How the Cold War Changed in the 1950s - Cold War DOCUMENTARY
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Our historical documentary series on the history of the Cold War continues with a video on how the 1950s changed the focus of the Cold War
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Since you started your video in 1949, I feel like a mention of the Soviets joining the nuclear club that year, and the shock it was to the West, should have been included. For that matter, the Brits joining the nuclear club and the US/UK/USSR all developing thermonuclear devices should have gotten recognition as major shifts in the Cold War from the 1950s. I was also hoping that there would be some mention of Nikita Khrushchev's threats of nuclear war against Britain and France during the Suez Crisis, since that caused a huge shift in US deployment of nukes to Britain, Italy...and Turkey. As well as it seems that France's decision to develop its own nuclear weapons has its roots in Khrushchev's threats. 💯
Is there going to be a separate video covering how nuclear weapons and strategy changed in the 1950s? ✌✌
Great points
No kidding?? Khrushchev threatened to nuke Britain and France when they invaded Egypt over the Egyptian nationalization of the Suez Canal?? Why risk everything for the Egyptians?? 😃😃😃😃😃😃😃
@@John77Doe It may have been Premier Nikolai Bulganin that made the explicit threats. In the mid-1950s, there was a huge imbalance in the nuclear capabilities of the USSR and the USA...in favor of the USA...and the USSR was repeatedly trying to make it look like they had more nukes than they really had. In 1955, they had flown their newest bombers in circles over Tushino Airfield to make it seem like they had more of them, and the bomber gap myth was born in the USA. In 1956, the USSR boasted about having nuclear tipped rockets to use on Europe if France and Britain, even though they had effectively none. And after Sputnik went up, the Soviets bragged of all the ICBMs they had, and the myth of the missile gap was born in the USA. It was about convincing the world that they were much more nuclear capable than they really were to appear stronger. In part, it worked great, and throughout the 1950s the US public was in a constant state of stress over the fear of Soviet nukes. But there was a backlash too, because the US just kept spending more and more money on nukes and made better and better ones, and by the time Kennedy took office, the US superiority over the USSR was far larger than it had been in 1955.
Oh my god! The decadence of building homes! They should have made tons of worthless steel!
i hate homes
I'll take my "nuclear" home so my neighbor is 90 feet(27m) away. Live stacked up like rats in a cage if you want, but don't throw shade if you ain't tried it. Smuck.
Either homes or steel have only the value that demand in the population gives to them. Calling steel worthless in itself is ridiculous seeing as it is needed in so many other products, especially in a home. Making Steel just for bragging rights that your industry could make the most compared to others, is stupid when you do not need it and other parts of your economy suffer under the effort to make it. Making Steel that you direly need is perfectly logical and keeps the economy going.
@@Ugly_German_Truths I think they aren't calling steel useless in itself but are rather commenting on the bad quality of steel that was produced through the measures of the great leap forward
@@dragonfly5586 Look at the sample shown in the movie “Huo Zhe (To Live)”, the parade calls it steel fit for making cannon shells, but one look at it and you can tell it barely qualifies as even pig iron.
I absolutely love the graphics at the beginning of these episodes. Especially the comparison of the Statue of Liberty, Coca-Cola, M-16, and a Big Mac against the Russian equivalents. I was born in 1960 and everything from the space race through the Regan presidency triggers deep memories. Those images perfectly defined the world I lived in. And the opposite side defined the alien world that we saw as bent on our destruction.
Now replace the USSR with China and we have the modern day
Thank you for sharing that!
Always worth it to do a "here's what's happened so far" every so often.
Thanks! I good wrap-up of the topics covered so far. I would point out, that if we had to chose one word to describe, where the world was heading at in the end of the 50s, then all crises, changes and turmoil aside - it was 'normalization'. What I mean is, that the immediate postwar time was over, reconstruction was steadily on the way in the east and in the west and everyone had come to realize the old world (as it had existed in the 1930s) is not coming back and the new world - a world of two superpowers, of space race, of nuclear weapons and energy and of emerging globalization - was here to stay for better or for worse. 1950s were a time when new aspects of this new world emerged and by the end of this decade one could already say, a new world has taken shape and it was time to actively start shaping it.
"Nothing Occurs In Isolation" - A brief but truly said statement.
Very well done and cohesive analysis 👏
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Cold War, it would be great if you could do the "World in 1950" recounting all the events that happened in the decade, but on a yearly focus.
My key takeaway from the 1950s: the Soviet Army began its near complete motorization in 1956, so infantry wouldn't have to cling on to tanks like in WW2.
1950s began with Indian-Chinese Brotherhood ('Hindi-Chini Bhai-Bhai') and ended with 'Mf Chinese' and 'Mf Indians' 🤣🤣🤣
Great video briefly discussing global politics of 1950s.
Thanks
Informative video, covering a lot of geographical "hot spots" .
Two of my favorite movies that take place during that time period, "Bridge of Spies" and "The Bridges at Toko- Ri"
Nice how you end each video with that quote from President Kennedy. Reminded me of a quote I read/heard: "People are different, yet the same" Not sure who that quote is attributed to, just someone much smarter than me. Perhaps either one of my favorite philosophers, Yogi Berra or Homer Simpson.
I think it is worth noting that the Chinese Communist Party, in its quest to become the emerging center of the Communist Movement, actively sought to establish an international alliance of Maoist parties throughout the world. This sometimes created comedic efforts for big and small Maoist-oriented groups and actual parties vying, often with competitors in their own counties. Being granted the official “franchise” of the CCP was an important goal for many, especially in the late 1960s.
At that time, largely student movements from numerous countries, notably France, Sweden, and the United States, were strongly influenced, rather naively, with the seemingly ultra-revolutionary stance of the CCP. But as the CCP’s foreign policy inevitably twisted and turned, groups became disillusioned or were summarily expelled from the international movement.
The CCP increasingly viewed the USSR and its aligned parties as social imperialist, and as the main enemy, not capitalist parties or governments. For example, the Cuban government was viewed as a pawn of the social-USSR, and aggressively countered Cuba’s substantial influence throughout Central and South America. U.S. groups, had to adopt this kind of politics as well, risking excommunication.
The warming of U.S. relations through these groups into chaos. China went so far as to oppose the African National Congress in South Africa, essentially fostering its own organization. Perhaps the most revealing and infamous episode was during the Pinochet coupe in Chile , which ousted socialist President Allende. This ushered in a severely violent repression of the Left and trade union movement in Chile. The ChineseEmbassy refused to offer activists, including Maoists, sanctuary in its compound. The wave of mass arrests and executions was well-known. This shocking refusal of shelter is just one example of the kind of political machination that effectively ended its influence on the international Left.
Was that Ernie Kovacs on the TV in the background?
I appreciate this overall recap video. Thank you. The Cold War has so much political intricacy it's nice to get a bird's eye view every little bit.
Stay well out there everybody, and God bless you, friends. ✝️ :)
Can I make a suggestion? How about taking a look at the history of USAEUR up to 1991. I served in the FRG in the early Reagan years. It was an interesting time. Also I was interviewed by a historian working on his doctorate, as part of his dissertation of the history of USAEUR. I sadly can't remember his name. Just in general, I think the experience of service people assigned to FRG and S. Korea during the Cold War would be an interesting story.
Excellent round-up and analysis!👍
I really enjoy the videos on the channel as well as the thoughtful analysis. If I might make a suggestion, you should consider doing a video on the "Dirty War" period (1960s-1980s) in Mexico. It really fits into the whole "Cold War" setting of the time since many of the Mexicans fighting for democratization and more rights end up adopting Marxist ideas which (with US assistance) is met with brutal oppression by the Mexican government. There are some documents that even allege that despite populist/nationalist rhetoric, several Mexican presidents of this era were little more than CIA puppets. It's an interesting theater if you will of the Cold War that despite being next door to the US I think very few people have heard about.
Is this series going all the way to the 1980s?
"What if" the Non-Aligned movement had truly become a powerful force to be reckoned with during The Cold War. It would be really interesting to see.
good video good job
Would love to see a special on the recently departed Gorbachev
I believe the 3rd reich had a big influence with the cold war and collapse of great britain and french influence.
I really appreciate it the thumbnail look at Mikhail Gorbachev, his legacy and influence. I know it was seen as something of a breath of fresh air and a sigh of relief when over the long running competition and threats of war between the United States and the Soviet Union a friend of mine named her first child Mikhail.
Paraguay 1947 ?
That add was wild. I can think of like 20 US presidents that were worse than gaddafi
can't wait to hear the take on the cold war and Africa, namely South Africa and the proxy war agaisnt Cuba, being one who was there.
9:06 "Comprising", not "comprised of".
The US TRIED to take all of Korea. McArthur promised Truman that he could take the entire penninsula but then China sent troops and McArthur was fired when he wanted to use an Atom bomb and argued with Truman.
I love these vids! Thank you!!!
We don't breath the same air, I breath LA air, and you breath your air, my air is more polluted than yours.
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Keep up the good work, great channel. The last time I smashed that subscribe/thumbs up button, I had to buy a new monitor.
Pushed? Tel Aviv was the heart of western interests.
Not Foggy Bottom
Interesting how the middle east is going to side with in the future
Kruschev was for coexistence? Wasn't he the guy pounding his shoe on the podium at the UN telling us that the USSR would destroy us?
He said “we will bury you” in reference to the competition between socialist and capitalist economics and between classicalist and communist politics. It was not a reference to war, although many American publications took the quote and ran with it
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Video on Gorbachev's legacy?
Seconded!
Cia is wild
New episode on Evil. The Brandon. After his creepy speech the other day.
That show on Magellan, does it cover George W Bush?
Obsly not.
They killed 7 million vietnamese, poisoned the water and air for centuries to come, but not one of the 4 presidents involved in that genocide is "evil"... yeah, sure
@@sebastianucero7535 it's easier to see other people as evil I guess.
What do you think? 'Muricans are never evil. 🙄
@@BTScriviner but how can evil kill evil? A house divided against itself can never stand!
@@garrettallen7427 The old cliche: two wrongs don't make a right. GW Bush is responsible for the deaths of hundreds of thousands of Iraqis.
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Imagine being able to afford a house and being given a good college education because of socialism and then spending the next 50 years taking that away from your kids. They could afford a house on basic wage and college on minimum. Wow.
We're victims of societal level parental neglect lol
And yet....🤷🏽♂️
Cuuuuk
@@B727X you're stupid enough that someone pointing out an absolute fact, gets one badly spelled testament to how fragile your masculinity is as what you think is an insult as a response.
You have got to be making your parents suicidally disappointed.
Ahh the 1950s. The time that most sane people want to avoid thinking about and the point in time that absolute psychos want to go back to.
To be fair, it's only white "Christian" Americans who want to return to the 1950s.
@@BTScriviner Right, like I said, absolute psychos.
Why do you keep saying "socialism" and not "communism"?
Because there's differences between both, despite the determined resistance of those who conflate the two with intention.
@@Jay-ho9io communism is one type of socialism that branched out from it.
@@Jay-ho9io well what is the difference?
@@Jay-ho9io Exactly. And "socialism" has become a trigger word for American MAGATs, who don't understand the differences between "communism," "socialism," and "democratic socialism."
@@BTScriviner "democratic socialism" is still socialism.