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Zero Hour - Origins of THE COLD WAR
The origins of the Cold War can be traced back to World War 1 and World War 2. In the final months of World War 2, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Winston Churchill and Joseph Stalin already started to work on a post-war order for the world....
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The Korean War - THE COLD WAR Turns Hot!
Not so long after World War 2, the Cold War had its first very hot conflict. After the separation of Korea into a communist north and a pro-western south, the stage was set for war. A war that escalated quickly and brought new...
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Proxy War in Nicaragua - US-Arms Deals with Iran I THE COLD WAR
Nicaragua is a perfect example of a small Latin American country being under crossfire by super powers. During the Cold War Communism seems a viable option for Nicaragua and the so called Sandinistas get to power. The CIA and later...
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Turning Point of the Vietnam War - The Tet Offensive I THE COLD WAR
The Vietnam War is the most prominent of the proxy wars during the Cold War. The turning point in the conflict was the Tet Offensive. A huge attack by the viet cong in various cities of South Vietnam. It completely took the US- and South...
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X-Men, Star Trek and Lord of the Rings - Cold War Culture I THE COLD WAR
What do Wolverine, Mr. Spock and Gandalf have in common? Their creators were all children of the Cold War during which arts and culture underwent a fundamental change. Comics, Science Fiction and Fantasy were born and became accepted...
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On the Pitch and in Space - The Contest of Ideologies I THE COLD WAR
The Cold War certainly happened on a multitude of fronts like sports, science and of course the military. Each super power had to prove that their ideology was superior through advancements in science or medals during the Olympic Games....
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The Iron Curtain has Descended And Germany Gets Divided I THE COLD WAR
The agreements made late during World War 2 were soon to become obsolete when the USSR and the Allies couldn't agree on the economic future of Germany. After the US further alienated Joseph Stalin with the Truman Doctrine and the...
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The Doomsday Clock is Ticking! - THE COLD WAR Arms Race
If it's 5 to 12, it's certainly time to do something to avoid a catastrophe. That metaphor is actually based on the doomsday clock, an imaginary clock set up by scientists during the Cold War to remind us how close we were to mutually...
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The Soviet Master Spy - Rudolf Abel I THE COLD WAR
Trenchcoats, bugs and secret agents are things we all know from the movies. But the Cold War was a busy time for spies from the USA and the Soviet Union. The USSR sent a real master spy to New York during this golden time of espionage:...
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The Cuban Missile Crisis And Espionage During THE COLD WAR
Espionage is what we don't know much about but what we instantly connect to the Cold War. Especially, the CIA and the KGB with their double agents were infamous for their activities and were the source of many movies and books. But not...
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Fall of the Iron Curtain I THE COLD WAR ENDS!
The Fall of the Berlin Wall is the event that stands out among the Revolutions of 1989 that ended the Cold War. The peaceful revolution and the German Reunification led to the Fall of the Iron Curtain altogether. But how did the events...
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Cats, Memes and Porn - The History of the Internet I THE COLD WAR
It’s hard to imagine what our world would be like today without the invention of the internet. What it means to our society can be answered in many ways. Based on a project of internet pioneer Tim Berners-Lee at CERN, the roots of our...
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200 Feet Underground!? Experts Discover a Cold War Base Beneath Kansas! | Underground Marvels
Underneath the plains of Kansas lies a military base. Buried 200 ft underground, this base is deemed impenetrable. Take a look inside this greatly kept Cold War secret, and see how it is being repurposed today. #howitsmade...
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Beatniks, Hippies and Free Love - The Counterculture l THE COLD WAR
Following the Second World war, a new generation prospers and they are sick of their parents old certitudes. They despise war and dream of a new world of peace and free love. This episode is all about how hippies, rock music and the beat...
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Weapons of Mass Destruction I THE COLD WAR
"Now I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds." a famous quote from Robert Oppenheimer the father of the Atomic Bomb. The most obvious Weapon of Mass Destruction that most people think of when they hear the term. But humanity brought...
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Fast Food - Would You Like Capitalism With That? I THE COLD WAR
A city that is not plastered with branches of US Fast Food chains is a rare sight nowadays. That wasn't always the case. Fast Food, as we know it today, is a child of the economic boom after World War 2. Taking your new car for a ride to...
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The First Woman in Space - Valentina Tereshkova I THE COLD WAR
Valentina Tereshkova was the first woman in space. As a citizen of the Soviet Union she became a symbol of defeat to the West during the Space Race. As the USSR had not only beaten the USA, by sending the first man, Yuri Gagarin to...
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A Child of War - Invention of the Computer I THE COLD WAR
When Alan Turing built his first computer to crack the Nazi codes of the Enigma with his Turing Machine, he was far from the first one to think of the universal calculator. Even on the German side Konrad Zuse already had built a similar...
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The Electronic Revolution - The Synthesizer I THE COLD WAR
Until the 50s, the production of music was only possible with classical instruments. But during the time of rapid changes after World War 2, the old principles were about to change with the invention of the synthesizer. Follow Indy and...
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Between the Sexes - Sports Legend Ewa Klobukowska | THE COLD WAR
Ewa Klobukowska was a successful Polish athlete and she set several records during her career. When it came to her qualification for the Olympic Games in Mexico City 1968, she had to be tested to determine her biological sex. The tests...
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Hunting the Communists! - Joseph McCarthy l THE COLD WAR
Joseph McCarthy rose to fame during the 1950s fighting communism on American soil. The ever lingering fear of Soviet spies spreading un-Americanism in the US during the cold war hit a nerve and quickly made him popular in the republican...
Religion for Breakfast
The Cold War Origins of "In God We Trust"
The motto of the United States is: "In God We Trust." But the motto is a relatively recent invention, dating back to the 1950s. Why did the U.S. institute this motto, and what does it tell us about American identity and religion?
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The Falklands War - A War for Lost Glory I THE COLD WAR
The Falklands War was based on an old colonial struggle between two former world powers. When the military Junta in Argentina decided to claim the Falkland Islands in the South Atlantic they didn't reckon with Great Britain's Iron Lady...
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Jihad with US-Arms - The Soviet–Afghan War I THE COLD WAR
When the Soviet Union intervened in Afghan Civil War, they created a spiral of violence that is still going on till this day. On the one side the Soviet troops weren't able to gain control over the huge country. On the other side, the...