On March 11, 1990, Lithuania became the first Soviet Republic to declare its independence from the Soviet Union. The U.S.S.R.

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Donald Trump is being drawn into the kind of proxy war with Russia that his predecessors have been trying to avoid since the ...

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Khamenei assumed office as Iran’s supreme leader in 1989. At the time, the global political landscape looked dramatically different. Here’s a snapshot of leaders who were in power when he took charge: ...

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On 1946, Winston Churchill, in a famous speech in Fulton, Mo., stated that a Soviet Union "Iron Curtain" had "descended ...

In 1946, less than a year after the end of World War Two, Britain's wartime leader sounded an urgent warning about the Soviet threat to the West.

President Donald Trump took the podium on Tuesday for his first official State of the Union address of his second term, ...

Eight decades ago, Winston Churchill warned of Soviet aggression in a speech that angered many Americans but proved prophetic ...

Historical conflicts between the US and Cuba span six decades and include Cuban Revolution, Bay of Pigs invasion and the Cuban Missile Crisis.

The new World War 2 film follows a historic meeting between Winston Churchill and Joseph Stalin.