Former Chilean president Salvador Allende was warned by the Soviet Union, East Germany and Cuba that Chilean military officers were preparing a military coup against him, which was being ...

I was born in the month of August in 1982. The Soviet Union was still in existence ... By Aug. 22, the coup had failed and so had the Russian Communist utopia. The political couple of Yeltsin ...

The Soviet Union detonated its first atomic bomb ... arrived in the middle of August. He observed the assembly work and reported back to Soviet leader Joseph Stalin. At 2 am on August 29 ...

play Gorbachev becomes leader of the Soviet Union In 1985 Gorbachev was appointed ... Mass demonstrations lead to the destruction of the Berlin Wall and the end of Communism.

Although the United States and Soviet Union had begun a process of détente ... Nixon and Brezhnev, National Archives Mutually Assured Destruction The key weapon of the Cold War, the nuclear ...