Synopsis

History Content for the Future

First Air Date: 2017-10-17

Last Air Date: 2017-10-19

Number of Seasons: 1

Number of Episodes: 2

Created By: Indy Neidell

Networks: YouTube

Season 1

Ep. 1: Prologue 1 Cuban Missile Crisis - The Cold War Begins (2017-10-17)

This series follows the Cuban Missile Crisis day, by day. In this initial prologue we explore some of the background to the crisis. During the 1950s the ideological divide between totalitarian Communism and democratic capitalism pits the USSR against the US as both super powers try to expand their sphere fo influence. In parallel a series of misunderstandings and false assumptions heats up the nuclear arms race and sees the US pull further ahead of the USSR in military dominance. The increasing pressure on both sides eventually brings them head to head during several covert operations, proxy wars and, direct confrontations including the Berlin Crisis and eventually the Cuban Missile Crisis.
Ep. 2: Prologue 2 Cuban Missile Crisis - The Cold War Heats Up (2017-10-19)

For 13 days in October 1962 the world came closer to nuclear holocaust than ever before, but the Cuban Missile Crisis didn’t start in Cuba - it had its roots in Berlin, Italy and Turkey, the domestic political situation in the US facing the newly elected President John F Kennedy, and in the USSR, where Premier Nikita Khrushchev had taken leadership of the Soviet through a harsh four year power struggle after Stalin’s death in 1953 .

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