...The number of surviving veterans is diminishing, but family memories, the work of historians and cultural organisations, including museums (even if closed) perpetuate the significance of the day when war...
...US Army Major General William F. Dean, Commanding Officer of the 24th Infantry Division. (Korean War Signal Corps Collection). The DPRK’s invasion might herald a wider Soviet threat or even...
...mutual suspicion underpinned the Potsdam discussions. Stalin feared the dominance of Western capitalism, while Britain and the US worried about communist influence in Europe. No peace treaty was signed at...
...Day, is marked by Japan and the UK on 15 August. The United States marks it on 2 September, the anniversary of the signature of the Instrument of Surrender on...
Forty-five years ago this month 35 nations signed the Helsinki Final Act following the 2-year Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe (CSCE). A politically binding agreement, the Final Act...
...on 5 March 1946. License from America's Churchill Museum CH.07.041a Seventy five years ago, Winston Churchill made a speech at Fulton, Missouri, which some consider the start of the Cold...
...board HMS Prince of Wales [Licence: Creative Commons Attribution Wikimedia] ‘The President of the United States of America and the Prime Minister, Mr. Churchill, representing His Majesty’s Government in the...
...representatives in Paris were hardly consulted, being simply presented with a treaty and told to sign it. This treaty was signed in August 1920 in the renowned former French state...