Nuclear armament of the U.S. and the USSR in the 1940s; establishment of NATO and the Warsaw Pact; the Space Race; the Cuban Missile Crisis; glasnost and perestroika in the USSR; the fall of the ...

The Soviets viewed this development as a capitalist plot to draw the nations ... Soviet Communism soon dominated Eastern Europe. The Cold War had begun.

In this episode, they begin by looking at the origins of the Cold War, focusing on the alliances that formed after the Second World War and their conflicting ideologies. There were three important ...

The political backdrop to John Nash's paranoid and geopolitical hauntings included the Cold War, fought not only ... camps -- one communist and the other capitalist -- Nash referred to himself ...