In this final episode of this season, I will be discussing nuclear weapons and the threat of a nuclear war which hung over the world during the cold war.

The Death of Che Guevara

Jan 6th, 2024 20m 1s

After Che Guevara left Cuba, he would try to led two revolutions in the Congo and in Bolivia, neither of which would succeed. He would be captured by the Bolivian Army and murdered in cold blood but he death, he would become an idea to many yo

Cuban Missile Crisis part three

Dec 30th, 2023 20m 5s

An American U2 spy plane is shot down over Cuba by a Soviet Surface to Air missile. The tension between the United States and the Soviet Union increases but President Kennedy decides not to bomb Cuba. He uses a message from the Soviet leader

Cuban Missile Crisis part two

Dec 23rd, 2023 20m 4s

An American U2 spy fight discovered Soviet missiles in Cuba. The American military chiefs wanted an invasion of Cuba but President Kennedy decides above a naval blockade of Cuba instead. President Kennedy address the nation on television to t

Cuban Missile Crisis Part One

Dec 16th, 2023 20m 2s

The Soviets send nuclear weapons and fifty thousand military personal to Cuba, all without being observed by the Americans. The Soviet nuclear missiles pose a serious danger to the United States. A biography of the Soviet military commander i

Bay of Pigs

Dec 9th, 2023 20m 1s

Cuban exiles with the secret support of the American Government would in 1961, attempt a landing on the south coast of Cuba at the Bay of Pigs. The invasion was crushed by the Cuban Army, President Kennedy would not allow the American military

Fidel Castro in power

Dec 2nd, 2023 20m 43s

When Fidel Castro took power in Cuba in 1959, his mask of being a liberal and a democrat fell. There would be no free elections in Cuba. Those who had fought in the Cuban revolution for a free and democratic Cuba would become the victims of r

1958 Fall of a Dictator

Nov 25th, 2023 20m 39s

1958 saw the Guerrilla armies in Cuba grow in number. The Cuban Army was sent to crush Fidel Castro and his rebels in operation summer, it nearly success but Fidel Castro led his men out of a trap. The American Government turn against the Cub

1957 - The Guerrilla War

Nov 18th, 2023 20m 23s

During 1957, Fidel Castro guerrilla band would grow in numbers, they attacked isolated Army garrisons in Eastern Cuba and the Cuban Army would abandon parts of the countryside to the rebels. Fidel Castro would prove to a master of public rela

Granma

Nov 11th, 2023 20m 5s

Fidel and Raul Castro would form a small army of Cuban exiles in Mexico, to train and return to Cuba, to try to overthrow the Cuban dictatorship. They would be joined by an Argentina doctor Che Guevara, his biography is given. They and eighty

The Movement

Nov 10th, 2023 20m 4s

Fidel Castro in 1952, when Cuba fell under a military dictatorship. He founded the Movement an underground resistance to the Cuban Dictatorship. The Movement in July 1953 launched an attack on a army garrison the attack was a failure and Fide

Cuba 1898 - 1952

Oct 28th, 2023 20m 8s

After the Spanish - American War, Americans dominated Cuba's economy. Elections are often were marred by fraud. In 1933 a revolution brought in a left wing Government but it lasted only a hundred days. It was overthrown by Batista a former s

Dominican Republic

Oct 21st, 2023 20m 3s

The story of Latin America's most brutal dictator Trujillo who govern the Dominican Republic for 31 years and killed 50,000 of his people. Yet even after his death the country was political unstable and in 1965, President Johnson would sent Am

Latin America

Oct 14th, 2023 20m 7s

A political review of the states of South and Central America between 1945 and 1965. Sadly it will be a story mainly of dictators, repression, unstable political environments, corruption and poverty. Power largely in the hands of elites not t

American involvement in Central America

Oct 7th, 2023 20m 9s

American involvement in Central America in the first half of the 20th Century. The story of two countries, in the post war period which the Americans supported coups, one in Costa Rica, which established a stable democracy and in Guatemala whi

Allan Dulles and the CIA

Sep 30th, 2023 20m 55s

The story of the early years of the American Central Intelligence Agency and it most important director Allan Dulles. The CIA go on from a disappointing start during the Korean War to became the oversea convert operations agency for the Americ

Eisenhower and the Korean War

Sep 23rd, 2023 20m 1s

When Eisenhower ran for President in 1952, the Korean War was an important issue during the election campaign. When he became President he tried to end the Korean War, at first time without success but then in March 1953, Stalin died and it wa

Truman and the Korean War

Sep 16th, 2023 20m 54s

For years President Truman had failed to invest in South Korea's defence, the North Korea invasion invasion in June 1950 came as a shock but Truman decided to commit American troops to the defence of South Korea. General Mac Arthur invasion at

McCarthyism

Sep 9th, 2023 20m 40s

The rise and fall of Senator Joe McCarthy, a biography of him is given. Following a speech by him in 1950 he became the most famous anti-communist in American. Hearing he chaired destroy the reputation of many. However when he started to inv

Soviet spies in the US.

Sep 2nd, 2023 21m 6s

By 1945, the Soviet Union had established a highly effective spy ring operating in the United States. Many of their spies were key figures within the American Government, they also spies in the atomic bomb programme, who would pass on informat

Brezhnev becomes Soviet leader

Jan 20th, 2023 20m 20s

In 1964, Brezhnev ousts Khrushchev from the Soviet leadership in a coup. A biography of Brezhnev is given. He would firmly establish his leadership in 1965 and afterwards and remained leader until his death in 1982. During time it seemed tha

Berlin Wall

Jan 14th, 2023 23m 21s

The Soviets bring down an American U2 spy plane over the Soviet Union and capture the pilot, this leads an international incident. The building of the Berlin Wall in 1961, dividing the City of Berlin into two, in order to stop East Germans fl

The Cold War in Asia 1945 to 1965

Jan 7th, 2023 21m 8s

A review of the course of the Cold War in Asia between 1945 and 1965. This review will briefly deal with the effects of the Chinese Civil War, the First Indochina War, the Korean War, the start of the Vietnam War as well as other wars in Asia

Second Indo - Pakistan War

Dec 24th, 2022 20m 13s

General Khan the military ruler of Pakistan decided to go to war against India in 1965. The war began in Kashmir but soon was being fought along the border between West Pakistan and India. Both sides were fairly equal in the air and in tanks

Sino - Indian War Part Two

Dec 17th, 2022 20m 10s

In this second episode on the Sino - Indian War of 1962, I look at the fighting in the Aksai Chin region in Eastern Kashmir where Chinese troops defeated the Indian Army and occupied the region. I also look at the long term effect of the war.