jihad with US-Arms - The Soviet-Afghan War
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When the Soviet Union intervened in Afghan Civil War, they created a spiral of violence that is still going on till this day. On the one side the Soviet troops weren't able to gain .. show full overview

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