The Cold War has dominated the international scene since 1945, and the causes of the Cold War are still relevant in today’s 21st century.
This podcast will help us understand the Cold War’s legacy and its residuals. This understanding may help us avoid some some conflict in the future.
Below are some highlights of the podcast:
00:35: The beginnings of the competition between the United States and Soviet Russia
2:30: 1917, the Russian Revolution, Lenin, Marxism, and the ‘new’ Soviet
3:34: 1919, the Versailles Peace Conference, and the creation of Eastern European ‘buffer’ states
4:13: Lenin dies, Stalin takes over
5:52: Hitler invades Poland marking the beginning of World War II
8:27: American postwar objectives, Bretton Woods, the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund (IMF)
11:10: the Red Army begins its sweep over Eastern Europe
12:06: the Big Three meet at Yalta to shape the postwar world; the Declaration of Liberated Europe
13.59: Roosevelt dies; Truman becomes president and takes a hard line toward the Soviets
15:01: Stalin’s Doctrine and the Soviet postwar approach; the wartime destruction in Russia
17:03: America’s perception of security
18:15: Article 51 of the UN Charter; the founding of the United Nations
19:12: the problem of Germany (and Poland)
20:15: Potsdam Conference
21:14: the Atomic Bomb obliterates Hiroshima; the Arms Race begins
22:27: Peace negotiations begin between Japan and the United States
22:46: Soviet Russia and the United States emerge from World War II
Photograph by Andrew Kitzmiller.
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