The Cold War

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Our historical documentary series on the history of the Cold War begins an in-depth examination of the Cold War in Southeast Asia by looking at a history of the region up to 1945, including the French colonial period and the Second World War. Shostakovich: From Dissident Musician to State Apparatchik: https://youtu.be/X3bpRkzITp8 The Tragedy of Lysenkoism: https://youtu.be/9RTAcbsQXFE Stalin's Cult of Personality: https://youtu.be/aB8RVCKDiXE How the American Political Parties Switched Their Ideologies: https://youtu.be/SdcreXEWzG0 How the RAND Corporation created American strategy: https://youtu.be/J1mH_O7MzJk The Nuclear Wannabes: Sweden, Brazil and Argentina: https://youtu.be/1LpL6Q1s7TA Israel: the Officially Unofficial Nuclear State: https://youtu.be/dcXSkpRDp2k Taiwan Under the Kuomintang Dictatorship: https://youtu.be/nGYzXNpQclo What Happened to the German and Japanese POWs?: https://youtu.be/JLK1xQV9B84 Operation Paperclip: https://youtu.be/17cNgMpBiWw German Expulsions: https://youtu.be/zyWx4p4hiaY Soviet Education System: https://youtu.be/AD_JwbivtMA How Khrushchev Fed the Soviet People: https://youtu.be/qIZDa7ZcUhE How CIA Used Art Against the USSR: https://youtu.be/EPmomdCzomA How Nuclear Deterrence Theory developed: https://youtu.be/UHIsdbvsuOY America's Secret Nuclear Disaster: https://youtu.be/iXSSCdlTst4 Support us on Patreon: http://www.patreon.com/TheColdWar, Youtube membership https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCCGvq-qmjFmmMD4e-PLQqGg/join ✔ Merch store ► https://teespring.com/stores/thecoldwar ✔ Patreon ► https://www.patreon.com/thecoldwar ✔ Facebook ► https://www.facebook.com/thecoldwartv ✔ Instagram ►http://www.instagram.com/thecoldwartv #ColdWar #TheColdWar #Indochina #Vietnam #secondworldwar #southeastasia #sea **SOURCES** Mark Atwood Lawrence “The Vietnam War - A Concise History”, Oxford University Press, 2008 Fredrik Logevall, “The Origins of the Vietnam War”, Routledge, 2001 Fredrik Logevall, “Embers of War: The Fall of an Empire and the Making of America’s Vietnam”, Random House, 2012 Christopher Goscha, "The Road to Dien Bien Phu", Princeton University Press, 2022 Edward Miller, “Points of Departure - The Global and local Origins of the Vietnam War”, in The Cambridge History of the Vietnam War, vol 1, ed Edward miller and Lien-Hang T. Nguyen, Cambridge University Press, 2024, p. 8-23. Liam Kelley, “Memory, Tradition and the History of Vietnam”, The Cambridge History of the Vietnam War, vol 1, ed Edward miller and Lien-Hang T. Nguyen, Cambridge University Press, 2024, p. 27-43. Hue-Tam Ho Tai, “The origins of the Vietnamese Revolution”, The Cambridge History of the Vietnam War, vol 1, ed Edward miller and Lien-Hang T. Nguyen, Cambridge University Press, 2024, p. 44-65. Pierre Brocheaux, “Ho Chi Minh and the Rise of the Vietnamese Communist Party”, The Cambridge History of the Vietnam War, vol 1, ed Edward miller and Lien-Hang T. Nguyen, Cambridge University Press, 2024, p. 66-83. Eric Jennings, “Indochina During World War II”, The Cambridge History of the Vietnam War, vol 1, ed Edward miller and Lien-Hang T. Nguyen, Cambridge University Press, 2024, p. 84-105. Stein Tonnesson, “The August Revolution of 1945”, The Cambridge History of the Vietnam War, vol 1, ed Edward miller and Lien-Hang T. Nguyen, Cambridge University Press, 2024, p. 106-126.