The ENTIRE History of the Cold War in 17 Minutes

The entire history of the Cold War, 1945 to 1991, told in order from real archive photographs: from Yalta and the Berlin Airlift to Sputnik, the Wall, Cuba, Vietnam, the 1983 war scare and the end of the Soviet Union. And why one Soviet officer's no aboard submarine B-59 mattered so much. 0:00 One man's no, 1962 0:29 Yalta and Potsdam 2:03 The Iron Curtain 3:25 The Berlin Airlift 5:06 The bomb, NATO and Korea 6:30 Sputnik and the space race 7:22 The Berlin Wall and Cuba 9:45 Vietnam and detente 11:33 Afghanistan and 1983 12:50 Gorbachev and the Wall falls 14:34 The end of the Soviet Union 15:22 Back to submarine B-59 Sources: National Security Archive, Soviet Submarines and Nuclear Torpedoes in the Cuban Missile Crisis U.S. Office of the Historian, Marshall Plan, 1948 Winston Churchill, The Sinews of Peace, Fulton, 1946 Harry S. Truman, Address to Congress, March 12, 1947 INF Treaty, Washington, 1987