...Republic of China did not result in war. Kennedy exploited a potentially dangerous Sino-Soviet split to promote useful détente with the USSR. His willingness to negotiate defused the Skybolt crisis...
...but uncertainty, unrest and ideological struggle had a global dimension. At the beginning of 1949, Mao Zedong was on the brink of overcoming Nationalist resistance and the People’s Republic of...
...Jose Mourinho or Arsene Wenger, but by Kim Il Sung, Eternal Leader of the Democratic People’s Republic of North Korea (DPRK) in the 1960s. This tactical insight may not be...
...international order with military aggression against the Chinese Republic, in Manchuria (September 1931) and Shanghai (January 1932). There was little international response: the League of Nations was militarily toothless, the...
...Berlin Airlift, contributed to the formation of NATO and the creation of the Federal Republic of Germany. It also prevented the starvation of the two and a half million inhabitants...
...This was particularly marked in respect of Communist China, where British recognition of the People’s Republic in January 1950 angered a US administration that had not abandoned support for the...
...steady flow of refugees from the East. Most took advantage of the relatively open borders in Berlin compared with the more heavily policed national borders of the German Democratic Republic...
...Minister. Dating from the late seventeenth century, this historic building has been the scene of hundreds of years of political decision-making at the highest level. Despite its central role at...
...that includes Nos. 11 and 12, with the two buildings that now make up No. 10 joined together around a central courtyard. From inside, it is easy to become disorientated...
...disagreements prompted Parliament shutting in 1629. As a result the Privy Council took on a more central role in government, functioning as the chief body through which Royal order, administration...