Cold War

George Orwell’s ‘fairy story’ on the USSR was politically inconvenient in 1945. Opinions on Animal Farm were soon revised, but its targets – and its author – are easily misunderstood.

David Williamson explains why events in Berlin twice threatened to unleash a third world war.

Mark Weisenmiller explains how, forty years ago, the ‘Sunshine State’ played a pivotal role in the Cuban Missile Crisis.

Paul Dukes analyses a number of books on the conflict.

Sean Lang has built his passion for history on several key experiences, both in terms of teaching and learning.

Siegfried Beer looks at the links between The Third Man and British intelligence.

Paul Dukes takes a fresh look at the Cold War in the light of some recurring themes of Russian and American history since the 18th century.

To Cold War hawks the ambitions of Stalin lay behind Kim Il Sung. Only with the opening of archives some 50 years later did Soviet responsibility for the Korean War become known.

When North Korean tanks and infantry crossed the Thirty-Eighth Parallel in 1950, the Korean War began. The three-year war cost United Nations and South Korean forces over 200,000 casualties.

The scientist was found guilty of betraying atomic secrets on March 1st, 1950.