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The Cold War Time Travel 

The period known as Détente

November 5, 2015December 3, 2015 Kitty Gibson 20th century, cold war, detente, history, Russia, Soviet Union, USA

The French word “détente” means a release of tension and this is what occurred at the beginning of the 1970s

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The Cold War Time Travel 

John F. Kennedy (USA) – (1917-1963)

October 23, 2015June 13, 2017 Aaron Potter cold war, cuban missile crisis, flexible response, John F. Kennedy

By the time President John F. Kennedy (JFK) came into office in 1961, the fight against communist aggression was still

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The Cold War Time Travel 

Joseph Stalin (USSR) – Cold war – (1878-1953)

October 21, 2015October 22, 2015 Aaron Potter cold war, Joseph Stalin (USSR)

In the aftermath following the Second World War, Stalin’s main aims for the Soviet Union were to rebuild the damages

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The Cold War Time Travel 

Marshal Josip Broz Tito

October 12, 2015June 13, 2017 Ben Wynes cold war, dictator, Marshal Josip Broz Tito, Yugoslavia

Marshal Josip Broz Tito was the leader of Yugoslavia (a country in south-east Europe) for much of the Cold War.

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The Cold War Time Travel 

Bay of Pigs

October 5, 2015June 13, 2017 Kitty Gibson Bay of pigs, Castro, cold war, Cuba, cuban, JFK, John F. Kennedy, Soviet Union, US

The Cold War did not just happen between the US and the Soviet Union. With the nature of warzones, other

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The Cold War Time Travel 

Berlin Blockade and Airlift

October 2, 2015August 29, 2017 Kitty Gibson Berlin Blockade and Airlift, cold war, east berlin, Germany

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=naqS-BlpfU4   The first major event was the Berlin Blockade and Airlift in 1948. Berlin was in the Soviet zone

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The Cold War Time Travel 

The Berlin Wall

September 29, 2015June 13, 2017 Kitty Gibson 1961, 1989, Berlin, Brandenburg Gate, cold war, east berlin, fall of the berlin wall, GDR, German Democratic Republic, Germany, Khrushchev, the capital of Germany, USSR, warsaw pact, west berlin

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=naqS-BlpfU4 It began with barbed wire, and then an actual wall divided an entire city. This was the case for

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The Cold War Time Travel 

The Cold War – An Introduction

September 26, 2015June 13, 2017 Kitty Gibson 20th century, Capitalism, cold war, Communism, history, Russia, Socialism, Soviet Union, The Cold War – An Introduction, USA, USSR

The war in Europe ended in 1945. But an even greater war, without the use of battles and guns, was

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The Cold War Time Travel 

The Korean War (1950-53)

September 2, 2015June 13, 2017 Aaron Potter 1950, cold war, fifties, korea, north korea, south korea, The Korean War, uk, USA, war by ‘Proxy’

During the aftermath of the Second World War, both Russia and America had jointly liberated Korea from the Japanese who

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