The Cuban Missile Crisis happened one year after the construction of the Berlin Wall, which was a major source of Cold War tension in Europe. America and the Soviet Union were competing in the ...

A new chapter in the cold war? Certainly for now, Havana is preparing for yet another, more disagreeable chapter in the U.S.—Cuban Cold War. But Trump is unpredictable. Given that he will never ...

Cash-starved Cuba this month opened the first grocery store to accept hard U.S. currency on the island in nearly two decades, ...

Havana Club will keep churning out its famously smooth rum even as Cuba's sugar cane harvests plummet to historic lows and ...

Of all the aspects of the Cuban Revolution ... has been felt in U.S. politics and policy — logically during the Cold War, but also for more than a decade since its conclusion," writes Latin ...

This course examines the period of crises and détente in the Cold War between the Cuban Missile Crisis in 1962 and the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan in 1979. The course centres on how markets, ideas, ...

But over 60 years after the Cold War began, Cuban cigars are still illegal in the U.S. Why is that? Cuban cigars are illegal because of a longstanding trade embargo with Cuba. In 1962, at the ...

However, a revelation about the United States’ nuclear security during the Cold War has surfaced, leaving many surprised. During the Cuban Missile Crisis and the Cold War, the U.S. reportedly ...

Explore the events of the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis and hear from some ... tense standoff that led the world to the brink of nuclear war. Submariners from both sides talk about the conflict ...