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Films about the Cold War (1946-1991). Subcategories. This category has the following 24 subcategories, out of 24 total. A. Soviet–Afghan War films (1 C, 15 P) ...
After 1947, with the Cold War emerging in Europe, Washington made repeated efforts to encourage all the Latin American countries to take a Cold War anti-Communist position. They were reluctant to do so—for example, only Colombia sent soldiers to the United Nations Command in the Korean War. The Soviet Union was quite weak across Latin America.
In the war's initial stages, propaganda output was greatly increased by the British and German governments, to persuade their populace in the justness of their cause, to encourage voluntary recruitment, and above all to demonise the enemy. [25] Heavy use was made of posters, as well as the new medium of film. [26]
“The Day After” brought discussion of nuclear war and the potential for disarmament to millions of people who viewed it, and became the rare film that “actually became historical text rather ...
Another Such Victory: President Truman and the Cold War, 1945-1953 Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2002. ISBN 9780804747745, OCLC 470193652 [4] [5] The Origins of the Second World War: American Foreign Policy and World Politics, 1917-1941, New York: Praeger Publishers, 1973. ISBN 9780894643200, OCLC 847437948
In a gallery show in 2008, [7] Fiks presented Lenin memorabilia he's collected from eBay, including Lenin busts, small statues, posters, and photographs.Titled Adopt Lenin (2008), he gave these items for free to exhibition attendees after they signed a legal agreement not to put these items back into the market via sales or similar economic exchanges.
The Cold War was a period of global geopolitical tension and struggle for ideological dominance and economic influence between the United States and the Soviet Union (USSR) and their respective allies, the Western Bloc and the Eastern Bloc. It started in 1947 and lasted until the fall of the Soviet Union in 1991.
Dan Einav of The Financial Times states, "Unlike Oppenheimer, the series looks beyond those who actively shaped seismic events to those helplessly caught in history." [3]Ed Power of The Daily Telegraph calls it, "a nine-part documentary series about the Cold War uses Christopher Nolan’s Oscar-winning film as a convenient springboard."