The rise and fall of the Berlin Wall

“The rise and fall of the Berlin Wall,” a TEDed video by Konrad H. Jarausch. Animation by Kyriaki Kyriakou, Remus Buznea, and Mitko Karakolev.

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Cold War

“Cold War,” a 1951 Disney Studios theatrical cartoon featuring Goofy as “George Geef.” Directed by Jack Kinney; written by Dick Kinney and Milt Schaffer. Principal animation by Edwin Aardal, Hugh Fraser, and Wolfgang Reitherman. Music by Joseph Dubin.

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Ooops! There Goes the Berlin Wall.

November 9, 1989: one of the biggest moments in the Cold War started with a little confusion at Günter Schabowski‘s press conference. A Vox video.

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Duck and Cover!

Phil Edwards of Vox on the rise and fall of the American fallout shelter.

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Reagan Foreign Policy Based on Fiction

“Ronald Reagan had an unusual suggestion to help Margaret Thatcher understand the mentality of the Soviet leader: read Tom Clancy’s thriller.
Papers released by the National Archives in Kew, London, reveal the former US president was ‘much impressed’ with Clancy’s Red Storm Rising, which takes places in Russia where an Islamist terror attack triggers a Third World War.
After his meeting with Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev, Mr. Reagan said that reading the book would help Mrs Thatcher understand Russia’s Cold War thinking.”

—  Valerie Edwards, The Daily Mail [links added]

See You in C-U-B-A!

“The United States and Cuba agreed on Wednesday to restore diplomatic ties that Washington severed more than 50 years ago, and President Barack Obama called for an end to the long economic embargo against its old Cold War enemy.”

— “U.S., Cuba restore ties after 50 years,” Daniel Trotta and Steve Holland, Reuters