The Cold War period largely spans from the end of World War II in 1945 until the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991. While the US and the USSR never engaged in direct military conflict, their ...

The CIA Book Club is the story of the US organisation's programme of sending free-thinking, uncensored literature into the ...

During the Cold War, governments around the world continued to view zoos through an ideological lens. This was especially ...

The Vietnam War ended before most of the current population was born, but like many young people Hoang Ha Linh was swept up ...

Zanzibar played a critical role in America’s early manned space exploration efforts through the installation of a ground ...

In January 1968, during the Vietnamese New Year holiday known as Tet, North Vietnamese forces and the Vietcong launched a massive surprise attack across over 100 cities and military targets in South ...

Wednesday marks 50 years since the “fall of Saigon” and the end of the Vietnam War ... that the communist-led revolutionaries might kill them. There was plenty of U.S. and RVN propaganda ...

Communist North Vietnam's victory over the US-backed South culminated in tanks crashing through the gates of the presidential palace. The defeat for its Cold War ally, and the chaotic scenes of ...

Trump's tariffs on Chinese goods are now at a whopping 145 percent. Despite carve-outs on certain high-tech products like ...