The collapse of the Soviet Union greatly reduced the West’s fear of another world war—a fear that had led Western leaders to tolerate Soviet spheres of influence in central and eastern Europe. Many ...

Katie and Datshiane look at the development of the Cold War, including post war tensions, The Yalta-Potsdam conferences, the Trumand Doctrine and Marshall Aid. This is the first episode in a ...

The US president’s snub of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy points to a break with Europe and NATO’s unified stance on ...

No doubt about it—the Russians were changing. At Yalta, as at earlier conferences, Stalin and other Soviet bigwigs shed a little more of their personal isolation. Stalin mugged the cameras ...

On this basis Yalta looked good. At Versailles the Big Four had been split before the conference began. Wilson acted rather as an arbiter between an unreasonably vindictive France and a prostrate ...

Six months later, Hitler invaded and reduced the Czech lands to a slave protectorate. At Yalta in 1945, and later at the Potsdam conference, the victorious “Big Three” (the USA, the Soviet Union and ...

The head of the presidential office, Cristian Diaconescu, accuses Russia of proposing a "new Yalta" and the withdrawal of US troops ... and see in it the danger of a "new Munich". At the Munich ...

The 2024/25 UEFA Conference League round of 16, quarter-final and semi-final draws took place on 21 February. Real Betis (ESP)/Vitória SC (POR) vs Jagiellonia (POL)/Cercle Brugge (BEL)* Celje ...

Speaking on the conference’s 60th anniversary ... to extend its reach beyond what had been presented at Yalta, and later at the Potsdam summit, as a fait accompli. By March 1946, when Churchill ...