Name: 冷戰的起源 (Origins of the Cold War)
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- [Voiceover] Hello, David. How are you doing?

- [Voiceover] I'm doing well. I'm excited to learn

- [Voiceover] So, a cold war, and in this case

never actually fire bullets at each other

So never in the course of the Cold War did the

US ever meet the ground troops with the USSR.

- [Voiceover] But people still died in combat.

- [Voiceover] So the Cold War is kind of fought

through proxy wars. And these are wars that are

taking place in other nations, developing nations

of the world where the US is supporting one side,

the case in the Vietnam War in the 1960s.

- [Voiceover] So the US and the USSR aren't fighting

directly but they're kind of betting on boxing matches,

betting on different fighters in the same boxing match.

- [Voiceover] Yeah, but they're not just betting,

- [Voiceover] So now if there are two different

- [Voiceover] So you've got the capitalist fighter

in one corner and he's sweaty and he's beaten,

but the US is behind him with a towel and one

of those water buckets, splashing water in his face,

- [Voiceover] Doing whatever they can... - [Voiceover] Paying his rent...

- [Voiceover] Right. Doing everything that they can... - [Voiceover] Buying him meals, probably,

- [Voiceover] Okay, so tell me about these two

He was Vice President to Franklin Roosevelt,

who had been the US's president since 1932,

World War II for the United States and also

- [Voiceover] So he prosecutes the end of the war.

He makes the decision to drop the atom bomb

- [Voiceover] And in the other corner, wearing a

And for him, I would say the most important

thing that Stalin wanted after World War II

- [Voiceover] So if you remember your history,

- [Voiceover] And if there's anything that Stalin wants

it is not to be invaded by Germany anymore.

- [Voiceover] So he is very anxious to make sure

Russians can continue the experiments and the

shall we say, between Russia and the rest of Europe.

- [Voiceover] And if he does that by kind of shoring up

some puppet governments, in what we now call the

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