World in 1950 - Cold War Documentary

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  • Опубликовано: 29 ноя 2024

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  • @ForzaStiinta64
    @ForzaStiinta64 Год назад +54

    These kinds of episodes are my favourites because they have a lot of ”fun facts”.

    • @andrewbaker6056
      @andrewbaker6056 Год назад +5

      "Fun Facts" makes me depressed 😀

    • @TheColdWarTV
      @TheColdWarTV  Год назад +12

      They are a ton of work to make but they are very interesting snapshots of a period in time

    • @jaws666
      @jaws666 Год назад +2

      ​@@TheColdWarTVserious qiestion...and forgive my stupidity but was East Germany ever offically recognised by the western allies?

    • @TheColdWarTV
      @TheColdWarTV  Год назад +5

      @jaws666 full UN member status was given to East Germany in 1973 (same time as West germany) by means of Security Council Resolution 335 and official US recognition happened in 1974. Once West Germany's Hallstein Doctrine fell away in 1969, it was just a matter of time that it happened.

    • @jaws666
      @jaws666 Год назад +2

      @@TheColdWarTV ah cool...thanks for the info,much appreciated my friend.👍👍

  • @earthwormscrawl
    @earthwormscrawl Год назад +74

    An interesting Cold War tidbit: In the early 80's I was an engineer on the "Blue Shuttle" project. The idea was that in the event of an impending nuclear exchange, a number of Space Shuttles, under the command of the US Air Force, would launch into orbit with nuclear weapons on board. They were to serve as a second strike reserve. It never got off the ground, no pun intended, because of scattered management and cost overruns. One of the interesting problems was that the Space Shuttle crawler that transported it from the assembly building to the launch pad was designed for the flat terrain of Florida. To be used at Edwards Air Force Base, the crawler would need to have been able to keep the Shuttle level over gradients in the path between buildings. That turned out to be so hugely expensive that it killed the project.

    • @TheColdWarTV
      @TheColdWarTV  Год назад +22

      fascinating...i'd never heard of this until now. Thank you for sharing!

    • @jaws666
      @jaws666 Год назад +2

      Always found it amazing that a country as small as Isreal was (at the time before she captured terrirtory) and surrounded by hostile enemies on all fronts not only survived but took the fight to her enemies and kicked ass.

    • @teethgrinder83
      @teethgrinder83 Год назад +2

      Wow that's interesting! It's crazy, I mean when you were doing that I was likely just born haha (I was born in '83). There are so many stories from the Cold War to be told

    • @teethgrinder83
      @teethgrinder83 Год назад +7

      ​@@jaws666it's amazing for sure but sadly people in Palestine are still suffering greatly from increasing hard-line Right wing Israeli tactics and it's 2023 now

    • @jaws666
      @jaws666 Год назад +1

      @@teethgrinder83 oh so true sadly

  • @Mrgunsngear
    @Mrgunsngear Год назад +1

    Thanks

  • @magellantv
    @magellantv Год назад +7

    Yet another incredibly interesting video on a crucial year in history! 👏

  • @gregcampwriter
    @gregcampwriter Год назад +12

    Christopher Hitchens's The Missionary Position explodes the myth of Mother Teresa.

  • @pbcoop62
    @pbcoop62 Год назад +16

    The Syracuse NBA team was actually the Nats, short for Nationals. They moved to Philadelphia in the 1960's and are now the 76ers. Also, the Lakers were playing in Minneapolis at the time.

    • @benjaminalbright4003
      @benjaminalbright4003 Год назад

      Also it's pronounced Lie-ver birds not liver, despite the city being Liverpool. Still a cool vid!/

  • @johnwatson3948
    @johnwatson3948 Год назад +20

    Another important event was the signing of the Sino-Soviet pact in February 1950 - the alliance of the Soviets with communist China which caused much concern in the US and set the tone for the Cold War.

  • @KomradZX1989
    @KomradZX1989 Год назад +8

    When you began talking about wallets and diners club, was anyone else waiting for him to go into a ridge wallet commercial? 😂

  • @KomradZX1989
    @KomradZX1989 Год назад +9

    You should definitely do a video like this for ever decade like 1950, 60, 70, etc. and maybe even videos for 1955, 65, 75 too

  • @r2crowseye
    @r2crowseye Год назад +6

    I really enjoyed this one.

    • @TheColdWarTV
      @TheColdWarTV  Год назад +3

      Glad you enjoyed it

    • @ciripa
      @ciripa Год назад

      @@TheColdWarTV ...love this kind of episodes, i think every year of the cold war would deserve an episode like this!

  • @alex182618
    @alex182618 Год назад +3

    In the Soviet Union, remote control was never introduced on Soviet made TVs.

  • @willplays7246
    @willplays7246 Год назад

    I’m so glad that these are back!!!

  • @theexpert758
    @theexpert758 Год назад +2

    I love this channel and it's format. Are you tied to indie niedell and time ghost? Both have similar set ups and i love this format quite a bit.

    • @Black-Sun_Kaiser
      @Black-Sun_Kaiser Год назад +2

      They are not. They're affiliated with the same team that produces kings and generals channel

  • @SeoulMan
    @SeoulMan Год назад +4

    29:04 Kamen Rider Zero One, as the first Rider series of Reiwa Era Japan would use the premise of war between humans and man-made robots with limitless potential thanks to advanced AI.

  • @Numba003
    @Numba003 Год назад +5

    Thank you for another interesting episode to listen to. I want to read more Asimov soon I think; I was excited to hear him getting a shout-out in this one!
    God be with you out there everybody. ✝️ :)

  • @bethmarriott9292
    @bethmarriott9292 Год назад +2

    2:54 David: "only 69 seats"
    Me: "Nice"
    David: "Nice"
    Me: 😍😍😍

  • @brokenbridge6316
    @brokenbridge6316 Год назад

    Nice recap video

  • @hanzup4117
    @hanzup4117 Год назад +2

    Good stuff :)

  • @ciripa
    @ciripa Год назад

    Also the year my father was born:))) ....love this kind of episodes, i think every year of the cold war would deserve an episode like this!

  • @utterlee
    @utterlee 9 месяцев назад

    Ohh there are some bits that blink to black on this video, I thought my TV was broken!

  • @mjstbnsn6294
    @mjstbnsn6294 Год назад +3

    Why use a remote, when you can use your kids?😁

  • @Cutondogor
    @Cutondogor Год назад

    Hang on a second! Are you telling me that that terribly smart handset on the end of a long grey cable like a phone wire that let my grandmother change the channel on her RCA TV (black and white, of course) was at least 18 years old at my first memory of it? I'm shocked!

  • @idrathernot_2
    @idrathernot_2 Год назад +8

    Fun fact: Mother Theresa is possibly the most evil person mentioned in this video.

    • @Numba003
      @Numba003 Год назад +1

      Why do you think so?

    • @idrathernot_2
      @idrathernot_2 Год назад +3

      @@Numba003 she would refuse medicine or pain management to the people in her hospital because suffering brings you closer to God, with some accusations that she would do the same with food and water and so on. She had a very specific fetishized take on her faith.

    • @Numba003
      @Numba003 Год назад

      @@idrathernot_2 I don't know much about Mother Theresa other than the fact that she helped the poor in India. Despite her faults, I think evil is probably an unfair assessment. Do you have any good resources you could recommend I read on the subject?

  • @henzohewson
    @henzohewson Год назад

    Woah I just saw this video come up and it looks cool

  • @dice3000
    @dice3000 Год назад

    Looks like your work is cut out for you: episodes for each year until 1991. Good watch please do more!

  • @Tissot1796
    @Tissot1796 Год назад

    Nice.

  • @kuroazrem5376
    @kuroazrem5376 Год назад +3

    The idea that India didn't participate in the World Cup due to the need of shoes is a myth. Indian players had no issue with playing with shoes. They withdrew due to travelling costs.

  • @jamesfleming4511
    @jamesfleming4511 Год назад +4

    The defence production act of 1950 sounds somewhat like the patriot act.

    • @samwill7259
      @samwill7259 Год назад +6

      It's functionally identical, just with differences in technology.

  • @smorcrux426
    @smorcrux426 Год назад +3

    I'm kind of shocked at how little videos you have about Israel, I definitely think you should go back to the topic after a couple of years and maybe redo some of the videos, even though you're already quite far past it chronologically with your videos.

  • @teethgrinder83
    @teethgrinder83 Год назад +1

    I find it so weird that us Scots wanted to play football barefoot-i mean it's really not the best weather to practice barefoot over here except for the summer, you'd probably get frostbite from Oct to Feb lol

  • @stemill1569
    @stemill1569 Год назад +1

    😂I like the I-Robot quote about the rules of Asimov.
    Now look at any robot today and you won't find them.
    Where you find them? In self driving cars. They just crush over people. They just need a NY voice "I'm driving here".

  • @J_Lukey
    @J_Lukey Год назад +1

    Really cool episode. Thanks!

  • @jcl6861
    @jcl6861 7 месяцев назад

    "Unarmed trainig flight". I find it hard to belive such training flights would be conducted right next to the border of your geopolitocal rival.

  • @alannolan5126
    @alannolan5126 Год назад

    32:11 yes do the National defense episode

  • @GoosePad1
    @GoosePad1 Год назад +1

    Republic day in India, adoption of constitution in 1950 was missed perhaps.

  • @andrescorcoll1477
    @andrescorcoll1477 Год назад +1

    URUGUAY NOMA!!!!

    • @debrisking
      @debrisking Год назад +1

      Sí señor!!! URUGUAY NOMAAAA!!

  • @howwitty
    @howwitty Год назад +1

    The Korean war was one of the bloodiest wars in history? Should we not say something more like 'one of the longest drawn out armed conflicts' to reflect that it extends from history up to the current day? Just a thought.

    • @ChineseKiwi
      @ChineseKiwi Год назад +2

      It is implied that it referring to the war up until the armistice.

    • @howwitty
      @howwitty Год назад

      @@ChineseKiwi yes, as was often the case. Given the context, it's clear what time was being discussed. The armistice was in 1953, and the Cold war ended in 1991. So my question was not 'in which part of the 1950's were the Korean people actively engaged in conflict. That's a better question for a video about the Korean war. With respect to the Korean War in 1950, your response would make sense, but that is not what the video alluded to in its general description of the war being "bloody", which is why I asked the question I asked specifically in the way that I asked it.

  • @mohammedsaysrashid3587
    @mohammedsaysrashid3587 Год назад

    Informative, have historically interesting values and enjoyable watching...thank you ( the Cold 🥶 war) channel... many of those information were hidden by former authors from youth generations' eyes 👀 due to political reasons in MiddleEast countries

  • @penuts17
    @penuts17 Год назад +3

    McCarthy was ultimately right about the US state department and also broadly correct in his fears.

    • @bizbe4465
      @bizbe4465 8 месяцев назад

      The issue was he had no evidence. So he was essentially just going. I know, but also I don't know.

    • @jerrywatt6813
      @jerrywatt6813 3 месяца назад

      He had no evidence he could use in court because Hoovers FBI methods were less than legal but accurate plus the Verona decrypts were solid info and were fed to McCarthy so he could shake things up on the CPUSA and it worked !!😊

  • @michealoflaherty1265
    @michealoflaherty1265 Год назад +1

    I wonder was Ralph Bunche's award the start of the long tradition of throwing Nobel Peace prizes at the Arab Israeli conflict. Lots of peace prizes but still no peace unforunately.

  • @gregcampwriter
    @gregcampwriter Год назад

    Later, R. Daneel Olivaw adopted the zeroeth law that a robot may not harm humanity or through inaction allow humanity to be harmed....
    .... and became our robot overlord.

  • @3550rebel
    @3550rebel Год назад

    Always use cash when I can. The bank, and others, then don't know how I spend my money. I really enjoy it when a vendor has problems with cash payments as well!

  • @idkman3463
    @idkman3463 Год назад

    Big 1950s energy

  • @morgan97475
    @morgan97475 Год назад +2

    Would like to see more about the action in Puerto Rico. I was unaware of that. Regarding McCarthy, I think the publication of the Venona Papers in the 1990s served to confirm much of his concerns about Commies in our government. The awarding of the Nobel Prize to Obama completely undermines the reasons for its existence as Obama had done nothing at the time he received the award.

  • @lusankya2132
    @lusankya2132 Год назад

    and the Toronto Argonauts beat the Winnipeg Blue Bombers to win the 38th Grey Cup in what would be called the "Mud Bowl".

  • @padawanmage71
    @padawanmage71 Год назад +15

    “…almost as if those critics don’t know the meaning of Communism.”
    Understatement of the century.

    • @samwill7259
      @samwill7259 Год назад +6

      Most people don't realize socialism and communism are different words, different schools of thought with different definitions and end goals.

    • @chrisbutler1668
      @chrisbutler1668 Год назад +3

      ​@@samwill7259 The same thing with Marxism, Leninism and Stalinism. They have a strong fundamental difference. Marx believed that a faux democratic election was necessary to place socialist politicians in office, but Lenin, after the Russian Revolution, realized that a phony election wasn't necessary for them to keep control over the government.

    • @samwill7259
      @samwill7259 Год назад +3

      @@chrisbutler1668 Many or most modern socialist ideaologies believe in actual substantive democracy. If anything BECAUSE of the direct examples provided by leninism, stalinism and maoism

  • @dawsondixon1438
    @dawsondixon1438 Год назад +1

    What was the bank robbery in 1984?!

  • @pyeitme508
    @pyeitme508 Год назад

    Noice!

  • @bikkiikun
    @bikkiikun Год назад

    Balian of Ibelin should have gone through with his plan to raze the damned city to the ground and leave not a single stone in place... it would have saved the world a lot of trouble.

  • @tizfrreecharm
    @tizfrreecharm Год назад

    1950, the year in which I was born. Big whoop ... LOL

  • @jesseberg3271
    @jesseberg3271 Год назад +1

    Did the Soviets have their own sporting events? Who won what?

  • @bernadmanny
    @bernadmanny Год назад

    Pedant Army assemble.

  • @janlindtner305
    @janlindtner305 Год назад

    👍

  • @98SE
    @98SE Год назад +1

    6:59 lol your mouth is out of sync!

  • @Fire_Score_Maximum
    @Fire_Score_Maximum Год назад

    15:32 and almost sound like they have failed their economics class with none of them wanting to admit it, am I right? 😂

  • @Fire_Score_Maximum
    @Fire_Score_Maximum Год назад

    Nice video, can you do a video on America’s history with immigration similar to the Britain video.

  • @jerrywatt6813
    @jerrywatt6813 3 месяца назад

    Indeed many usaf aircraft were shot down in international airspace near the ussr and some inside soviet airspace conversley many soviet submarines lay on the botton being targeted by the USN during the cold war ! And it looks like the score lies in the USA's favor by a wide margin 😊

  • @_Ben___
    @_Ben___ Год назад

    Holla to all the pedants out there in the comments.

  • @basicallywellfed3453
    @basicallywellfed3453 Год назад +3

    Ah, hate against Mother Teresa, we now know what the political bias is of this channel ;)

    • @bizbe4465
      @bizbe4465 8 месяцев назад

      "Hate" all he did was state what people believe.

  • @josnijsten8731
    @josnijsten8731 2 месяца назад

    Mother Teresa, who loved poverty and who hated the poor. What she loved above all was money; lots of money.

  • @jettjones9889
    @jettjones9889 Год назад +4

    A little too much anti conservative bias in this episode.

  • @jimmyyu2184
    @jimmyyu2184 Год назад

    @24:07 the case was solved by Lt. Frank Drebbin of Police Squad!!! Way to go Frank! (I knew you were good for something, besides parking/running into fire hydrants; making fun of George Kennedy, and slapping OJ down the stadium aisle) 😂🤦‍♂🤣

  • @beepboop204
    @beepboop204 Год назад

  • @shaekeeney319
    @shaekeeney319 Год назад

    Wow. Spoken like a true Canadian. Notice that he never speaks out against Canadian policy or government.....must be a reason for that.... maybe he'd be targeted if he was. Shame...

  • @MultiJesselee
    @MultiJesselee Год назад

    69 seats...nice

  • @MultiJesselee
    @MultiJesselee Год назад

    Mother Teresa converted dying people to Christ against they're will so that way they'd be accepted into heaven....

  • @berniekatzroy
    @berniekatzroy Год назад

    Another great video. Speaking of mcarthyism, we're facing it now but its waning down.

  • @ilabtube
    @ilabtube Год назад

    Thanks