By mid-1947, as East-West tensions over economic recovery in Germany and the Greek Civil War escalated, Eisenhower gave up his hopes for cooperation with the Soviets and agreed with a containment policy to stop Soviet expansion.

During the Cold War, Germany's partition by the Iron Curtain made it a symbol of East-West tensions and a political battleground in Europe.

Talks with Nikita Khrushchev eased tensions in East-West relations over West Berlin and led to an agreement in principle to stop nuclear tests and to hold a further summit meeting of Allied and Soviet heads of government.

The tensions led in 1054 to a serious rupture between the Greek East and Latin West called the East-West schism, which while not in many places absolute, still dominates the ecclesiastical landscape.

While it was Jimmy Carter who had officially ended the policy of détente following Soviet intervention in Afghanistan, East-West tensions in the early 1980s reached levels not seen since the Cuban Missile Crisis.

East-West tensions eased rapidly after the rise of Mikhail Gorbachev.

It came at a time of heightened East-West tensions, caused in particular by the debate over the stationing of short range American missiles in Europe and the United States ' record peacetime defense buildup.

Several senior staffers and aides advised against the phrase, saying anything that might cause further East-West tensions or potential embarrassment to Gorbachev, with whom President Reagan had built a good relationship, should be omitted.

For centuries under Hanseatic and German influence and then during its inter-war independence, Latvia used its geographic location as an important East-West commercial and trading center.

From 3 October 1957, to 1966, Willy Brandt was Mayor of West Berlin, during a period of increasing tension in East-West relations that led to the construction of the Berlin Wall.

A predominantly rural community for most of its existence, Naperville experienced a population explosion starting in the 1960s, but largely during the 1980s and 1990s, following the construction of the East-West Tollway ( now known as the Ronald Reagan Memorial Tollway ) and Interstate 355 ( originally known as the North-South Tollway, now the Veterans Memorial Tollway ).

Potomac prospered into the late 20th century, with a population peaking at 900 during the 1970 census, due in part to its location along US Route 136, one of the primary East-West highways crossing the state of Illinois.

He re-introduced Plato's thoughts to Western Europe during the 1438-1439 Council of Florence, a failed attempt to reconcile the East-West schism.

Charlottenburger Chausee was a part of the Ost-West-Achse ( East-West Axis ), which during the Nazis became a triumphal avenue lined with Nazi flags.

The Mahendra Highway ( also called East-West Highway ) that runs along the entire Terai belt in southern Nepal was constructed during his reign.

West Germany ( and West Berlin ) were centers of East-West conflict during the Cold War, and numerous Communist fronts were established.

It was during this period that he was invited to serve as a visiting professor at both Cambridge and Princeton universities and was appointed to the governing boards of such organisations as the International Council for Educational Development, the East-West Centre, the Asian Institute of Management, and the International Food Policy Research Institute.

The station serves the suburb of Silver Spring, and is located at Colesville Road ( U. S. Route 29 ) and East-West Highway ; trains from Grosvenor-Strathmore terminate here during midday.

East-West relations were put under more pressure by the Soviet troops ' 1979 Soviet invasion of Afghanistan during the Christmas holiday.

Reform initiatives launched by the Soviet Union during the East-West antagonism in the 1950s to curtail the independence of the Secretariat by replacing the post of Secretary-General with a troika, including a representative from the socialist states.

The East-West Expressway was originally designed to, and still does, relieve traffic congestion on SR 50 during rush hour.

during the scene of the family's first East-West Berlin outing, although it does not appear on the soundtrack album.

The East-West gateways open to the Long Xang Avenue, which is used during ceremonial national parades.

There were numerous church synods held in Dalmatia in the 11th century, particularly after the East-West Schism, during the course of which the use of the Latin rite was continuously reinforced until it became dominant.

Posey unwisely attempted to start the East-West League in 1932, during the Depression, but it did not last the season.

While in the first five years following World War II, massive emigration from these states to the West occurred, restrictions implemented thereafter stopped most East-West migration, except that under limited bilateral and other agreements.

On his arrival at Rome, his first act was to summon the council which met at the Second Council of Lyons in 1274 for the purpose of considering the East-West Schism, the condition of the Holy Land, and the abuses of the Roman Catholic Church.

Over the centuries, disagreements separated Western Christianity from the various forms of Eastern Christianity: first from East Syrian Christianity after the Council of Ephesus ( 431 ), then from that of Oriental Orthodoxy after the Council of Chalcedon ( 451 ), and then from Eastern Orthodoxy with the East-West Schism of 1054.

Europe was the ultimate beneficiary of Eurasia's East-West orientation: in the first millennium BC, the Mediterranean areas of Europe adopted the Middle East's animals, plants, and agricultural techniques ; in the first millennium AD, the rest of Europe followed suit.

On November 9, 1989 the East-West German border crossing near Salzwedel was opened, along with East-West border crossings in the rest of the country, allowing East Germans residing in Salzwedel and elsewhere to travel freely to West Germany for the first time since the building of the Berlin Wall.

Junkers W33 Bremen after the first East-West Atlantic crossing

This is the first documented East-West series of games.

Originally titled the " Tournament East-West football game ," it is considered to be the first Rose Bowl.

Originally titled the " Tournament East-West football game ," the first Rose Bowl was played on January 1, 1902, starting the tradition of New Year's Day bowl games.

* December 3-The first East-West Grey Cup game took place between the Toronto Argonauts and the Edmonton Eskimos.

He was the top vote getter and the winning pitcher in the first East-West All-Star Game in 1933, and was on the All-Star team again in 1934.

The team operated independently again until 1932, when Posey organized the ill-fated East-West League ; that league also collapsed before completing its first and only season.

East-West Airlines was the second Indian private scheduled airline ( Continential Aviation was the first ) to take off the ground after the Open Skies policy was announced in 1991.

At first a haphazard form of power sharing, this eventually settled on an East-West administrative division between the Western Roman Empire ( centered on Rome, but now usually presided from other seats of power such as Trier, Milan, and especially Ravenna ), and the Eastern Roman Empire ( with its capital initially in Nicomedia, and later Constantinople ).

The first time a hand is played, one partnership from Team A takes the North-South cards and one partnership from Team B takes the East-West cards ; when the hand is played again, it is played by the other two partnerships, but this time with Team A holding the East-West cards and Team B holding the North-South cards.

Rothchild also produced the band's second album, East-West, one of the most influential albums of the 60's and the first example of what became acid rock.

Pronounced " Sahwah " by the local people, San Juan is the first major along the East-West Corridor by maxi-taxis and buses.

* East-West Airlines ( India )-a now defunct Indian airline, India's first privately owned.

East-West, already in 1981 in an era still governed by the Two Airlines Policy, became the first " third " carrier operating between Sydney and Canberra.

This was the first time a Pope had visited a predominantly Eastern Orthodox country since the East-West Schism in 1054, the event that separated Eastern Orthodoxy and Western Catholicism.