One by one, Communist governments loyal to Moscow seized power in Poland, Hungary, Romania, and Bulgaria. Soviet Communism soon dominated Eastern Europe. The Cold War had begun.

After World War Two a Cold War developed between the capitalist Western countries and the Communist countries of the Eastern Bloc. Soviet leader Joseph Stalin wanted a buffer zone of friendly ...

Nato has been begging European nations to fix choke points for its so-called "battle map" for a decade. Now EU commissioners admit they still need to spend £60 billion before Nato troops will be able ...

Roosevelt and Churchill agree to allow Stalin to control the governments of Eastern Europe at war's end, thereby setting the stage for future Cold War clashes. March: U.S. forces cross the Rhine ...

Private archive of Jacek Chyrosz, Warsaw (Poland). Reproduced with permission In the course of the Cold War, architects, planners, and construction companies from socialist Eastern Europe collaborated ...