The rise of Cold War tensions didn't happen overnight. It happened during the daytime. (Actually, it happened little by little over years in a kind of slow creep.) One of the first people to notice...

What's up with U.S. presidents going to Berlin and making really good speeches? They did it all the time. Although Kennedy craftily didn't name the Soviet premier who he was mad at—maybe he just...

Right about now you might be thinking that the United States was totally on the right side of this whole communism debacle and that Cold War era U.S. politicians should all be canonized as world-sa...

We know why the Berlin Wall was built: to stop people from moving away from the Soviet sector in Berlin. But obviously the communists didn't want to come right out and say that. So what did they te...