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Korea is often called the Forgotten War in American memory, sandwiched between the triumph of World War II and the trauma of Vietnam. This is an American memory…
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# Latin America: How the Cold War Made Coup Culture Respectable
The history of American intervention in Latin America did not begin with the Cold War. The Unit…
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# The Legacy: What the Proxy Wars Left Behind
When the Berlin Wall fell in 1989 and the Soviet Union dissolved in 1991, the Cold War ended. The proxy wars it h…
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# Angola: Where Cuban Soldiers, Oil Revenue, and Superpower Chess Converged
Angola's civil war, which began at independence in 1975 and didn't formally end unt…
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# Korea: The Test Case for Limited War
When North Korean forces crossed the 38th parallel in June 1950, the United States faced a question it had never fully a…
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# Vietnam: How an Ideological Framing Became a Strategic Trap
The United States' involvement in Vietnam is often described as a failure of strategy. That's acc…
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# What the Superpowers Actually Wanted from the Proxy Wars
The standard account of Cold War proxy conflicts frames them as competitions over ideology: democrac…
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# The Berlin Wall: How Cold War Ideology Became Physical Geography
Between 1949 and 1961, roughly 2.7 million people left East Germany for the West. They walke…
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# Proxy Wars and the Cold War Logic: Korea, Vietnam, Angola, and What the Superpowers Actually Wanted
Here's a thought that takes a moment to fully settle: nei…
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In the summer of 1956, Gamal Abdel Nasser nationalized the Suez Canal Company. The move was technically legal under Egyptian law, publicly popular, and economic…
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