Category: East Germany

Europe 1955

Warsaw Pact

After the death of Stalin in 1953, a thaw in...

Northern Eurasia 1955

Warsaw Pact

After the death of Stalin in 1953, a thaw in...

Europe 1963

Berlin Wall

The coming of the 1960s saw the Cold War...

Northern Eurasia 1963

Height of the Cold War

Although the Warsaw Pact was officially a...

Northern Eurasia 1969

Sino-Soviet Border Conflict

The Cuban Missile Crisis (1962) had brought...

Europe 1972

Detente

The crises of the early ‘60s brought the...

the Arctic 1977

Nuclear Standoff

In 1949, the Soviet Union tested its first...

Europe 1989

Fall of the Berlin Wall

By the 1980s, the Eastern Bloc had begun to...

Northern Eurasia 1989

Glasnost

By the late 1980s, the Soviet Union was...