The Cold War

The end of World War II and the descent of the Iron Curtain

The Marshall Plan and the Berlin Airlift

The Korean War

McCarthyism and the "Red Menace"

Behind the curtain

The Cold War heats up

Mutual assured destruction

The Bay of Pigs and the Cuban Missile Crisis

The Vietnam War

Ďtente and "the China card"

Proxy Wars

Reagan and Gorbachev: from Star Wars to Perestroika

The collapse of the Soviet Empire

Russia and the world in the post-Cold War era.