The Cold War (miniseries)

Miniseries analyzing the Cold War in seven parts. Narration tells the story, over video footage from/about the direct topic.

For initial research and plot: wiki/Cold_War + archive.org

The series:

1. Baptism By Fire (the birth out of World War II)

   1. wiki/World_War_II#Axis_collapse_and_Allied_victory_(1944-45)

      1. WWII - Advances_in_technology_and_warfare

      2. WWII - Home_fronts_and_production

      3. WWII - Casualties_and_war_crimes

   2. wiki/Cold_War#End_of_World_War_II_(1945-47)

      1. wiki/Potsdam_Conference

      2. wiki/Eastern_Bloc

         1. wiki/Iron_Curtain

2. Early Years & Early Fears (the roots of the ordeal)

   1. wiki/Cold_War#Containment_(1947-1953)

      1. wiki/HUAC#Standing_Committee_(1945-1975)

         1. wiki/Hollywood_blacklist

      2. wiki/Containment

         1. wiki/Truman_Doctrine

         2. wiki/Nuclear_weapon

         3. wiki/Western_Bloc

      3. wiki/Berlin_Blockade

      4. wiki/NATO

      5. wiki/Chinese_Civil_War

         1. wiki/Sino-Soviet_relations

      6. wiki/Korean_War

3. Measuring Contest (the crises, escalation, and races)

   1. wiki/Cold_War#Crisis_and_escalation_(1953-1962)

      1. wiki/Warsaw_Pact

         1. wiki/Hungarian_Revolution_of_1956

      2. wiki/Berlin_Crisis_of_1961 - Berlin_ultimatum

         1. wiki/Berlin_Crisis_of_1961

         2. wiki/Berlin_Wall

      3. wiki/Space_Race

      4. wiki/Cuban_Revolution

         1. wiki/Bay_of_Pigs_Invasion

         2. wiki/Cuban_Missile_Crisis

4. Proxy Wars (the Vietnam War and ideologically imperializing the third world)

   1. wiki/Vietnam_War

      1. alphahistory.com/vietnam/chinese-and-soviet-involvement/

   2. wiki/Proxy_war - Cold_War

      1. wiki/Decolonization

      2. wiki/Neocolonialism

      3. wiki/Cultural_imperialism

   3. wiki/Apollo_11

5. One Small Step Back (Détente, ending the Vietnam War, and SALT treaties)

   1. wiki/Cold_War#From_confrontation_to_detente_(1962-1979)

      1. wiki/Prague_Spring

      2. wiki/Brezhnev_Doctrine

      3. wiki/1972_Nixon_visit_to_China

   2. wiki/Vietnam_War#U.S._exit_and_final_campaigns,_1973-1975

   3. wiki/Strategic_Arms_Limitation_Talks

6. Testing Boundaries (continued proxy wars in the Middle East)

   1. wiki/Cold_War#New_Cold_War_(1979-1985)

   2. wiki/Proxy_war - Cold_War

      1. wiki/Yom_Kippur_War

      2. wiki/1973_oil_crisis

         1. wiki/OPEC

      3. wiki/Soviet—Afghan_War

7. The Triumph of the Will (Gorbachev’s reforms lead to dissolution; one superpower remains)

   1. wiki/Cold_War#Final_years_(1985-1991)

      1. wiki/Reagan_Doctrine

         1. wiki/Strategic_Defense_Initiative

         2. wiki/Intermediate-Range_Nuclear_Forces_Treaty

      2. wiki/Era_of_Stagnation

         1. wiki/Glasnost

      3. wiki/Revolutions_of_1989

         1. wiki/Dissolution_of_the_Soviet_Union

Original document created 04/28/2015.