World in 1948 - Cold War Documentary 

One of the sweetest stories coming out of the Berlin Airlift was "Uncle Wiggly Wings," aka "The Berlin Candy Bomber," aka Gail Halvorsen, one of the American pilots bringing in supplies to Berlin. He came across a group of Berlin children while his plane was being refueled, and he discovered that they hadn't seen candy in years. He gave them the gum in his pockets, then promised he would drop candy out of his plane the following day -- they would know it was him, because he would wiggle his wings as he was landing, and as he was tossing the candy out of the plane. From these humble beginnings began "Operation Little Vittles." Tons of candy was donated by US citizens, and it was dropped in a more organized manner., to the delight of crowds of children who gathered every day Halvorsen even dropped some candy on the Soviet sector, figuring those kids deserved candy, too, and almost started WWIII as a result. Halvorsen is still alive at age 100, and lives in Salt Lake City, Utah.

Ah yes 1948 what a good year, Berlin, Middle East and Indian Sub-continent. Nothing could go wrong

George Orwell said that in writing 1984 he was actually commenting on 1948.

The Communist coup in Czechoslovakia and the murder of Jan Masaryk! How could you miss that?

Is it just my impression, or did you forget to mention communist coup in Czechoslovakia? I mean, it wasn't a worldwide event, but it was for sure quite important for cold war in europe...

Famous last words of empire: "We're going to start in South Asia"

I really like those videos that analyze the events of each year! I'll be waiting for the next one, year 1949!

You do a really great job with these videos, good job dude!!!👍

Stalin:I'm a man of steel Tito:I have balls of steel

Another great year in review.👍

All this sport talk and no mention of the Invincibles tour! Probably the most famous cricket series of the era. It is notable as it was the farewell tour by Donald Bradman (cricket's Gretzky, Pele, Jordan, etc), and the only time a side went a full months-long tour of England undefeated.

As an Australian I honestly can't comprehend how you could go through all that sport without mentioning the 1948 Ashes with the 'Invincibles" Australian team and the retirement of Don Bradman.

Fraiser singing button and bows was the best preformace of that song. Still one of my favorite episodes.

Your channel is lovely , is very well documented .

IIRC the original operation name for the RAF's involvement in the Berlin Air Lift was Op Carter Patterson. This was deemed to be giving g the wrong impression to the Soviet Union as Cater Patterson were a well known UK removals company. The name was changed so that Soviets didn't get the impression the British were leaving.

Didn't expect chess references on this channel. Wasn't diappointed

Love this channel! 🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦 We know you are Canadian, so how about some home team stories? The Gouzenko defection, Fred Rose, Quebec's Padlock Law, communist "infiltration" of the Cominco heavy water facility at Trail, the first Canada/USSR hockey series, among many I'm sure you'll dig up.

Not gonna lie .. those shades worn by Tito 2:45 look cool as hell, did it contribute to the souring of relations between Yugoslavia and the Soviet Union? I love these clips by the Cold War though, very educational

Just commenting for the algorithm. Great video :)

Again an extremely well made episode. Man! If I had this as history class...

Great video. You only forgot to mention Argentine Delfo Cabrera won the Maratjon 🏃 race in London summer games. Greetings from Córdoba, Argentina.❤❤❤

1948 - when the Malayan Emergency was declared in reaction to the communist insurgency in that British colony.

Nicely informative video. Maybe you can do something like this for 1953 or maybe some other great year in the Cold War. I would love to hear what you would have to say abut 1989. My compliments to all those who made this video a reality.

RU-vid is really not liking your channel anymore. I have been subbed to your channel with the bell button clicked since you created this account. Yet even with that RU-vid never puts your videos on my recommended videos list on the RU-vid home page. Even though I watch your videos every Saturday when they come out. I will scroll down the list through hundreds of videos and your video will still not show up in the list for me. I have to search for your channel to find your videos every Saturday. And searching for "Cold War" doesn't even bring your channel up on the first few pages of videos. I have to search for "Cold War channel" to be able to find your new video every Saturday.

1948- Harley Davidson introduced the Panhead.

This is how I remember the Universal Declaration of Human Rights was signed in 1948..... "Oh! Oh, yeah a little bit now. Earlier, uh, today Amnesty International announced a worldwide tour to celebrate the 40th anniversary of the Declaration Of Human Rights (cheers). The Declaration Of Human Rights is a document that was signed by every government in the world 40 years ago, recognizing the existence of certain inalienable human rights for everyone regardless of your race, your color, your sex, your religion, your political opinion, or the type of government that you're living under. I, I was glad to be asked to participate and I'm proud to join Sting, and Peter Gabriel, Youssou N'Dour, Tracy Chapman, in a tour that's gonna begin in early September, and is gonna run for about six weeks (cheers). So, I'd like to get a, dedicate this next song to the people at Amnesty International and their idea. So when we come to your town, come on out, support the tour, support human rights for everyone now, and let freedom reign." - Bruce Springsteen, July 3rd, 1988, Stockholm, Sweden This was before he performed a cover of Bob Dylans' "Chimes of Freedom".

I really like the mention of the non-aligned movement during the Cold War. There could be focused effort on just that at some point if you're looking for ideas for future topics. Content around Tito and his working in helping to lead non-aligned nations.

I'm not ashamed to say I never knew Gandhi was assassinated! I am genuinely surprised and almost in shock learning about it just now.

''I can't be satisfied'' by Muddy Waters is my favorite 1948 song

30 min, ouuuu i'm so happy rn

I'm quite surprised that you completely missed the communist coup in Czechoslovakia ("Vítězný únor") en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1948_Czechoslovak_coup_d%27%C3%A9tat

This channel is an entire Encyclopedia

It was a weird time I grew up in the 80’s and 90’s. Before the internet you just believed everything they told you. And it was a climate of like very quiet, subtle fear, like everything was fine on top but you always wondered if a huge bomb would take out your hometown. I do miss the spy movies though. The best thing to come from the Cold War imho is the many great spy flicks.

Great summing-up episode! The Communist Emergency in Malaya deserved a mention, too. If it hadn't been contained, the dominoes would have fallen in the Pacific.

Love you bro. Thanks for the good history videos. I've gotten my girlfriend slightly interested in history.

Great work overall! Just one quibble. Maybe it's just my conspiratorial mindset, but the way the video talks about the "controversy" with Kinsey seems to me to suggest that the criticism is an outgrowth of prudish sexuality. Probably should emphasize that a large portion of the criticism is methodological; when we teach survey research, we use Kinsey as the archetypal example of selection bias in sampling. Thus, if we're going to mention the findings in detail (e.g., 10%) we should probably also mention that the findings, especially their magnitudes, are probably less than reliable. Then again, I'm probably one of a very small minority who triggered by selection bias. ;) Love the channel.

No mention of "Victorious February 1948" in Czechoslovakia? I know you cant mention everything from 1948, but I was really expecting this coup to make a list, as it made my country communist for the rest of the cold war. The most of 19X8 years were important for our history.

I am looking forward to the 1989 episode but I also know that would be the last episode, or will it?

Alpher and Gamov recruited theoretical physicist Hans Bethe to make some theoretical; calculations that it became the Alpher, Bethe, Gamov theory.

Queen's Gambit? yeah, it was very good, especially the musical score..

Dewey defeats Truman

Actually . Greatest missing part is Chinese civil war reach it climax in 1948. Millions of troops fought 3 giant campaign. The fate China as a Communist giant was decided on 1948.

As a chess fan, I appreciate your mentioning chess lol. Thanks for another interesting video on some of the global concurrent events of the time. God be with you out there everybody. ✝️ :)

For the first time there are no subtitles ...

Those voicebreaks though.

Good video but no mention of Greek civil war.

Why there is not possible to click multiple LIKE?

Heart beside Toronto Maple Leafs duly noted, though scarcely earned of late.

Kinsey’s research was definitely not a leap forward unless it is interpreted in the Maoist sense

Big Bang Theory: what about Georges Lemaitre?

1948 in sports would also see the founding of NASCAR and the Cleveland Rams moving to Los Angeles

The success of KIss Me Kate and the Cleveland Indians victrory in the World Series more than makes up for all the bad stuff.

I realised one thing from this episode is that never believe anyone blindly on what they're saying, especially when it comes to history! 🙄

Yugoslav socialism was truly something else, feeling privileged for experiencing it, although briefly. Just to know that different system and world is possible feels awesome. Not without its flaws for sure. The biggest mistake was that as apposed to Italy or Germany, Yugoslav identity was suppressed instead to be nurtured. Yugoslavija do groba.

7:12 China voliateing human right and changing the dfinition of it.

We Wish to feature about the The Death of General Francisco Franco

Maybe put on some shoes for the next episode?

Waiting for World in 1972 video after 24:26 - 25:49

1948, unrest in Indonesia also known as "Madiun Affair" by Indonesian Communist Party (PKI). The government of Republik Indonesia then destroyed this rebellion and this action affected to international diplomacy in next year. Also in same year, Operation Kraai launched by Dutch. This action well known as "Dutch Military Aggression II" in here.

2021: Second year of Corona. It sucked.

The first 5 directors of Gosbank (the soviet union's central bank) were all jewish and Stalin had them all murdered before WW2. Also all the jewish Lenin era Bolsheviks were imprisoned or executed by Stalin.

is Funny how Turkey took the same amount of loan as Greece with the Marshal plan when Turkey did not even participated in the 2 WW not before the end of it . This says a lot for the relationship of western powers and Turkey that led to the todays attitude of Turkey towards the Eastern Mediterranean region and the Turkey-American relations that we wideness lately. More will come ,as still the events of the past drive further forward this relations of Turkey and the rest of the world.

Ah, the year 1984 began

The UN hasn't really done it's job of enforcing the declaration. Cough Rwanda, Myanmar, China !

Gamow included Hans Bethe in the list of authors of the Alpher-Bethe-Gamow paper as a joke. Nerds have the best sense of humor.

Please, less background music! It's distracting and more than a bit annoying. For instance, apartheid in SA is interesting and important, but it's not a battle scene and doesn't need a stirring music score. Really.

After watching almost all of this episodes i sollidified my conclusion that the Soviet Union was always on the right - Left - side of history.

I hate to burst your bubble, but Gamow and Alpher did not originate the 'Big Bang Theory' in 1948. They were building on the work of Fr Georges Lemaître, a physicist who taught at the Catholic University of Louvain, who proposed the theory 21 years before in 1927. Even Wikipedia says of Gamow, 'He was an early advocate and developer of Lemaître's Big Bang theory'. Oh, and about the Winter Olympics. There are only two sports that count, hockey and curling. Canada RULZ!

During 1948 Thomas Mantell a pilot for the kentucky air national guard crashes will pursuing a UFO.

So this is the history or marcus Rashford , Raheem Sterling, or Dwight Yorke?

As much as '48 was cool, it pales compared to its 100 years older namesake

I always find it annoying when people complain about American Baseball, Football (American) and Basketball leagures calling their champion's the "World Chapions". They are called the World champions because they are the best teams in those sports in the world and those claims are uncontested. If another league wants to be created and call themselves the best team in the world it can lead to those teams playing against each other to see who is actually the best team in the world. This happened in Football (American) when the AFL was created. The AFL contested the NFL's claim that their champion was the best team in the world. For awhile everyone knew the NFL teams were the better teams but as the AFL started to get some better players people started to question if the AFL champion could actually beat the NFL champion. This eventually is what led to the Super Bowl to determine which league actually had the best Football team in the world (the NFL won the first 2 Super Bowls). The creation of the World Series in Baseball also has similar roots. There were 2 American baseball leagues that were far better then all other baseball leagues in the US and the world. This led to those 2 leagues playing against each other at the end of their seasons to see who was actually the best baseball team in the world. So if another country wants to start up a league in any of those sports and they actually get to the skill level to compete with the American leagues teams they then should play against each other to see who the real best team in the world is for that sport. But in reality what happens is the best players from each country just come to play in the American sports leagues because that is where they are going to get paid the most money. So when there are great baseball players or basketball players in South America, Europe, Japan, the rest of Asia or anywhere else in the world they all almost always come to play in America eventually for some period of their playing time.

You forgot to mention Korea

For how long will this channel post videos? Because you havent even covered the Cuban Revolution yet so not even a third of the timeline of the Cold War. At least another five years surely, right?

"We didn't start the fire"... wait sorry wrong video

Tito be like: "Stop sending people to kill me. We’ve already captured five of them, one of them with a bomb and another with a rifle... If you don’t stop sending killers, I’ll send one to Moscow, and I won’t have to send a second." Now that's how you deal with death threats! lol

Nice socks.

You'd think a country that spent so much time playing and studying chess, would have applied those principles to it's invasion of Ukraine. Guess they aren't as good as they thought.

The UK is not an island.

Ahh Gandhi.. The Indian peace warlord! If you know, you know!

Was about to scold you for not mentioning the communist coup in Czechoslovakia, but others did that already. A nice summary otherwise.

Put on some shoes

Anti semitism in URSS? NO WAY

Love your videos, really great stuff. However I HATE that you say “abolishment” - that is not a word! The nominal form of abolish is abolition!

The Big Band Theory was created by George Lemitre, a Catholic priest from Belgium.

7:14. The right to property, but apparently not if that property includes privately owned firearms.

Weird how they left out George Lemitre from the Big Bang Theory part, the guy who literally came up with the idea... ...is it because he was a catholic priest?

Very sad, No one thanked the British East India company for their role is proper management of the Indian subcontinent. But anyways, it doesn't matter whether people mention it or not we all know how the British empire took care of the Indian subcontinent. But the ungrateful people chose freedom over chivalry.

You totally glossed over massacres and ethic cleansing of Palestinians that happened in the months prior to establishment of the state of Israel.

辽沈战役打响

Tito the great

1948 was also the year of the creation of the Italian Republican Constitution

sorry brothers... there are historical errors that have been made by Britishers that the Gandhi was behind the Independence of India. It was Netaji S.C Bose who fought against "British Raj" and thus then rest of the royal indian army started mutiny. and if you ask why Britishers spread this, then it's simple. that they wanted to show them-self's very kind and Nobel to ther rest of the world that they left without fighting. huh what a horse shit. anyway can't blame you, it was political matter of that time.

Did he have a cold or something? He sounds different.

The only thing this documentary got wrong is by saying Gandhi was against Partition. In truth Gandhi gave the go ahead with the partition. Please correct this fact.

Lick

1948...and no mention of communitst takeover of czechoslovakia :-/

worst year ever

Who cares about Canada? :)

Your videos are full of indoctrination. I have never seen a single video on internet that mentions that the British held election in 1942 in order to partion of india.