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The Cold War: What We Saw

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November 9, 2019, is the 30th anniversary of the day the Berlin Wall came crashing down, freeing East Germany from communism, and marking the beginning of the end of the Soviet Union. But wh...

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Listen to The Cold War: What We Saw, a Society & Culture podcast by The Daily Wire. Stream 20 episodes in English, follow new audio stories, and play episodes online on Radio and Podcast.

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20 episodes are available for this podcast.

Episodes

20 episodes

A Pizza Hut Parade | Part 13

Nixon goes to China and in a masterstroke of diplomacy turns a two-power Cold War into three-power triangular diplomacy, giving the United S...

90:52Apr 24, 2020

The Liberators | Part 12

A change of commanders comes too late to reverse the situation in Southeast Asia as Richard Nixon's program of 'Vietnamization' eases Americ...

64:21Apr 17, 2020

From The Jaws Of Defeat | Part 11

Mired not only in the jungles of Southeast Asia but, worse, mired in outdated, rigid doctrine, fossilized tactics, and declining morale, a l...

64:32Apr 10, 2020

Welcome To The Suck | Part 10

You stepped out of a big, air-conditioned silver bird, out into the kind of heat, sunlight and humidity that even Americans raised in the De...

72:25Apr 3, 2020

Cloaks and Daggers | Part 9

With the mechanisms of apocalypse firmly in place, both sides accelerate their efforts to determine the actual capabilities of the other. No...

91:53Mar 27, 2020

To The Precipice | Part 8

Following the Bay of Pigs disaster, and a second crisis in Europe resulting in the deadly grey reality of the Berlin Wall, an over-confident...

52:32Mar 20, 2020

Playa Giron | Part 7

He had grown up a rich kid, believe it or not: the illegitimate son of a millionaire planter and a servant girl half his age. He was named "...

45:09Mar 13, 2020

We Like Ike | Part 6

In the years after World War II, Dwight David Eisenhower was arguably the most popular man on the planet. Ike’s prestige was so immense that...

78:18Mar 6, 2020

Death In The Kremlin | Part 5

Joseph Stalin, the architect and instigator of the 42-year Cold War, has died five years into the conflict. Across the Atlantic, a new Repub...

45:38Feb 28, 2020

The Forgotten War | Part 4

Although the entire Cold War passed without shots being fired between the two superpowers, the Cold War was anything but bloodless. The Kore...

67:14Feb 21, 2020

The Thing Begins | Part 3

So now the board is set and the pieces are in place. In the East, the battle-hardened, seemingly endless divisions of the Red Army, backed b...

57:08Feb 14, 2020

Two Bombs | Part 2

After the defeat of Germany, Joseph Stalin looked at the pieces laid out on the board in front of him with satisfaction that bordered on gle...

39:42Feb 7, 2020

An Iron Curtain | Part 1

World War III — the Apocalypse that never was — started in the same place that World War II in Europe had ended: Berlin. “An Iron Curtain ha...

44:38Jan 31, 2020

The Cold War: What We Saw

November 9, 2019, is the 30th anniversary of the day the Berlin Wall came crashing down, freeing East Germany from communism, and marking th...

2:10Jan 16, 2020

Magnificent Desolation | Part 4

Nearly every single human with access to a TV set watched the blurry, almost surreal image of Neil Armstrong stepping live onto the surface...

95:32Jul 20, 2019

In The Beginning...| Part 3

As the Apollo program finally starts to take wings, learn how the entire program, and everything it accomplished, was actually NASA's backup...

71:02Jul 17, 2019

We Choose to Go to the Moon | Part 1

Take a front seat ride in the Apollo Lunar Module as it makes its historic descent and avoids a near catastrophe unfolding behind the scenes...

64:40Jul 13, 2019

Apollo 11: What We Saw

On July 20, 1969, Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin became the first men to walk on the moon. The mission that got them there, Apollo 11, was t...

1:31Jul 2, 2019