The incoming president is a two-time winner of the title like former Soviet Union Prime Minister Joseph Stalin, still ...
In 1963, Russia became the second European superpower to recognise the sovereignty and independence of Kenya after Germany.
Nothing caught global attention and heightened tensions as did the Cuban Missile Crisis. The new young President John F.
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Writing Across the Divide ...
In 1959, at the opening of the American National Exhibition in Moscow, in front of a model American kitchen full of ...
Traditional ideals of gender roles hark back to a time of extreme American nationalist sentiment in the face of a significant ...
What is the future likely to bring? A reasonable stance might be to try to look at the human species from the outside. So ...
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United Nations, 1960: the Global South ignites a political earthquake, jazz musicians Abbey Lincoln and Max Roach crash the Security Council, Nikita Khrushchev bangs ...
During the Cold War, the superpowers signed a number of arms control agreements that helped build trust and limit the scope ...
When George Washington was a boy and he chopped down his father's cherry tree, he supposedly said he could not tell a lie, and admitted the deed to his old man. But the story is a lie. It never ...