Here are 15 inventions that came before the wheel. The Cold War competition with the Soviet Union inspired the United States to invest heavily in defense. Partially realism, partially paranoia ...

The hijacking crisis of September 1970 occurred against the backdrop of a decades-long Cold War between the planet's two strongest nations. Although the United States and Soviet Union had begun ...

NASA has been a symbol of human creativity, curiosity, and resolve since its founding on October 1, 1958. NASA was America's ambitious reaction to the Soviet Union's early achievements in space ...

The end of the Cold War By the beginning of the 1980s, the Soviet Union faced several challenges. The taking down of the Berlin Wall in 1989 kick-started the fall of the Soviet Union.

As the Cold War settled into détente in the early 1970s, Fidel Castro, following the Soviet line, began to soften his own antagonistic rhetoric against the United States. "We are neighbors," he ...