Love, Hate & Propaganda: The Cold War Turning Up the Heat (Season 1, Episode 2)
TV Episode | 45 min | Documentary, History, War

Love, Hate & Propaganda: The Cold War

Turning Up the Heat (Season 1, Episode 2)

TV Episode | 45 min | Documentary, History, War

In the mid 1950s, much of the direct battle between the US and the Soviet Union was not through contact, but non-contact, namely not allowing anything that represented the other to enter the country. As such, the Soviet regime banned ...See moreIn the mid 1950s, much of the direct battle between the US and the Soviet Union was not through contact, but non-contact, namely not allowing anything that represented the other to enter the country. As such, the Soviet regime banned something they thought was uniquely American: jazz music. But the new Soviet leader, Nikita Khrushchev, wanted to show the world that his country was not as repressive as many in the west believed. So he hosted the World Youth Festival in Moscow in 1957, inviting youth from around the world to have a basically western styled party. This opened the floodgates of Soviet youth being exposed to western trappings, including jazz music, which he could not suppress in its entirety following. Over the subsequent few years, this would lead to greater contact between the Soviet and US political leaders - much of it through sanctioned nationalistic trade shows - culminating in a propaganda war over of all things the washing machine. Another battleground was the space race, which was seen as synonymous to the arms race. On earth, two emerging areas were also becoming battlegrounds. One was Africa, where a plethora of newly independent countries were looking for financial support and guidance from the two superpowers. The other was Latin America, first specifically in Guatemala, where the United Fruit Company, an American company controlling commercial trade in Guatemala through the export of bananas, launched a Madison Avenue developed publicity campaign to show its newly elected government as being Communist, even though its policies were not Communist but rather anti-United Fruit. Although this campaign would succeed, it would lead to two anti-Imperialist revolutionaries, Ernesto 'Che' Guevara and Fidel Castro, being able to seize control of the government in Cuba. Castro was not Communist but Nationalist, which many Americans believe to be one in the same. Because of the deterioration of relations between Castro and the US, Castro turned to the Soviet Union for support, when Cuba truly became a Communist country. This battleground contained perhaps the tensest days of the Cold War, most specifically the Cuban Missile Crisis. And a traditional battleground re-emerged when the Soviet regime restricted travel between east and west with the sudden and surprise erection of the Berlin Wall. Written by Huggo See less

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27 cast members

Name	Known for
Catherine Mercier Elle-même - Animatrice Elle-même - Animatrice See fewer	La Semaine verte (1970)
George Stroumboulopoulos Self - Host Self - Host See fewer	Hobo with a Shotgun (2011)
Maxim Matusevich Self - Professor of World History, Seaton Hall University Self - Professor of World History, Seaton Hall University See fewer	Love, Hate & Propaganda: The Cold War (2011)
Kenneth Osgood Self - Author of 'Total Cold War' Self - Author of 'Total Cold War' See fewer	Love, Hate & Propaganda: The Cold War (2011)
Steve Bittner Self - Professor of Russian / Soviet History, California State University Self - Professor of Russian / Soviet History, California State University See fewer	Love, Hate & Propaganda: The Cold War (2011)
Nick Rutter Self - Ph.D. Candidate, Yale University Self - Ph.D. Candidate, Yale University See fewer	Love, Hate & Propaganda: The Cold War (2011)
David Welch Self - Director of the Centre for the Study of Propaganda and War, University of Kent Self - Director of the Centre for the Study of Propaganda and War, University of Kent See fewer	We Have Ways of Making You Think (1992)
Luis Van Isschot Self - Post-Doctoral Studies, City University of New York Self - Post-Doctoral Studies, City University of New York See fewer	Love, Hate & Propaganda: The Cold War (2011)
Margaret Peacock Self - History Professor, University of Alabama Self - History Professor, University of Alabama See fewer	Couchman (1989)
George White Self - Professor of US Foreign Policy to Africa, City University of New York Self - Professor of US Foreign Policy to Africa, City University of New York See fewer	Love, Hate & Propaganda: The Cold War (2011)
Bayo Akinfemi Actor (voice) Actor (voice) See fewer	Bob Hearts Abishola (2019)
Carlos Diaz Actor (voice) Actor (voice) See fewer	Repo Men (2010)
Michael Kanevsky Actor (voice) (as Michael Kanev) Actor (voice) (as Michael Kanev) See fewer	Saint Ralph (2004)
Daniel Matmor Actor (voice) Actor (voice) See fewer	The Mangler (1995)
Michael Rhoades Actor (voice) Actor (voice) See fewer	Hollywoodland (2006)
Martin Roach Actor (voice) Actor (voice) See fewer	The Shape of Water (2017)
Marni Van Dyk Actress (voice) Actress (voice) See fewer	I Am Not a Weird Person (2014)
Louis Armstrong Self - Jazz Musician (archive footage) Self - Jazz Musician (archive footage) See fewer	High Society (1956)
Fidel Castro Self - Cuban Prime Minister (archive footage) Self - Cuban Prime Minister (archive footage) See fewer	Araaayyyyy!!! (1986)
Dwight D. Eisenhower Self - US President (archive footage) Self - US President (archive footage) See fewer	Nazi Concentration and Prison Camps (1945)
Ernesto 'Che' Guevara Self - Revolutionary (archive footage) Self - Revolutionary (archive footage) See fewer	The Motorcycle Diaries (2004)
John F. Kennedy Self - US President (archive footage) Self - US President (archive footage) See fewer	Profiles in Courage (1964)
Nikita Khrushchev Self - Soviet Premier (archive footage) Self - Soviet Premier (archive footage) See fewer	This Hour Has Seven Days (1964)
Maria Mininson Self - Bomb Shelter Honeymooner (archive footage) Self - Bomb Shelter Honeymooner (archive footage) See fewer
Melvin Mininson Self - Bomb Shelter Honeymooner (archive footage) Self - Bomb Shelter Honeymooner (archive footage) See fewer
Richard Nixon Self - US Vice President (archive footage) Self - US Vice President (archive footage) See fewer	Frost/Nixon (2008)
Ronald Reagan Self - Actor (archive footage) Self - Actor (archive footage) See fewer	Kings Row (1942)