Syllabus Point
An overview, as background, of the nature of the origins and early development of the Cold War to 1948, including the ideological, cultural and political differences between the United States and the Soviet Union; and the significance of the Truman Doctrine, the Marshall Plan and Berlin Blockade.
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George Kennan stands second only to Henry Kissinger as one of the most influential and respected American geopolitical thinkers of the mid-20th century.
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Wars cost a punishing amount of money and, after they’re over, there's the cost of reconstruction.
President Harry Truman's address to the United States Congress, and the world, in March 1947 is seen by some historians as marking the start of the Cold War.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss how the discovery of nuclear fission in Germany led quickly to the development of the first atom bomb in the USA and its lethal use over Japan
HISTORY EXTRA PODCAST
HISTORY OF THE COLD WAR PODCAST
- History of the Cold War Podcast
The History of the Cold War Podcast will cover the Cold War from the period of roughly 1945 to 1991 and the fall of the Soviet Union in monthly installments on the first.
