79. The Unspeakable Things That Happened During The Cold War | A Day In History

The Cold War was the period of great tension between the United States and the Soviet Union, which lasted from 1945 until the fall of the Soviet Union, or "USSR," in 1991. The greatest fear of the Cold War period was that tensions between the two superpowers would become so great that the "war" between the two rival nations would turn "hot" and lead to a nuclear exchange that would end human civilization. We're about to tell you about some of the secret experiments and plans carried out by the United States during the Cold War, but before we do that, we'd like to tell you exactly how close the world came to destruction in the Cold War era. There were several instances when the USA threatened or hinted at the use of nuclear weapons, but these threats involved another world power, Communist China, and involved the Korean War and China's actions towards the government of the Nationalist Chinese (and a US ally) in the 1950s. During the Cuban Missile Crisis, US president Kennedy announced an American naval blockade around the island of Cuba to prevent the Russians from installing additional nuclear missiles there. Tensions got so high that Kennedy warned the Soviets that: "...It shall be the policy of this nation to regard any nuclear missile launched from Cuba against any nation in the Western Hemisphere as an attack by the Soviet Union on the United States, requiring a full retaliatory response upon the Soviet Union." Tensions remained high for days until the Soviets agreed to remove the missiles from Cuba in return for the removal of the blockade and the nonpublicized removal of US missiles from the territory of its NATO partner, Turkey, which bordered the USSR.#coldwar #history #ussr #sovietunion #coldwardocumentaryTimecode:00:00 Intro00:42 The Nuclear War Scare06:17 MKUltra09:32 Sex and the CIA11:19 The Vanderbilt pregnancy experiments12:48 Let's not leave the Russians outMusic: Motionarray.com Copyright © 2021 A Day In History. All rights reserved.DISCLAIMER: All materials in these videos are used for entertainment purposes and fall within the guidelines of fair use. No copyright infringement intended. If you are, or represent, the copyright owner of materials used in this video, and have an issue with the use of said material, please send an email to [email protected] by ⁠PodcastPayouts.com⁠ ------------- Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices