WWII, episode 16: The Cold War

About this episode

This episode provides a brief overview of the Cold War as a sequel to World War II.

For the second time, The Blue Collar Scholar completes a course on the Second World War. The first attempt was choppy, and I failed to record every episode. This go round, I feel much more confident that this series is a good, surface-level-yet-deep-dive into the bloodiest conflict in human history. ... In this last episode of the WWII class, we talk about the sequel to World War II. Thankfully, that has not been World War III. Instead, the United States and the Soviet Union spent nearly a half century in an intense, will-they-won't-they "Cold War." But even though the Cold War never became a hot war, it was still extremely eventful. This episode does a criminally-brief overview of the entire Cold War.

People in this episode

Host: Will Reitz

Topics covered

• World War II
• Cold War
• history
• conflict
• international relations

Keywords

• Cold War
• World War II
• history
• United States
• Soviet Union
• conflict
• international relations

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: United States, Soviet Union

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