The State Department combined several programs dating to the Cold War into the current program in nineteen ninety-eight.

VOA: special.2009.06.11

The hot line had an important purpose: to prevent accidental war between the two competitors during the period known as the Cold War.

VOA: special.2009.12.06

The United States created the Peace Corps during the cold war with the Soviet Union.

VOA: special.2010.09.23

During the period of the Cold War, an estimated 30 million people in Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union listened to him on the radio.

VOA: special.2009.01.30

Russia and the United States have completed the largest spy exchange since the Cold War.

VOA: special.2010.07.10

And in 1961, during the Cold War with the Soviet Union, John Kennedy urged people to take an active part in the future: "And so, my fellow Americans, ask not what your country can do for you - ask what you can do for your country.

VOA: special.2009.01.19

The technology has spread to many new countries and less stable countries since the end of the Cold War,".

VOA: standard.2009.10.23

Although the case is reminiscent of episodes from the Cold War, Russia hailed the exchange as a positive development.

VOA: standard.2010.07.09

The rapid succession of events restructuring, the system. Hungary Czechoslovakia . which marked the end of the Cold War is not in dispute.

VOA: standard.2009.11.03

"Because 20 years after the end of the Cold War, the U.S.-Russian relationship has to be about more than just security and arms control."

VOA: standard.2010.06.24

The pilot's son, Francis Gary Powers Jr., is director of the Cold War Museum in Arlington,Virginia.

VOA: standard.2010.05.07

The U.S.imposed an economic embargo on Cuba in the early 1960s when it moved toward Communism and aligned with Russia during the Cold War.

VOA: standard.2009.05.06

It came into force in 1994. Daryl Kimball,Executive Director of the Arms Control Association, a private research firm, says that treaty helped end the Cold War.

VOA: standard.2009.12.07

The definitive history of the Cold War's end clearly has yet to be written.

VOA: standard.2009.11.03

That led to the reunification of Germany and the end of the Cold War.

VOA: standard.2009.11.09

"During the Cold War in particular, the U.S.and Russia produced for military purposes."

VOA: standard.2010.04.06

In an interview with the Associated Press prior to his departure, the president spoke of his desire to break free of the last vestiges of the Cold War.

VOA: standard.2009.07.06

It was the most tangible symbol of the Cold War.

VOA: standard.2009.11.09

But the end of World War II signaled the beginning of the Cold War between the United States and Russia in which CIA pilot Francis Gary Powers played a central role.

VOA: standard.2010.05.07

But Nye tells VOA that while the power of U.S.ideas and its ability "to deter Soviet aggression" are essential to understanding the end of the Cold War, neither are root causes.

VOA: standard.2009.11.03

But in the end, protests and peaceful revolutions in the region brought it down, leading to the re-unification of Germany, the end of the Cold War and geopolitical shifts in Europe and beyond.

VOA: standard.2009.11.09

(MOIVE SOUND) Mixed in are harrowing memories shared by a generation of World War II veterans, like DiCaprio's character, as well as the Cold War tensions affecting so many lives in the 1950s.

VOA: standard.2010.02.27

Today's nuclear threat differs from that of the Cold War, according to U.S.Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, "The threat of nuclear war, nuclear attack that we grew up with in the Cold War has diminished.

VOA: standard.2010.04.11

While calling the Cuban statement hostile and reminiscent of the Cold War, Susan Rice said the Obama administration is committed to trying to write a new chapter in relations with Cuba by engaging the Havana government.

VOA: standard.2009.10.28

"There was de Coubertin who started the whole thing, there was Avery Brundage who saved it during the cold war era, and Samaranch who got it, if you like,from the 19th century into the 21st century."

VOA: standard.2010.04.21

Clinton said the two countries, which had frosty relations during the Cold War era and beyond, still differ on some key issues but that their new partnership has the potential to be a "signature accomplishment" of the two governments.

VOA: standard.2009.07.20