Military history professor Bill Allison rates more Vietnam War movies, such as "Forrest Gump ... Russian roulette scene of "The Deer Hunter" (1978), with Christopher Walken, Robert De Niro ...

The world experienced a bumpy ride in the final years of the Cold War, with post-Vietnam détente, the Star Wars rhetoric of the US, the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan and the collapse of communism.

Attitudes shaped by World War II were not always a good fit in the Vietnam era. Decisions that might have previously gone unchallenged now generated substantial protest. One of the unique pieces ...

In recent years I have learned that, for the people of Vietnam, the war has never ended. Millions of the unexploded bombs and land mines we left behind still kill and maim children and farmers ...

The Cold War is the title given to the period of tension between the two superpowers, the USA and the USSR, which dominated international relations for most of the second half of the 20th century.