When the leader of the Soviet Union Joseph Stalin died on March 5, 1953, millions in the country wept with grief. Many millions more wept, unsure of why. For almost three decades, the Soviet people ...

Nuclear armament of the U.S. and the USSR in the 1940s; establishment of NATO and the Warsaw Pact; the Space Race; the Cuban ...

During his trip to America in 1959, Nikita Khrushchev stopped by 20th Century Fox studios in Los Angeles to mingle with some of Hollywood's biggest stars. While there, he ranted about his canceled ...

In 1959, Nikita Khrushchev became the first Soviet premier to visit the United States. Both Khrushchev and President Dwight Eisenhower hoped the visit would ease Cold War tensions between their ...

The new leader Nikita Khrushchev looked for a peaceful coexistence ... Eastern Europe throughout the 1950s and early 1960s. The Cold War even spread to the Caribbean.

(Sputnik would also earn Nikita Khrushchev the title of TIME’s Man ... himself grew so far beyond the old feuds of the Cold War that in 1991 he and his wife emigrated to the U.S. and in 1999 ...

Khrushchev and Kennedy on a Collision Course" (BookBaby), veteran journalist Marvin Kalb writes about the 1963 Cold War summit between President John F. Kennedy and Soviet Premier Nikita ...

Soviet premier Nikita Khrushchev traveled across the United States, meeting Americans from New York to Iowa to California. Fact or Fiction? The Legend of the QWERTY Keyboard (03:36) What Does a ...

The Cuban Missile Crisis happened one year after the construction of the Berlin Wall, which was a major source of Cold War tension ... Union and their leader, Nikita Khrushchev.