Crash Course World History - Season 1 Episode 39 USA vs USSR Fight! The Cold War
In which John Green teaches you about the Cold War, which was occasionally hot, but on average, it was cool. In the sense of its temperature. It was by no means cool, man. After World War II, there were basically two big geopolitical powers left to divide up the world. And divide they did. The United States and the Soviet Union divvied up Europe in the aftermath of the war, and then proceeded to spend the next 45 years fighting over the rest of the world. It was the great ideological struggle, with the US on the side of capitalism and profit, and the USSR pushing Communism, so-called. While both sides presented themselves as the good guy in this situation, the reality is that there are no good guys. Both parties to the Cold War engaged in forcible regime changes, built up vast nuclear arsenals, and basically got up to dirty tricks. If you had to pick a bad guy though, I would point out that the USSR had no intention of brining Laika the Cosmonaut Dog home alive.
Year: 2015
Genre: Documentary
Country: United States of America
Studio: YouTube
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Cast: John Green
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First Air Date: Jan 26, 2012
Last Air date: Apr 04, 2015
Season: 2 Season
Episode: 72 Episode
Runtime: 12 minutes
IMDb: 6.70/10 by 3.00 users
Popularity: 9.775
Language: English
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