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Cold_War《冷战风云录》

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  • 中文片名 ：冷战风云录
  • 中文系列名：
  • 英文片名 ：Cold War
  • 英文系列名：CNN Presents
  • 电视台 ：CNN
  • 地区 ：美国
  • 语言 ：英语
  • 时长 ：45 min/episode
  • 版本 ：TV
  • 发行时间 ：1998

Cold War is a twenty-four episode television documentary series about the Cold War that aired in 1998. It features interviews and footage of the events that shaped the tense relationships between the Soviet Union and the United States.

The series was produced by Pat Mitchell and Jeremy Isaacs, who had earlier in 1973 produced the World War II documentary series The World at War in a similar style. Ted Turner funded the series as a joint production between the Turner Broadcasting System and the BBC, and was first broadcast on CNN in the United States and BBC Two in the United Kingdom. Writers included Hella Pick, Jeremy Isaacs, Lawrence Freedman, Hugh O’Shaughnessy and Germaine Greer. Kenneth Branagh was the narrator, and Carl Davis (who also collaborated with Isaacs with The World at War) composed the theme music. Each episode would feature historical footage and interviews from both significant figures and others who had witnessed particular events.

After the series had been broadcast on TV it was released as a set of twelve (NTSC) or eight (PAL) VHS cassettes. The series has never been released on DVD. The mini-site dedicated to the series, which was located at cnn.com/ColdWar, has disappeared in 2009. A reason given for the site taken off by a CNN representative was that its 10 year agreement to the information was up.

Once allies against HItler, the Soviet Union and the United States confront each other at the end of World War II. Looming over the postwar landscape is the awesome, mushroom-shaped cloud of the atomic bomb.

Deals with Relations between USSR & US through World War II

In the months following their victory in World War II, the alliance between the Soviet Union and the West quickly proves to be little more than a marriage of convenience. Suspicion clouds relations – while a curtain descends over Europe.

Deals with start of Cold War

With hunger and discontent plaguing postwar Europe, the U.S. proposes an aid program to rebuild the ruined continent. But the Marshall Plan also solidifies the deep ideological differences between East and West.

Three years after the end of World War II, the Nazis’ former capital, Berlin, would once again find itself the target of an allied air fleet. This time, the air armada was working to save, rather than destroy, the city.

It was one of the few times the Cold War went hot. The conflict on the Korean peninsula claimed millions of lives, and set the stage for the way both sides would view each other for years to come.

As the Cold War intensifies, so do fears in the Soviet Union and the United States of outside influences – prompting massive campaigns to purge the “enemy within.”

In 1953, the death of Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin creates a power vacuum in the Kremlin’s leadership. It also unleashes a wave of unrest in Eastern Europe, as some Soviet satellites test the limits of Moscow’s tolerance.

The Soviet atomic bomb gives birth to a new arms race – which turns into a space race. But any promising technological advances are overshadowed by the threat of long-range nuclear destruction.

For years, West Berlin was an escape route for East Germans seeking to flee communism. But growing Cold War tensions forced the Soviet bloc to erect a deadly blockade across the city – a Wall that divided Berlin for nearly three decades

The emergence of a communist government in Cuba heightens Cold War tensions – and for several terrifying days brings the world to the brink of nuclear war.

It was a conflict that devastated one nation and divided another. Vietnam brought a new dimension to the Cold War – and forced the United States to rethink its goals in the superpower rivalry.

With Cold War tensions heightening at the start of the 1960s, the superpowers are drawn into an escalating arms race. The world’s safety depends on a nuclear paradox known as “mutual assured destruction.

In the 1960s the United States claimed its place as the world’s leading defender against communism. But by the end of the decade, the nation was convulsed by dissent, riot, assassination and an increasingly unpopular war.

In the 1960s, as dissent and protest swept through the West, nations of the Warsaw Pact were experimenting with reforms. But hopes for change were crushed by palace coups and, in the case of Czechoslovakia, outright invasion

Chinese communists win the longest civil war in the 20th century. At first, Mao Tse-tung moves cautiously with popular land reforms. But in 1956 he adopts a series of catastrophic measures, the “Great Leap Forward.” Meanwhile, China maintains an uneasy relationship with its fellow communists in the Soviet Union. In 1960, they split, paving the way for Richard Nixon’s historic trip to Beijing.

North Vietnamese troops overwhelm U.S.-backed forces in the South. The United States steps up its bombing campaign but seeks peace through diplomacy. After tortuous negotiations, the United States abandons Vietnam to pursue a thaw in the Cold War. The era of détente has begun

Trying to gain ground in the Cold War, East and West choose sides in battles around the world. In the Middle East, the United States arms Israel, while the U.S.S.R. arms Syria and Egypt. In Africa, Moscow exploits nationalist, anti- colonial struggles, while Washington backs corrupt, right- wing dictatorships in its effort to contain communism.

Fearing the spread of communism in its own hemisphere, the United States supports right-wing regimes throughout Latin America. The CIA secretly tries to destabilize left-leaning governments: in 1954 it helps overthrow Guatemala’s president; in 1973, Chile’s president. In the 1980s, Washington supports right-wing extremists in El Salvador and counterrevolutionary guerrillas in Nicaragua.

The spirit of détente ebbs. The issue of human rights – rights guaranteed by the Helsinki accords yet violated by the Soviets – drives another wedge between East and West. SALT II appears to end the escalation, but when the Soviets invade Afghanistan, détente is history.

December 1979: The Soviet Union invades Afghanistan. The Kremlin finds itself mired in a Vietnam-style conflict causing dissatisfaction at home and hastening the end of the Cold War.

Spies become the foot soldiers of the Cold War. Soviet spies fire the first shots by stealing atomic secrets from Los Alamos during World War II. The KGB maintains its advantage after the war, using moles in British intelligence. The United States fights back with technology. Yet, human spies remain important. Sometimes betrayers, sometimes betrayed, many spies pay with their lives.

President Ronald Reagan raises the stakes in the arms race: he boosts U.S. defense spending and proposes the Strategic Defense Initiative, an anti- missile system in space. Soviet Premier Mikhail Gorbachev knows the Soviets can’t keep up.

Focus on Reagan & Gorbachev Negotiations

The dominoes fall in the Cold War. Suddenly and incredibly, the Soviet bloc breaks up: first Poland, then Hungary, and then East Germany slip away from communist control. Amid frenzied jubilation in the streets, the hated Berlin Wall comes down.

Deals with Collapse of Soviet Empire

The United States and its allies prove stronger; the Soviet Union implodes. Germany is reunified, and former Soviet satellites embark on a new path of free markets and uncertain futures. The Cold War ends without the use of nuclear weapons. Will the world’s luck hold?

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