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Description: The Cold War defined the half century following WWII. Historians have argued its origin for decades. There is no clear answer. It all depends on not only how you define the Cold War and its beginning, but also your entire historical perspective. Are you a triumphal nationalist (orthodoxy), a condemning activist (revisionism), see a false dichotomy here (post-revisionism), or even go beyond such modern categorizations? Answering why the Cold War started defines how you see international politics today. Project MAD playlist: youtube.com/playlist?list=PLjnwpaclU4wXW18I7joPDPXmfL1zepBNv ------------------------------------------------------------ See pinned comment and its replies for references, notes, responses, and errata since they can't fit here - but here is my paper on the British decision to intervene into the Russian Civil War: docs.google.com/document/d/1ry4Uvv4ikeXJSWvyS0cpHcVHDFejHPUzB--euXWZgOc/edit?usp=sharing ------------------------------------------------------------ Connected videos: state rivalries: youtube.com/playlist?list=PLjnwpaclU4wVUfT9O-wI-T5W2ZCRCGcTL Great Depression lecture: youtu.be/tI6V2vKiXcM WWII lecture: youtu.be/hQZSAbiK2Cs Cold War lecture: youtu.be/m4Dfe-gn_Fs Russian Intervention: youtu.be/1mC1bmzbgxY Aftermath of WWI: youtu.be/G3vKUgoTghg 1919 Red Scare: youtu.be/S4Pi2nYcYNw nuclear near misses: youtu.be/mVIFmAae_8w Afghanistan causation: youtu.be/7Nwe0ehW2nY 2nd Great Awakening lecture: youtu.be/0AwHLRqX3Qk United States Postal Service: youtu.be/xu2RyBVC-Gk Orthodoxy vs Revisionism: youtu.be/xQGs3eYxGRw ------------------------------------------------------------ SUBSCRIBE FOR MORE VIDEOS: youtube.com/subscription_center?add_user=CynicalCypher88 Support the channel through PATREON: patreon.com/CynicalHistorian or by purchasing MERCH: teespring.com/stores/the-cynical-historian LET'S CONNECT: Twitch: twitch.tv/cynicalhistorian Facebook: facebook.com/cynicalcypher88 Subreddit: reddit.com/r/CynicalHistory Discord: discord.gg/Ukthk4U Twitter: twitter.com/Cynical_History ------------------------------------------------------------ Chapters: 0:00 pertinent questions 5:28 defining origins 12:18 counterarguments 16:08 post-revisionism wins 17:01 going through the timeline 31:26 conclusion 32:42 outtakes Wiki: The Cold War originated in the breakdown of relations between the United States and the Soviet Union and their respective allies, the Western Bloc and the Eastern Bloc, in the years 1945–1949. The origins derive from diplomatic (and occasional military) confrontations stretching back decades, followed by the issue of political boundaries in Central Europe and non-democratic control of the East by the Soviet Army. In the 1940s came economic issues (especially the Marshall Plan) and then the first major military confrontation, with a threat of a hot war, in the Berlin Blockade of 1948–1949. By 1949, the lines were sharply drawn and the Cold War was largely in place in Europe.[1] Outside Europe, the starting points vary, but the conflict centered on the US' development of an informal empire in Southeast Asia in the mid-1940s.[2] Events preceding World War II and even the Communist takeover of Russia in 1917, underlay older tensions between the Soviet Union, European countries and the United States. ------------------------------------------------------------ Hashtags: #history #ProjectMAD #ColdWar