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Crash course world history. Season 1, Episode 39, USA vs USSR Fight! The Cold War / directed by Stan Muller ; produced by Stan Muller.
- Format:
- Video
- Series:
- Academic Video Online
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Cold War.
- World politics--1945-1989.
- World politics.
- Economic history--1945-.
- Economic history.
- International relations--History--20th century.
- International relations.
- Nuclear weapons--Soviet Union.
- Nuclear weapons.
- Nuclear weapons--United States.
- Communism--Soviet Union--History.
- Communism.
- Capitalism--United States--History.
- Capitalism.
- Soviet Union--Foreign relations--United States.
- Soviet Union.
- United States--Foreign relations--Soviet Union.
- United States.
- Genre:
- Educational films.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (12 minutes)
- Other Title:
- USA vs USSR Fight! The Cold War
- Place of Publication:
- [Place of publication not identified] : Crash course world history, 2020.
- Language Note:
- In English.
- System Details:
- video file
- Summary:
- In which John Green teaches you about the Cold War, which was occasionally hot, but on average, it was just 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.
- Notes:
- Title from resource description page (viewed January 20, 2022).
- OCLC:
- 1296405083
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