Cover: All photographs from AP/Wide World Photos

The Marshall Plan: A Story in Pictures

The Suez Crisis: A Crisis That Changed the Balance of Power in the Middle East
Peter L. Hahn, Professor of U.S. Diplomatic History, The Ohio State University, and Executive Director, the Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations

This year marks the 50th anniversary of the Suez Crisis, when a major regional war nearly erupted between Egypt, Israel, Britain, and France that may have drawn in the Soviet Union and the United States

Brussels Universal and International Exposition (Expo 1958)

The Expo provided the backdrop for the cultural Cold War between the United States and Soviet Union.

Nixon In China: A Turning Point in World History
Warren I. Cohen, Distinguished University Professor of History and Presidential Research Professor, University of Maryland, Baltimore County

The 1949 victory of the Chinese communists in the Chinese civil war had a shattering impact upon the United States, but by 1972 tensions had eased and each found the need to resume normalization.

Ping-Pong Diplomacy Spearheaded U.S.-Chinese Relations

Unlikely diplomats went to play table tennis and changed history along the way.

Trade and Economics as a Force in U.S. Foreign Relations
Maarten L. Pereboom, Professor of History and Chairman, Department of History, Salisbury University

Emerging as a world leader in the 20th century, the United States, while certainly continuing to pursue its own economic interests abroad, drew upon its Enlightenment roots and promoted the ideals of freedom, democracy, and open markets in the belief that “free nations trading freely” would result in the worldwide improvement of the human condition.

After the Cold War
Walter Laqueur, Co-Chair, International Research Council, Center for Strategic and International Studies

When the Cold War came to an end in 1989 with the dismantling of the Berlin wall, when the countries of Eastern Europe regained independence, and when finally the Soviet Union disintegrated, there was widespread feeling throughout the world that at long last universal peace had descended on Earth.

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