The Cold War was the defining global conflict of the ... of 1956 flashpoints threatened to destabilise both Eastern and Western bloc alliances and threatened the future of the BBC.

This map shows NATO’s expansion eastward in Europe. Many countries in western Europe ... the end of the Cold War, more than a dozen countries from the former Eastern bloc have joined.

it has become the front line of a post-Cold War tug-of-war between Russia and the West. By insisting on NATO’s withdrawing its forces and weapons from former Soviet bloc countries, Putin would ...

But a cold war between the United States and a Sino-Russian bloc could be even costlier and ... its own against the U.S. military in the western Pacific. China is on course to eventually take ...

as well as renewed fears of a unified anti-western bloc that could potentially precipitate a new Cold War. A closer examination of global geopolitics and economics, however, suggests that instead ...

[2] See Antras (2021). [3] During the Cold War, the world was divided into two blocs, a Western and Eastern bloc, and a set of non-aligned countries. The analysis uses the bloc definition based on ...

Concerned that Cold War rivalries would lead to violence, East Bloc athletes are housed in a separate Olympic village from their western competitors. Video of the opening ceremonies below ...

Yet what terrified U.S. officials most was the possibility that Soviet ideology would resonate with the Western ... cold-war-modern-ukraine-and-the-spread-of-democracy-in-the-former-soviet-bloc ...