At the end of WW2, the Cold War had begun. From Stalin to Reagan, from the Nuclear Arms Race to The Cuban Missile Crisis, from the Berlin Wall to Vietnam and Korea, this is the story of the Cold War. The World would lay divided between two great superpowers, the United States and the Soviet Union. It would not be a conventional war, with the two sides never directly fighting, instead, it would be an ideological battle between communism and capitalism, the East vs the West and the resulting struggle for ideological influence and power. Both sides would stockpile nuclear weapons, with questions over how to use, control and eliminate them becoming central to the conflict. The conflict would come to an end when Gorbachev’s reforms, Glasnost and Perestroika began to unravel the Soviet Union itself. Reformers began to emerge across Eastern Europe, and in 1989 a string of democratic revolutions would see nearly every communist government ousted from power. On November 9th, the most symbolic monument of the Cold War, the Berlin Wall, would come down, and Germany itself would be reunited the following year. The Soviet Union would collapse in 1991, dissolving into 15 independent states, a surprisingly quick and bloodless conclusion to the Cold War, a conflict which had dominated international relations for over 40 years. Timestamps 📽 Introduction 0:00 Intro: 0:11 The Post-War World: 1:06 The Truman Doctrine: 1:59 Germany: 2:53 The CIA: 4:05 China and Korea: 4:54 Khrushchev: 6:13 The Cuban Missile Crisis: 7:47 Vietnam: 9:59 Détente: 11:20 Reagan: 12:35 Gorbachev: 14:18 Other Videos: Apollo 11 - The Moon Landing Explained | Best Space Race Documentary: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AUh3P3ivNbE Fall of The Soviet Union Explained In 5 Minutes: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M16RMXZDG_g The Vietnam War Explained In 25 Minutes | Vietnam War Documentary: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7tNTh6KlXXU World War 2 Explained | Best WW2 Documentary | Part 1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yLHPLWDyHio Greek Gods Explained In 12 Minutes: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ri-AoKE42rw Egyptian Gods Explained In 13 Minutes: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bURNgGA2lzM Norse Mythology Explained In 15 Minutes https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2oxzmJPoRu8 The Fall of Rome Explained In 13 Minutes https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KJz15Y6hKMM Sun Tzu - The Art of War Explained In 5 Minutes https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hz4FNBj1APA Nikola Tesla Explained In 16 Minutes: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ok8JDXSYw1U Left vs Right: Political Spectrum - Explained In 4 Minutes https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JlQ5fGECmsA Genghis Khan and The Mongol Empire Explained In 8 Minutes: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pDyece8CQF8 MUSIC AND VIDEO: Intro and Outro Music by: https://soundcloud.com/ryantothec Video music by: https://artlist.io/ The Life Guide is a channel dedicated to providing interesting and educational content about a range of political, philosophical, economic and historical topics. Whether you are interested in a simplified explanation of complicated modern ideas or detailed information on ancient civilizations and philosophical schools of thought, The Life Guide is the channel for you.