Cold War
25 Photographs of the History of the FBI, Part 2: World War I, Espionage, and the Red Scare
The Bureau of Investigation started with mostly white-collar and civil rights cases such as land fraud, banking fraud, copyright violations,…
20 Photographs Reliving the Moscow Music Peace Festival of 1989
The Moscow Music Peace Festival was a series of performances by famous rock bands in the Soviet Union on August…
21 Moving Images of the Warsaw Uprising During World War II
In 1939, the Nazi German forces began their occupation of Poland. By 1944, the Russians were advancing from the East…
18 Captivating Images of the History of the Berlin Wall
On June 15, 1961, the First Secretary of the Socialist Union Party and the German Democratic Republic State Council, chairman…
Lone Wolves: 7 Assassins Behind Failed Presidential Murder Attempts You May Not Heard Of
Over the last few decades, presidential assassination attempts have become such regular occurrences, it sometimes feels as if this was…
Today in History: US Sends Troops to Korea (1950)
Tensions between the United States and the Soviet Union began even before the end of the Second World War. The…
Today in History: United Nations Charter is Signed in San Francisco (1945)
For most of its history, the United Nations has been very controversial. Some countries proclaim that it has too much…
Today in History: The Pentagon Papers Criticize Cold War Policy (1971)
The Vietnam War became very unpopular very quickly, and there were a lot of reasons for that. The protests for the…
Today in History: “Mr. Gorbachev, Tear Down this Wall.” (1987)
By the mid-1980s, it was very clear that the Soviet Union was on the verge of collapse. The government structure…
Today in History: The ‘Domino Theory’ Comes Under Fire by the CIA (1964)
Vietnam was a devastating war for America. Over the course of 20 years, the United States fought to keep the…