There are three types of questions to try: knowledge, skills and develop the detail. The questions in this quiz are suitable for GCSE History students studying various topics such as the background to ...

Now as the 25th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall approaches, CNN will re-air its epic 24-part landmark series to give viewers a chance to see how the events of yesterday have shaped the ...

The Cold War By John Lewis Gaddis. Penguin; 352 pages; $19 and £14.99. This concise history by John Lewis Gaddis, often ...

Longtime Bowdoin history professor Allen Wells recasts the recent history of Latin America as a battle of democracy vs. dictatorship, rather than left vs. right. “When we think of Latin America, the ...

Conventional histories usually mark the beginning of the Cold War to the year 1946 or 1947. But in truth the Cold War began during the Second World War. Great Britain welcomed Josef Stalin’s Soviet ...

Discover how a forgotten Cold War-era cartoonist used bold satire and fearless artistic expression to challenge power, ...

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Let me be direct: the Beijing summit between Trump and Xi was not a breakthrough. It was not even a pause. It was simply a ...

The Diplomat author Mercy Kuo regularly engages subject-matter experts, policy practitioners, and strategic thinkers across the globe for their diverse insights into U.S. Asia policy. This ...

These psychic experiments began in 1924, when Gleb Bokii, head of the special section of the Soviet secret police, opened a secret laboratory at 21 Kuznetsky Bridge in Moscow. With the help of ...